Posted on 01/14/2009 10:28:41 AM PST by upchuck
NEW YORK -- President-elect Barack Obama is on his way to the big screen, thanks to a deal between MSNBC and Screenvision that will put the news channel's inaugural coverage in 27 theaters around the country.
Free tickets are being handed out via MSNBC.com to see the inauguration and parade from 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. ET at the 27 theaters run by 11 exhibitor partners in 21 markets. Midday Tuesday isn't necessarily a big movie time, so it helps to fill the theater -- and boost popcorn and soda sales -- at a time when it's not usually busy.
That means that Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews and other MSNBC and NBC personalities will play the big movie screen in addition to the usual MSNBC cable and satellite stream. MSNBC won't be in high-definition until the second quarter, but both the channel and Screenvision say the quality will still be high.
"It'll look great," MSNBC president Phil Griffin said. "We're thrilled about it."
Screenvision was approached by MSNBC last year about carrying the coverage in some of the same theaters that take Screenvision's preroll video, executive vp exhibitor relations Darryl Schaffer said. Since August 2007, Screenvision has had an alternative programming division that has exhibited New York Mets baseball games, operas and other events live via movie theaters. Schaffer said that Screenvision had the capability to do as many as 200 locations, though MSNBC was looking for a smaller event than that.
For MSNBC, it's a chance to continue the momentum that vaulted it into the fastest-growing channel in all of cable in 2008. That's the strategy, and Griffin said Monday afternoon to expect more in 2009 to build MSNBC's brand.
"We want to reach people we've never reached before," Griffin said. "We're going to do numerous things like that to get our name out there. Ubiquity is the name of the game in 2009."
I’m going to schedule something less painful for that day...a root canal
Does Obama have an original idea? He will probably put it in newsreal of old form.
The sad part is that technically you could be tried for impesonating someone you are not over the internet. There is a law, and it is somewhat draconian if memory serves.
It won’t work unless they show two cartoons.
I’ll be waiting for rental versions of movies if my local theaters do this. F’em.
I registered as myself, are you kidding.
Neither will I unless by some miracle a Nor’Easter blows in and it snows on 0’s parade. THAT would be worth a watch.
Despite all our comments, jokes, insults to Obama, etc., after reading (day after day) the articles posted on this (my favorite website!) and Fox News are getting to me. Has this country gone completely mad????? The media went off the deep end as to credibility a long time ago with this whole Obamamessiah thing... and the people? Well, the best example I can give stemmed from an article shown on foxnews.com yesterday pertaining to media and libs still trashing Sarah (and planning to continue for the next four years, of course). The article allowed for ‘reader comments’ and the one that blew me away was (paraphrasing here, but awfully close) “who cares about Sarah and her retarded kid anymore.” That was it for me — it says it all in a nutshell. THAT is the IQ level (or just functioning level?) of liberal America. Sarah and her “retarded kid.” Out of the mouths of hideous ignorance and stupidity. Can we truly get any lower than that? Does a place even exist lower than that? This is among the breed that created the ‘Obama’ hysteria. This insanity can only continue for so long. Sometimes it’s pathetic, sometimes it’s just laughable, and sometimes it’s downright dangerous. But America’s situation in general seems to be headed on an apparently unstoppable and fast track to somewhere very, very scary.
Will NBC get fined, if Mathews has an O on air?
I’m picturing some thugs coming to my home, tying up my Wife and I, holding our eyes open with toothpicks and FORCING US TO WATCH.
To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.
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Revelation 13:15
“He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.”
Revelation 20:4
“...Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands.”
Was it 57 million that voted against him? Obama and the media act like every citizen in the US just can’t wait for this. It’s sickening.
Movie theaters are the refuge of cowards.
If the rest of the world is not laughing now at these Op’s events they will be soon.
Well at least we know who omamawama loves the most.
Of course they were effective. The media is effective. The insults and slander are effective. The media long ago stopped being ethical, objective, or committed to truth. And the “average American” who relies on the likes of MSNBC to “keep up” with current events is swayed by the hatemongers. My point about the article’s feedback was simply that referring to Sarah Palin’s child with Down’s Syndrome as “the retarded kid” reaches new depths of hideousness, hatred, and stupidity. That example is only one car in what I see as an oncoming trainwreck in this country.
I’ve been reading all the replies to the original post. Y’alls 16 and 17 take the cake :)
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