Off The Record Redesigns Their Set

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‘Off The Record’ the TSN show with Michael Lansberg, recently redesigned their set. It reminded me of the set of ‘The Hour’ pictured below.

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What’s that they say about imitation and flattery?

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  Asides, The Hour with George S. Posted at 8:00 am (27 Feb 2009)



Strombo

This is what happens when you try to add George Stroumboulopoulos to your list of Facebook friends.

Wow. Way to rub it in. ;-)

In the world of Facebook, you’re only allowed to have 5,000 “friends.” People, like Strombo, who are are a public figure and have lots of Internet-connected fans usually accept every friend request as a means of promotion. (Actually, there are four “I’m the real Stombo” people on Facebook. It’s hard to tell who’s really behind them.)

Better to try fan pages instead.

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  Fun Stuff, Personalities, The Hour with George S. Posted at 6:51 pm (17 Jun 2008)



Strombo Timely With The Hour on YouTube

George Stroumboulopoulos has people stopping him to shake his hand in many American states because of The Hour’s popularity due to widespread viewing on YouTube.

The Canadian Press reports that The Hour has been getting millions of hits on YouTube since the show started uploading segments last fall. The Hour is also one of the top video podcasts in Canada on iTunes. Strombo says that the show has a wide appeal since it fills a gap in late-night TV; unlike other late-night shows, it isn’t pure comedy.

Viewers as far afield as New Zealand and Australia are also members of the shows’ Facebook group.

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  Other Internet, Personalities, The Hour with George S. Posted at 1:54 pm (09 May 2008)



Strombeshi: George and Jian, Together At Last

Mark Critch and Shaun Majumder riff on, well, each other in their satire of CBC TV and CBC Radio’s young(ish) hosts. From This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

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  Fun Stuff, Q, The Hour with George S. Posted at 10:48 am (27 Mar 2008)



The Hour and a bit

When is an hour not an hour? When it’s 70 minutes. Yesterday, The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos launched an extended “after show” to its website, adding 10 minutes of exclusive online content. It’s called “After the Hour” and is rather loudly sponsored by Keith’s. Today’s delete scenes include earthworm races, wrestling groupies and Canada’s first android.

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  The Hour with George S. Posted at 11:31 am (04 Dec 2007)



CBC Toronto’s New Recycling Program: A Parody

The crew at the Gemini-winning The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos have put together a nice little piece about the new and, uh, not exactly popular, recycling program which launched recently at the Death Star Toronto Broadcast Centre.

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  Behind the Scenes, CBC Policies, The Hour with George S., The Odd File, Toronto Posted at 3:16 pm (17 Oct 2007)

Strombo wins Gemini for Best Talk-Show Host

CBC personality George Stroumboulopoulos was named best talk-show host or interviewer and his show The Hour was hailed as best talk series at Tuesday’s Gemini Awards.  [more at cbc.ca]

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  Asides, Awards, Personalities, The Hour with George S. Posted at 12:17 am (17 Oct 2007)



Meet Ms. Stroumboulopoulos

No, there isn’t a wedding to announce. Not even a courtship. The CBC’s weather anchor Clare Martin was spotted on the soon-to-be-unveiled Vancouver set wearing a “Ms. Stroumboulopoulos” t-shirt.

Folks at The Hour were so amused, they are now asking people who also own this shirt to post on their blog how they got it.

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  The Hour with George S., Vancouver Posted at 12:42 pm (01 Oct 2007)



Strombotainment?

The always-excellent Ryerson Review of Journalism has published a feature article about George Stroumboulopoulos.

Here’s a sample from it:

The program drew immediate and heavy criticism for dumbing down the news in order to reach younger viewers, but then George isn’t trying to be a youth-friendly Peter Mansbridge. Nor is he trying to be a pundit, an academic or a politician — or a journalist, for that matter.

George is just some guy who likes his music, sports and politics mixed together in one fast, long conversation. The Hour gives that guy the chance to speak with the newsmakers of the day and interpret the news his own way.

Given the roasting George has received so far, it’s suprising to see that — every so often — he delivers an original kind of television product.

What is a little more difficult to calculate is whether or not it’s news programming or infotainment.

I dunno. I’m kind of tired of the boxes we try to put things into. To me, The Hour is more entertaining that news, but far more journalistically sound than what is traditionally known as “infotainment.”

Is there a middle ground here? “Strombotainment”?

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  Personalities, The Hour with George S. Posted at 1:03 pm (23 Jul 2007)



Strombo: ‘I was never offered Canadian Idol’

Despite rumours flying aroung the Internet this week, The Hour host George Stroumboulopoulos says he was never offered the hosting job at CTV’s Canadian Idol.

Strombo told InsideCBC.com he’d talked to CTV about some other shows, but Idol wasn’t one of them.

The speculation occured when several bloggers inferred that he’d been offered the position from an interview he did recently.

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  Personalities, The Hour with George S. Posted at 11:34 am (06 Jun 2007)



The Hour hits YouTube

It’s only been online for hours, but CBC Television’s The Hour channel on YouTube has already had 14,000 visits. (Though they joined the site last year, it’s only been the last day when the channel went live.)

If you miss some of The Hour now you can watch clips on youtube.com/thehour

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  On-Demand TV, The Hour with George S. Posted at 12:34 pm (09 May 2007)



Great photo of The Hour set

Great photo of The Hour’s set, taken by “Oravino” who works for the show.

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  The Hour with George S. Posted at 5:27 pm (27 Mar 2007)



The CBC in Second Life

It may not look like much but the folks at The Hour are starting to build a little garage in the virtual world Second Life.

I’m Davo Nabob in there. Do say hi. :) (Yes, I’m the avatar in the CBC-logo’ed Superman outfit, pictured to the right.)

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  CBC Widgets, The Hour with George S. Posted at 1:46 pm (01 Mar 2007)



CBC launches first video podcast: The Hour

CBC Television’s The Hour has become the first television show to release its own video podcast. They release new videos every weekday, ranging in length from two- to 12-minutes.

If you want to subscribe in iTunes, click this link. (I’m not sure what the raw XML feed URL is.)

Incidentally, I’ll have some news about a possible expansion of CBC Radio podcasts in the coming weeks…

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  On-Demand TV, Podcasting, The Hour with George S. Posted at 4:12 pm (19 Feb 2007)



Blogging by The Hour

George S. playing pianoWow! The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos has a new blog, and it’s a doozy.

I’m not sure when this launched, exactly, but posting began on Tuesday, and it’s new enough that it isn’t yet part of the show site’s navigation (ahem.) But they’re off to a roaring good start, averaging 7-8 items daily.

On first blush, the blog looks the most… blog-like… of any of the CBC offerings so far. [Say, Tod, where on earth did those CBC blogrolls go?] It features plenty of pictures, plans for the show, behind the scenes stuff, story updates and items that didn’t make it into the show.

According to The Hour associate producer Paul McGrath,

The blog is written by the show’s producers, the writers and George (although not everyone has written posts). The idea was to give access to anyone on the show that wanted it and let them post what they felt like….

In the future people can expect quite a bit more content on the blog, George will be making a few posts, we’ll have more behind the scenes of the show, photos of celebrities and newsmakers that are on The Hour, there’ll be comments from viewers and we’ll get the design up to scratch – it’s a work in progress right now.

Anyhow, it’s a great beginning – interesting content, personality shining through, and a dash of nudity too (now you’ll click.) Just my opinion, but I think this is exactly the sort of thing CBC should be doing – giving content producers a forum to interact more directly with their audience. Check it out!

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/blog/

(But don’t confuse it with The Hour website, or Strombo’s website or the blog there, or his MySpace or The Stroumboulopouli fan blog. This is a blog by and about The Hour. Got it?)

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  The Hour with George S. Posted at 2:39 pm (19 Jan 2007)

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