Rotten Tomatoes Is Launching a Linear Streaming Channel (variety.com) 24
Rotten Tomatoes is continuing on its quest to grow into something substantially bigger than its Tomatometer movie and TV rating scores. From a report: The website -- owned by NBCUniversal's Fandango -- expands its entertainment footprint with the launch of The Rotten Tomatoes Channel, a new over-the-top streaming service that will initially debut on on The Roku Channel. The OTT service will then come to NBCU's Peacock platform and Comcast-owned Xumo, with other distribution deals in the works including with internet pay-TV providers, according to Fandango. The first 24-hour linear video channel from Rotten Tomatoes will loop about 100 hours of premium programming around the clock on the channel, culled from RT's stable or original shows.
With the launch of The Rotten Tomatoes Channel, Fandango wants to expand its audience reach and provide new entry-points into the entire Fandango ecosystem (i.e., to push movie tickets and digital sales or rentals). Some of the shows on The Rotten Tomatoes Channel will include "Countdown," a show discussing the best upcoming movies and shows according to the Tomatometer and panelists; "The Vault," a nostalgic look back at star interviews, red carpet chats, games and more from the Rotten Tomatoes archives; "Trailers Reloaded," recapping the biggest movies and shows with an extensive collection of trailers; and "Rotten Tomatoes Essentials," a look back at movies, shows, stars and directors that defined genres and eras.
With the launch of The Rotten Tomatoes Channel, Fandango wants to expand its audience reach and provide new entry-points into the entire Fandango ecosystem (i.e., to push movie tickets and digital sales or rentals). Some of the shows on The Rotten Tomatoes Channel will include "Countdown," a show discussing the best upcoming movies and shows according to the Tomatometer and panelists; "The Vault," a nostalgic look back at star interviews, red carpet chats, games and more from the Rotten Tomatoes archives; "Trailers Reloaded," recapping the biggest movies and shows with an extensive collection of trailers; and "Rotten Tomatoes Essentials," a look back at movies, shows, stars and directors that defined genres and eras.
Isn't that the site overrun with bots (Score:1)
Isn't that the site overrun with bots and fake ratings? Not sure I trust them to do anything productive.
Re: Isn't that the site overrun with bots (Score:4, Interesting)
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Just not me. But then, I don't have tiktok on my phone either.
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if you still trust these review sites then there is already no hope for you
Why do we even bother selling the idea of a review site in the 21st Century?
Trolls alone destroy most of the justification. Greed fucks up the rest.
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Not only that, Rotten Tomatoes has been caught numerous times manipulating low or negative audience scores to closer match what the ridiculously high or positive critical score is.
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Isn't that the site overrun with bots and fake ratings?
I think you're confusing them with Yelp.
Re: Isn't that the site overrun with bots (Score:2)
WTF is a linear streaming channel?
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See PlutoTV... a bunch of non-existent channels ready to stream to you. They join in progress and change over at the half/top of the hour.
Dead on Arrival (Score:2, Insightful)
Why?
Because watch what you want, when you want is what people want.
Overwhelmingly.
Maybe they're going to cater to the over-60's crowd who have been trained their entire lives by broadcast TV and can't think on their own?
Problem is, that demographic isn't going to be the ones to boot up a computer and start watching videos on rotten tomatoes.
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You really been programmed to believe that tripe?
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Maybe they're going to cater to the over-60's crowd who have been trained their entire lives by broadcast TV and can't think on their own?
Yet live streaming on Twitch and YouTube is popular with a far younger crowd. There is potentially a place for a continuous live stream where viewers visit at a time according to their interest. It is an overly artificial construct if you have nearly unlimited content to offer, but if your pool of content is very limited it has some real advantages for the producer.
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Actually, the current generation of cable tech has SDV: Switched Digital Viewing. The idea is to let you select a channel, then stream it as the only channel on your wire so the rest is left to the Internet. Of course, five or six channels fit because of other TVs and neighbors. Basically, TV has the same wire usage as a full-motion Internet stream under this.
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The Millennials and GenZ do a lot of live streaming. Hell even I do on occasion when the creator and the content is specific enough to peak my interest; and I'm GenX. It allows for real time question asking of the presenter if you have a unique question about the topic, and feeling of reward for watching the content if your question is answered. Many won't bother with the live stream and catch up on the upload to come later if they have a passing interest and don't need to engage live. Otherwise, if you're
I'm shocked! (Score:2)
Well, I guess they have to do something, since just about everybody knows their reviews are bought and paid for by the people making the movies, and therefore utterly unreliable.
Good idea to pivot because the ratings are trash (Score:2)
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Rotten Tomatoes Film Show (Score:2)
Is the old Al Gore's Current TV version of the site's film reviews still being made? Are they included in this deal?
And now... (Score:1)
You mean Comcast-owned Peacock and Xumo? (Score:2)
Well, no... (Score:2)