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Originally Posted by Garage Dog 65
Watching V8TV just now - and wondered. Kevin, how much additional time and effort do you spend doing the video blogs along with doing the work ? Is it a huge effort in pre/post production time ? It's certanily worth it and appreciated out here - just wondering how much additional work it puts on the builder.
Thanks !!!!!
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It is some extra time and effort, but the blogs were intended to do a couple things. First, when we started them, we didn't have the legal rights to put V8TV segments on the web, so we created content that was non-broadcast to be able to put some video on our website.
Several months ago, when we relaunched our site, we renegotiated our contract with the channel to be able to have all our video on the web as well as the TV show. The blogs are fun to do, they're quick updates that are generally down and dirty and don't take up alot of editing time. They're the TV equivalent of donut holes... a little piece thrown in the fryer at the end of the day. They're also real-time updates of project builds.
As for the distribution of the channel, they're in some renegotiation deal with Dish right now. I'm not sure exactly what's happening over there, but the channel is still on DirecTV and cable systems like Time Warner. However, perhaps the best way to follow along is on the web, now that all our video from all 62 episodes lives on our site permanently. You don't even need a TV. The show is contracted through April, 2008 on MOR, we'll see what happens after that.
Thanks for the compliments, we now have to get back to planning our next mind-numbing episode for Steevo!
- Kevin Oeste