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PRESS PLAY ON TAPE made it onto CNN
Posted: 07/12/2007 - 16:45
by beyond
Well, we're on
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/ ... nnSTCPhoto" target="_blank (picture #7) and some text too
Anyhoo, the remix community might get some attention from this, I hope!
-Theo
Re: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE made it onto CNN
Posted: 07/12/2007 - 17:33
by Chris Abbott
Would help if they referenced any remix sites: especially those who had pioneered orchestral remixes and CD releases... *sigh*
Chris
Re: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE made it onto CNN
Posted: 07/12/2007 - 19:05
by DHS
Good work dudes!
I noticed too there isn't any reference to remix scene or Chris, who started nearly it all.
But i guess it's not your fault.
Well, good to get some attention on the matter anyway
Re: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE made it onto CNN
Posted: 07/12/2007 - 19:17
by beyond
The CNN pitch is not about c64 remixes but about what you used and use your c64 for. I see this as a great opportunity for people getting to know about the c64 music scene and that way find out that there are albums and those can be bought. Right now there are tons of people not being aware of what we're doing here, and when they find out sparks will light up, and that might end up in CDs being bought, for instance at c64audio
Eventually other articles will be written and that can also spawn more attention and what not?
Re: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE made it onto CNN
Posted: 08/12/2007 - 3:19
by Retrovertigo
The CNN pitch is not about c64 remixes but about what you used and use your c64 for.
Exactly. You missed the point entirely Chris.
Re: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE made it onto CNN
Posted: 08/12/2007 - 8:22
by Chris Abbott
Retrovertigo wrote:The CNN pitch is not about c64 remixes but about what you used and use your c64 for.
Exactly. You missed the point entirely Chris.
Some of the article is prominent PR Fluff for a remix album, though. Without that, I'd agree. Would a link have killed them?
Chris
Re: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE made it onto CNN
Posted: 10/12/2007 - 9:48
by Andreas Wallström
So much was cut from the answers we send to Peggy who wrote the article (which of course was expected). Ville (my co-driver) was completely cut out. Anything I mentioned about SLAY Radio was also cut out.
Re: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE made it onto CNN
Posted: 10/12/2007 - 10:18
by Chris Abbott
I guess that's the media for you... always getting the final word.
Re: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE made it onto CNN
Posted: 10/12/2007 - 11:22
by Tonka
Retrovertigo wrote:The CNN pitch is not about c64 remixes but about what you used and use your c64 for.
Exactly. You missed the point entirely Chris.
Yeah Chris - why would you assume the C64 remix scene has any place in an article about C64's (which some people, er, use to make, uhm, C64 remixes)?!
Jeez, you're such a gumby - I'm embarrassed for you...
Re: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE made it onto CNN
Posted: 11/12/2007 - 12:43
by beyond
Don't know if you can use this information for anything but here goes nothing:
PPOT received somewhat 450 hits from CNN (leading to ~1000 pages read on ppot.com) and approx 2500 (leading to ~4500 pages read) from an italian site writing about us inspired by the CNN thing. Out of these approx 120 went into our CDs page, and a little under a hundred people pressed the C64 banner exchange. The day after the CNN incident the amount of CNN hits plunged to 32.
The most interesting pages became the free music and the free videos. That's what people want
That's how much we got out of it, ie. not much.