‘Saturday Night Live’ Archives Moving to Yahoo

But it’s reality now, as the owner of the “S.N.L.” archive, Broadway Video, tries to wring a profit out of the old episodes. On Wednesday, Yahoo announced that it had acquired the exclusive rights to classic clips from 1975 through 2012, effective in September. The clips will be removed from Hulu and NBC.com, where they currently reside, and be shown instead on Yahoo, which wants to share in the buzz the show creates.

The deal between Broadway Video and Yahoo highlights the jockeying among companies that want to have a library of online videos to call their own. A dizzying number of online video producers are pitching their programs to advertisers this month, ahead of the traditional television upfront sessions in May. While these Web programs’ quantity and quality are increasing quickly, there are doubts about whether the advertising dollars are.

“On one hand, digital video advertising is growing fast and its prominence is increasing,” said Clark Fredricksen of the research firm eMarketer. “On the other, compared to television, online video is an incredibly competitive market, where you have more companies fighting over far less.” Mr. Fredricksen’s company estimates that $4.1 billion will be spent on online video ads this year, in contrast to $66.4 billion on television ads.

“There are a handful of major conglomerates who split revenues from the huge TV-ad pie,” Mr. Fredricksen said, “while the digital video world features hundreds of companies fighting, comparatively, for scraps from the TV table.”

Attaching, barnaclelike, to television might be a way to stand out from the crowd. Yahoo, which is trying for a turnaround under its chief executive, Marissa Mayer, has content-sharing relationships with many major media companies, but its video hub, Yahoo Screen, has lagged rivals like Google, which owns YouTube.

Erin McPherson, a Yahoo vice president who oversees the company’s video business, said the company jumped at the “S.N.L.” opportunity. She said the “S.N.L.” clips would be “widely distributed” across Yahoo, suggesting a strategy that will go beyond the current Yahoo Screen site.

“Rather than competing with Hulu, Netflix or any other platform, we see this as a step toward adding scale and breadth to the great content we are already offering users,” Ms. McPherson said.

Yahoo and Broadway Video declined to comment on terms, but people with knowledge of the arrangement said access to the “S.N.L.” library had cost upward of $10 million a year in the past.

Hulu, the online video Web site owned by Comcast, The News Corporation and the Walt Disney Company, enjoyed an immediate bump in traffic when it added “SNL” to its collection. These days, however, Hulu — which its owners are considering selling — is concentrating on other content. It will promote several of its forthcoming original series at an event for advertisers next week.

Under the deal announced on Wednesday, Hulu will still stream clips and full episodes from the current television season. Yahoo will be able to do that, too. But Yahoo will have the old “S.N.L.” clips all to itself, giving it something special to show off — although only for one year. The deal will be up for renegotiation at that point.

Jack Sullivan, chief executive of Broadway Video, said the deal would let “S.N.L.” increase its distribution internationally, since the clips of classic episodes have generally only been accessible in North America in the past.

For a company like Yahoo, “having TV-like offerings is really important,” said Mike Vorhaus, president of the digital media consulting firm Magid Advisors. That’s because online video ads have partly taken the place of Web display ads, sometimes called banner ads, in advertisers’ budgets; as Mr. Vorhaus put it, “You can only take so much banner money away before there’s no banner money left at all.”

“Now they kind of have to pursue TV money,” he added.

Along the way they’re becoming more like TV. Earlier this year, a sendup of dating reality shows created by Yahoo, “Burning Love,” was deemed worthy of running on the cable channel E! as well. Sony, another company that will be presenting to advertisers next week, was recognized for treating Jerry Seinfeld’s experimental Web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” like a TV series when it ordered a 24-episode second season.

And Netflix, the ad-free streaming service that so many other companies want to resemble, was praised for commissioning “House of Cards,” the Washington thriller that could have fit right in on HBO or AMC. On Wednesday night, Netflix released a long-term vision statement for investors that summed up why it and so many of its competitors are optimistic about their chances: “While Internet TV is only a very small percent of video viewing today, we think it will grow every year,” it said, citing faster Internet speeds, sales of Internet-connected TV sets, improvements to TV apps and the possibilities for personalized online video ads.

The competition for Internet TV viewing, it concluded, “is just beginning.”

The 'Night Stalker': Terrible Being Torments Family - Phantoms And Monsters

On Tuesday, JC Johnson of Crypto Four Corners posted a video titled Video - "The Night Stalker".

JC and his team were contacted on Friday 9/21 in reference to a series of disturbing incidents occurring at a residence in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. The family had experience loud clawing sounds and indiscernible growls coming from outside their home. The daughter has also endured clawing outside her bedroom window as well as unexplained activity within the home. She woke to claw marks on her back and has noticed items moved in her bedroom. There have been several attempts to confront this being but in each instance it has eluded the efforts.

There has been damage to the house and a vehicle as a result of these attacks. Deep claw and chew marks can be seen on the truck headlight housing and grill. There have been a few 3-claw prints left on the side of the house and on the ground around the residence.

I talked to JC through Skype soon after receiving the video. He added a few interesting details.

There were two separate descriptions presented to JC. One depiction was that this being resembled the 'Creeper' from the 'Jeepers Creepers' horror film series. A more detailed summary was offered by a witness who observed this being while it was sitting on the ground. It was covered in gray hair and that a 3-clawed appendage was visible. The torso to head height of this being was about 5 ft. sitting...which would make it approximately 8-9 ft. in full height. There is an indication that the being has wings which would explain the odd patches of trampled corn stalks in the field as it would fly and then land indiscriminately. Something else that must be considered are the apparent attacks on the daughter within the home. There seems to be a supernatural aspect to this being...lending some credence that it may be a 'thought form' entity manifesting and creating havoc. At this point, it's impossible to distinguish it's intent.

 

The 'Night Stalker': Terrible Being Torments Family - Phantoms And Monsters

On Tuesday, JC Johnson of Crypto Four Corners posted a video titled Video - "The Night Stalker".

JC and his team were contacted on Friday 9/21 in reference to a series of disturbing incidents occurring at a residence in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. The family had experience loud clawing sounds and indiscernible growls coming from outside their home. The daughter has also endured clawing outside her bedroom window as well as unexplained activity within the home. She woke to claw marks on her back and has noticed items moved in her bedroom. There have been several attempts to confront this being but in each instance it has eluded the efforts.

There has been damage to the house and a vehicle as a result of these attacks. Deep claw and chew marks can be seen on the truck headlight housing and grill. There have been a few 3-claw prints left on the side of the house and on the ground around the residence.

I talked to JC through Skype soon after receiving the video. He added a few interesting details.

There were two separate descriptions presented to JC. One depiction was that this being resembled the 'Creeper' from the 'Jeepers Creepers' horror film series. A more detailed summary was offered by a witness who observed this being while it was sitting on the ground. It was covered in gray hair and that a 3-clawed appendage was visible. The torso to head height of this being was about 5 ft. sitting...which would make it approximately 8-9 ft. in full height. There is an indication that the being has wings which would explain the odd patches of trampled corn stalks in the field as it would fly and then land indiscriminately. Something else that must be considered are the apparent attacks on the daughter within the home. There seems to be a supernatural aspect to this being...lending some credence that it may be a 'thought form' entity manifesting and creating havoc. At this point, it's impossible to distinguish it's intent.

Click for video - "The Night Stalker".

If you have any information of a similar sighting please contact JC Johnson at Crypto Four Corners or send me an inquiry and I forward the information...Lon

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