We started a Web site, but NBC refused to let us...: ShortFormBlog

« prev cool neat spiffy rad whoa random next »

nav: on

Lijit Search

December 7, 2012

10:52 • 5 months ago

We started a Web site, but NBC refused to let us put the address on any of our ads because they didn’t want people to know the Internet existed. They were worried about losing viewers to it.

Judd Apatow in The Oral History of Freaks and Geeks. 1999 ruled. (via amandalynferri)

Sums up the entertainment industry pretty well. (via parislemon)

In a way, they were right (ratings as a whole are down, people aren’t watching TV as much), but in another way, this was so shortsighted.

Adapted from Tumblr Related Posts by Dom Claxton

blog comments powered by Disqus

643 notes from really cool Tumblrs like ours:

joanronstadt reblogged this from popculturebrain
ladyjoannabanana reblogged this from laughterkey
cityaddict reblogged this from shortformblog
istreefashions likes this
photobeauty likes this
carsports likes this
aleriehightower reblogged this from fairwayfrank
fairwayfrank reblogged this from popculturebrain
thephotoart likes this
istreetfashions likes this
cheapiphonecase likes this
sarahwrotethat likes this
thisisthelifeichose likes this
likeapairofbottlerockets likes this
maryphillipssandy reblogged this from amandalynferri
ishanm likes this
petsfun likes this
ifashiongirls likes this
wesruv likes this
spacetime-inspector reblogged this from kerouacs
everybodyandtelevision reblogged this from soulofayoungman
everybodyandtelevision likes this
soulofayoungman reblogged this from popculturebrain
gregorystees likes this
somethingbysomeone reblogged this from ronenreblogs
atomvincent likes this
deliaaadoll likes this
andreajo reblogged this from ronenreblogs
andreajo likes this
trampish likes this
soapboxetiquette likes this
listumblng likes this
ronenreblogs reblogged this from parislemon
onthevergeofhappyness reblogged this from austinkleon
nogreatillusion likes this
kj979 likes this
thatgirlwasmeanttofly likes this
adesideratum reblogged this from maxistentialist
films2010 likes this
sunnygemini likes this
gladlybeyond likes this
scuzzlebutt likes this
dreamtofthestars likes this
yrgod reblogged this from grapefruits
coreymarie likes this
naranzarian likes this
amandalynferri posted this

More Cool Stuff From Buzzfeed:

ShortFormBlog is the product of Ernie Smith, Seth Millstein, Chris Tognotti, Sami Main, Scott Craft, Matthew Keys, Julius the laid-off RSS robot, awesome links from awesome sources, a hacked version of Wordpress, Tumblr's Tumblarity, the letter Q, the number 13 and a series of tubes.

ShortFormBlog

Read a little. Learn a lot. • Ask Us Stuff! • FAQ • Archive • Timeline

643 notes from really cool Tumblrs like ours:

More Cool Stuff From Buzzfeed: