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Big
Brother All Stars on Air, Online and on Your Cell Phone
6/28/06
CBS'S "BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS" -- ON-AIR, ONLINE AND ON YOUR
CELL PHONE
CBS Launches the Most Interactive Summer Yet For the New Season of
"Big Brother"
Entire Episodes of "Big Brother: All-Stars" Will Be Streamed
on CBS.com's New Broadband Channel "innertube" the Day After the
Episode Airs on the Network
CBS to Offer Mobile Subscribers Around the Clock Coverage of "Big
Brother: All-Stars" Via a Multi-Tiered Interactive Campaign
CBS and RealNetworks Join Forces for Another Season of Exclusive 24/7
Live Video Feeds From Inside the Big Brother House, Available Through
CBS.com and SuperPass
"House Calls: The Big Brother Talk Show" Returns for Third
Season on CBS.com
BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS will be on the air, online and on your cell
phone this summer when CBS launches a multi-platform campaign that will
bring audiences unprecedented coverage of their favorite – and not so
favorite- All-Stars from inside the Big Brother house. BIG BROTHER:
ALL-STARS premieres Thursday, July 6 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS
Television Network.
The multi-platform campaign will form an ambitious convergence of the
three mediums -- TV, Internet and cell phones -- creatively linked to keep
viewers entertained, informed and engaged throughout the summer.
Entire episodes of BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS will be streamed on CBS.com's
new broadband channel "innertube" beginning the morning after
the episode airs on the Network. The episodes will be archived on "innertube"
for viewing throughout the run of the summer series.
For the first time, CBS will offer around the clock coverage of BIG
BROTHER: ALL-STARS through a mobile subscription package:
"BIG BROTHER MOBILE PACK": Big Brother knows and so will you.
For the mobile subscription package, special producers will be monitoring
the action inside the house around the clock to keep fans in the know with
video clips, photos, live breaking house alerts and daily insider
summaries on their cell phones. Additionally, fans will have access to
exclusive video, picture and text diaries of their favorite Houseguests.
The service will be available on most major wireless carriers and fans
will be able to subscribe via www.CBS.com and on-air callouts during BIG
BROTHER: ALL-STARS.
Other wireless elements outside of the package, which can also be
accessed through www.CBS.com and on-air callouts during the show, include:
· "AMERICA'S VOTE" sponsored by Cingular Wireless:
Throughout the season, fans will have the opportunity to cast their votes
for scenarios that will impact the outcome of the game for the
Houseguests. Cell phone subscribers can send in their votes via text
message on most major wireless carriers.
· "AMERICA WINS ON BIG BROTHER" sponsored by Cingular
Wireless: Each week, fans will have the opportunity to predict via text
message which Houseguest will be the next to be voted out of the game.
After each eviction, one lucky fan who chooses the correct evicted
Houseguest will win $10,000.
Other "BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS" elements on the Internet
include:
· For the sixth year, CBS and RealNetworks®, Inc., will join forces
to provide exclusive 24/7 live video streaming from inside the BIG
BROTHER: ALL-STARS house. The webcast coverage debuts immediately
following the July 6 premiere of BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS and will be
accessible through the official BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS website at CBS.com
and through Real's SuperPass subscription service at Real.com.
The entire three-month live 24/7 internet feed of BIG BROTHER:
ALL-STARS is available through SuperPass. Subscribers to the 24/7 video
stream can watch any one of four live camera feeds from inside the BIG
BROTHER: ALL-STARS house or catch all of the action at once with the
special quad-cam view which allows fans to see four different video feeds
simultaneously. Subscribers will also have access to an exclusive,
subscribers-only web chat that will allow fans from across the country to
converse about what they see live on the feeds. This year, Real and CBS
are enhancing the Big Brother 24/7 experience with Big Brother-focused
blogs, chat rooms, message boards, weekly polls and other new interactive
features that allow fans to interact with each other and stay engaged with
the show 24/7.
{As in past years to preserve the drama for BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS
television viewers, CBS may block or delay the webcast for a limited
number of real-time events that transpire in the house.}
· Also returning is the popular HOUSE CALLS: THE BIG BROTHER TALK
SHOW, a no-charge, half-hour, streaming video daily talk show about the
summer reality series seen every Monday through Friday (1:00 PM/ET, 10:00
AM/PT) on CBS.com.
HOUSE CALLS is hosted by radio personality Gretchen Massey, host of
"The Gretchen Massey Show" broadcast Sunday nights on CBS
Radio's 106.9 Free FM, San Francisco, Calif. A guest host will join Massey
on HOUSE CALLS each week and former Big Brother Houseguests may be among
the guest hosts. The hosts will interact with viewers through phone calls
and e-mails, discuss events that transpire in the Big Brother house, offer
prognostications, analyze strategies and interview former "Big
Brother" Houseguests as well as current Houseguests following their
eviction.
· All fans will have access to other key components of the official
BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS website on CBS.com, including: detailed summaries
of all the events that happen during each televised broadcast; a live 24/7
chat room; popularity and opinion polls; a virtual tour of the BIG BROTHER
house; descriptions of the week's challenges; voting history pages; photo
galleries; and a houseguest section with complete profiles.
· Returning for a second season on CBS.com is the Head of Household
Blog in which fans will be able to hear straight from the Head of
Household about life in the BIG BROTHER house, what it is like to be under
the constant gaze of dozens of cameras and watched live on the Internet
24/7.
BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS premieres Thursday, July 6 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT)
on the CBS Television Network. Following the premiere, BIG BROTHER:
ALL-STARS will be broadcast each week on Tuesdays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT),
Thursdays (8:00-9:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) and Sundays (8:00-9:00 PM,
ET/PT). The Thursday broadcast, hosted by Julie Chen, will feature the
live eviction of one of the houseguests.
Arnold Shapiro, Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan are the executive
producers of BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS for Arnold Shapiro & Allison
Grodner Productions, in association with Endemol Entertainment.
Source:
CBS Press Release
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