Trivia Post #2.

New on the Cable Dial: Interactive Games

"Susquehanna's 16,500 digital subscribers in York, Pa., are now able to tune to channel 998 on their cable boxes and play any one of six trivia games provided by Buzztime Entertainment, an interactive game provider that has until recently focused on restaurants and bars.

Viewers in York can compete against their neighbors in real time for prizes. Buzztime, a unit of NTN Communications, is seeking to add other cable operators to its trivia train, allowing viewers to race nationwide to their buzzers (which, in this case, are simply buttons on their remote controls). Playing the games is free with a digital cable subscription, but Buzztime hopes to offer other content for which it would charge." [New York Times, via Chris Van Buskirk's ITV Weblog]

This would give a whole new meaning to game night at our house! This is a smart move on the part of Susquehanna and Buzztime, because they obviously realize the built-in audience of librarians they're wrapping up.

[The Shifted Librarian]

I ahve a freind who lives in the York area and got to play with this breifly a few weeks ago, as he wasa a part of the testing gorup before this was rolled out, very cool, and similar to the trivia programs I've seen via satellite while vacationing in Europe. Cool tech! Let's hope it rolls out nationwide soon.

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