Revision3 Is Lost

Site News — October 28th, 2008

Revision3 was started with the viewer in mind and because of that they have made some great shows like Diggnation, Totally Rad Show, Web Drifter, and Scam School. Yesterday they killed and laid off a lot of their staff destroying some of the their best shows while allowing some of their shows of lesser content to survive. The creep Jim Louderback had failed to mention that these people were being laid off in his press release. The Revision3 content goal was always supposed to be for the viewers and for the niche markets. A couple of the shows they canceled were just added. “Hey come here, now go away!”

Lets take a look at some of the low rated or just plain awful shows on their network now.

  • Systm – This show hasn’t been the same since Kevin Rose and Dan Huard left. (Where is Dan?)
  • Tekzilla – This show was hurt by Jessica Corbin when it first came out so they made the smart move and got rid of her. Bad news is they put Veronica Belmont in her place. Veronica and Patrick Norton now spew such lies as “People don’t use Firewire” and are often wrong on their advice because they apparently have no time to study what the topic is. Update: I don’t hate them, in fact the opposite, I just wish they’d review what they talk about a little more.
  • XLR8R – I don’t even know what the hell this is or why it’s here.
  • The GigaOm Show – Business news for suit in ties in a young adults network? Talking about Web 2.0? You can see how this show can easily get annoying.
  • The Digg Reel – Hey I got an idea lets go take content from Digg.com (worked with Diggnation) but only the sleezy YouTube videos. Oh and let’s only show 30 seconds of it. Reusing other peoples content and adding no real content of your own. You know what? I’m gonna steal this idea. It’s not like anyone watches this show.

And before I go I want to mention their daily “Bite” shows. Tekzilla and Internet Superstar do these daily 30-second videos with some awful content. What’s worse is each one of these 30-second shows has two minutes of advertisements.

We love our friends at Revision3 and we hope they turn it around, but it doesn’t look likely.

Update: This isn’t meant to be mean spirited but more tough love and to say the shows they got rid of surely are not as bad as the other ones.

6 Comments »

6 Responses to “Revision3 Is Lost”

  1. Andrew Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 6:55 am

    Tekzilla is not a low rated show. It’s in their top 3 watched alongside Totally Rad Show and Diggnation and is up for many awards.

  2. Andrew Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 6:56 am

    And also, Internet Superstar hasn’t done ‘daily bite’ content for a while. They did 10-15 minute episodes DAILY.
    You should do some more research. GigaOM hasn’t been produced for months and it’s set is now used by Systm so it’s not likely to be seen again.

  3. Jake Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 7:00 am

    Tekzilla is not low rated you are correct, but it is awful. Fixed.

    Internet Superstar still does the 30 second show on Fridays (or did until it was canceled) and then 3 minutes of ads.

    GigaOm has been put on postpone due to his heart problem, it was planned to come back.

    I wrote this cause I love Revision3, not to bash them, though now I think Jim is insane.

  4. Veronica Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 7:48 am

    I’m sorry you’re bummed about the shows you liked that were lost. It was a sad day for all of us. But it’s no reason to spew hate at the other people who are just trying to do their jobs and entertain people.

    We never “lie” on Tekzilla. We have opinions that we share with our viewers. If something is wrong, the viewers tell us and we make a correction. As for firewire, if I remember correctly we were MAD that they didn’t include it, and tried to think of a reason why that could have been.

    I’m sorry you don’t like me (can’t win them all), but your mean-spirited post isn’t helping or improving the situation.

    Best,
    Veronica

  5. Thomas Says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 4:09 am

    Don’t like negative comments? Don’t put your show on the air and/or just play it for friends and family. I’m so tired of people that can’t take critique and consider it ‘mean-spirited’ to point out what many of us agrees with.

    Tekzilla is a great example of a horrible show with an audience and Jake’s comments are valid: Patrick shows some gadget and tells some semi-researched piece of tech info and Veronica makes a funny face. Next.

    That it has an audience is sometimes not relevant – I mean ‘Who wants to date New York’ has an audience.

  6. Jake Says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 4:24 am

    Thanks Thomas.

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