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The promotion of "Homicide" telewebber auction on NBC TV went up against the "Enhanced TV" broadcast of the Oscar
Awards on ABC TV on Sunday night, March 25, 2001. You can click here
for news about the Oscars on ABC's Enhanced TV. You can also click here
for news about the continuing interactive broadcast of the NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament on CBS TV
with Microsoft UltimateTV and WebTV Plus which was telecast earlier in the day.
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March 25, 2001 - The caption link for the screen shot goes to the NBC "Homicide: Life On The Street" webpage for the auction of memorabilia, props,
clothing, and other items from the television show. NBC ran commercial promotions throughout the re-broadcast of the
"Homicide: The Movie" telling television viewers to get on the internet and visit the www.NBCi.com/homicide webpage
to participate in the auction to bid on the memorabilia and other items from the TV show. In a two-screen telewebber experience,
you would have to physically go from the TV set to a PC, or some other internet device, to log onto the auction webpage. If you have
a WebTV (or other TV set-top box) or a PC-TV (a PC box equipped with a internal TV Tuner card), then you could have a one-screen
interactive television experience watching the "Homicide" movie in full-screen mode and then switch over to the web using a
picture-in-picture (PIP) on a WebTV (or other TV set-top box) or resize the TV broadcast picture with a PC-TV so you can surf the internet
to go to the "Homicide" auction webpage while watching the "Homicide" TV movie in the PIP or the resized TV window.
The NBC auction is being held on the same night as the Oscars show on ABC. An earlier version of the NBC news announcement
stated, "NBC viewers will be directed to www.nbci.com/homicide through network and online promotions
that will run from Sunday, March 25 through April 2." On Sunday night, you can click here
to visit the NBCi "Homicide: Life on the Street" auction webpage and you can
click here for
ABC TV's "Enhanced TV" webpage for the 73rd Annual Academy Awards.
Also EARLIER in the day on Sunday, you have the continuing
March Madness interactive broadcast of the
NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament on CBS TV with Microsoft's UltimateTV and WebTV Plus. After you watch March Madness,
you can then flip back and forth between the Oscars and the movie. So the three big US broadcast
networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC are doing interactive television, whether on two screens or one screen, on Sunday,
March 25, 2001.
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