CBS Offers Subscribing Fans Live Big Brother 6 Webcast 24/7
Los Angeles, CA, and Seattle, WA –As viewing entertainment drifts further in the on-demand direction, CBS and digital media leader RealNetworks announced that they will offer subscribing fans an exclusive live videostream from the Big Brother 6 house 24 hours a day. Beginning this Thursday, July 7, immediately following the show's east coast broadcast (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET/PT), viewers can access the real time webcast via the official Big Brother 6 site at www.cbs.com and via RealNetworks' "SuperPass" service at www.real.com/bigbrother.
The Big Brother 6 live webcast functions as a companion to the traditional telecast, and as a live program in its own right, further connecting viewers to the series. Fans can watch the action unfold on any one of four live camera feeds from inside house, or enjoy a special quad-cam view that allows fans to see four different video feeds at once. To preserve the drama for those watching the Big Brother 6 telecast, CBS may block or delay the webcast for a limited number of real-time events.
This next edition of the reality stalwart follows a group of people living together in a new house, while 47 cameras and 78 microphones—the most in the Big Brother history—record their every twitch 24 hours a day. Housemates will vote each other out of the house one by one over a three-month course, with a few new twists. Each guest is with a secretly paired with a partner from the outside world, and the grand prize is upped to $1,000,000 for the last duo standing.
For the first time, Big Brother fans will also have access to a Head of Household Blog at www.cbs.com. This blog allows each week's head of the house to communicate directly with fans, giving them a first-hand account of how it feels to be in the constant eye of so many live cameras. The site also features a live 24/7 chat room, episode summaries, the interactive Big Brother Fantasy League game, a virtual tour of the Big Brother house, polls, galleries and more.
Larry Kramer, President, CBS Digital Media, said that CBS.com is going to great lengths this summer to provide Big Brother fans the broadest and most exciting companion viewing experience they have ever offered. "From the 24/7 live Internet feed to the new blog to the daily talk show (House Calls: The Big Brother Talk Show, a half-hour daily talk show streaming free on weekday afternoons at www.cbs.com). Big Brother viewers will have unparalleled access to activities in the Big Brother house and a new level of involvement with the show."
According to network sources, CBS.com has become the most trafficked website among all network television websites, boasting more unique visitors every month for the past two years and successfully melding traditional television with new media. The portal attracted record high of more than 12 million unique visitors in May 2004 as a result of the Survivor: All Stars finale. Home to all official websites for CBS programs, CBS.com's notable sites also include those of CSI, The Amazing Race and the Late Show with David Letterman.
J. Bolden