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I love it Tom. AWESOME blog. That shit gets me fired up. It's like watching Rocky or William Wallace in Braveheart. Come ON people, if you don't yet subscribe, do it NOW and say "fuck you" to the man!!
I hate tv now. I can pick on one hand, the shows I watch regularly. And 3 of them are old shows in rerun. Subscribe people, and create an army of freedom. Tom is at the extreme forefront in this revolution. In 2 years, this subscription format will be on it's way to becoming the norm. Let's help it get there faster. Sign up!!!
Cheers Tom
Tom, I completely agree with you all the way. I have gradually been weening myself away from tv because, well lets just admit it, everything sucks on tv now! Your show is the one I tune into every night, and go the entire day without watching tv. (wow I sound like I'm addicted to cigarettes or something) For a beginning comedian like myself, televison gives me no influences anymore, besides making fun of stupid American Idol. This web-o-vision is reality tv, not the shit that is broadcasting today! Keep up the dream Tom! I want to be watching the Channel until I'm wearing diapers! Cheers! Chris Sopsich
sup Broseff,
In summary ur blog today basically shows how subscribers of the channel become the shareholders. We decide on the content of the show and becoming partners enables us to do whatever the FUCK we want!!! Let's start this enterprise together and who knows where it will take us all. One thing Tom, the channel is changing the history of how we view TV and webovision. I think this channel is only scracthing the surface of something really special. I invision big things to come in the not to distant future.
all the best,
pk
ps jump on the bandwagon and subscribe!!!
I am sofa-king.
Embrace the inner idiot, for that
is all seat of your power ummmm yes.
tom if it is u acting fuck up on twitter turn on the switch now so we can watch u acting fuck up on twitter how much fucking fun would that b fuck.......:)
Hey tom when you get sorted with the 2 way TV. Ask the GORGEOUS Carrie Keagen from NGTV.com on the webovision, She lo lo lo lo lovely.I think you 2 will hit it off. later pal
This has been a roller coaster year for me too bro. I think what's happening is you're realizing how RIGHT you have been and how blind everyone else has been. I've had similar things happening for myself recently.
The future is looking very positive Tom...YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED! YOU ARE CHANGING THE WORLD!
Hey Tom! I don't know if you really have the time to read and answer all the questions/comments but what ever happened to glen and the gang? I love your movies and shows! I remember when I was young staying up late at night when everyone else was sleeping waiting for your show to come on, I laughed so hard I cried! You don't seem the same now... I guess you've been through a lot with the cancer and stuff, plus everyone grows up and changes. I still very much enjoy watching your old & new shows. You've helped me (and many others) get through some hard times by bringing joy and laughter... That's something you should feel good about. Love ya Tom and keep up the good work!! -Steve
hey tom, you should go to twitter, you're being hacked big time and you're losing followers. i think you should create a new account.
Dude either your account has been phished on twitter or you are high on engery drinks! :)
Hey tom what did you do with the tapes of tom green coming to your town on your old mtv show i send one out so was wondering thanks....
hey tom are you going crazy on twitter....and you are loosing a couple of followers lol.....
love the tweets...I really needed the smile today :)
Drew is such a dumbass...
Tom-Your Twitter account has been hacked. Lots of rediculous tweets coming from your account! Change your password asap!
please stop it with alllllll the twitters. i keep you on my cell phone alert so i know when you go live, not for you, or your hacked twitter account to bother me at work
If you like sillyness, here is a guy who takes sillyness to another level. Watch his whole show! It's Hilarious!
Stephen Harper was recently on a 5 day arctic tour. When his Office released information about this tour they misspelled Iqaluit (the capital of Nunavut) Instead they spelled it "Iqualuit".
In the Inuktitut language Iqaluit means "many fish" Whilst Iqualuit means "People with unwiped bums."
Needless to say the people of Nunavut were quite displeased.
Just some interesting news in Canadian politics!
Hey Tom. I realy want to subscribe but i cant seem to get the form right! Myu street addres wont validate ect. Help me out...
we love u tom... we watch all your shows many years ago when we growin up..ur show was probly the best show on mtv back in the days
t...o...m..... you are the man... me and all my friends love u.. we watch all u shows many years ago....ur show was the best show on mtv... when we were all kids growing up.....
Hi Tom,
I was wondering if you could contact me regarding a Canadian Cancer Society awareness event that I chair. The event is called "Get the Ball Rolling" and centres on awareness regarding testicular cancer. We are going into our second year and are trying to expand. We would love to have a video msg or something written about the importance of early detection, etc for our education piece.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Sam
Hi Tom,
I'm wondering if its possible to have you advertise Poshbid.com in youtube ?
We want to do you an "Idol of a Month" at Poshbid, I can send you the Proposal via e-mail.
Put my Whos who in the zoo back on your desk where it belongs and I'll subscribe. But only if you do new shows. PS There really should be a tomgreendotcom app for the iphone. Where is it? PPS When you say (below) "this year" do you mean 2009 because the year is 2/3rds over already lol lol man im so old now. well anyway thats the scoop from the swaziland taco.
Its $60 worthless crap, return it. By my opinion has very poor resolution on larger screens it may be difficult to read lettering and words that you may be pointing out to your audience.
That's just my review on it.
Anyways, I am happy to see some progress on the channel. It sounds like some exciting stuff is in our near future. I hope we are in for a Skype Marathon after it is finished ;)
http://www.pomegranatephone.com/
almost as good as the no-touch toilet you intro'd.
What's up Tom. Just dropping by to let you know that you have a lot of loyal fans here in Yorkton, SK, Canada.
Drop by one day. We have some damn good hot chocolate here. And the ladies, well, let''s just say... they are fine!
hey Tom, how about setting up a donations system on the site to cut out a few more subscribers from the target? When i am a millionaire, i will fund the show with no need for advertising!
What's good tom? would you rather read comments or questions? haha you just read one oops maybe 2, ok i'm on a role, not a barrel role, didn't ask you. you are much more interested in your whole media revolution, congrads. been reading your blog a lil, and just watched the hearts of darkness post. dont ask me why i'm asking you this, would you like to cook a burger on the barbeque? or would the correct terminology in a parliament governing province be barbie? barbeque/barbie being just a small example with slang, i would guess? but wtf would i know./? i'm from a revolutionary type government??
Hi Tom,
With this new Skype system you could hold debates with your guest(s), yourself and however many callers you could have on at once. You could discuss important topics like: Hard liquor or beer? Which one is more appropriate in certain situations? Canadian or Blue? Gretzky or Lemieux? Or you can ask callers what they would think about having a "Socialist" medical system instead of HMO's? I know that doesn't sound funny but I bet some of the reactions would be?
I think it would be awesome if each individual person watching the live feed would have the ability to choose which camera they want to watch. Victor could still do the cuts he normally does, but give people the option to either keep up with him or pick the cameras they want to view. Give us a control panel. Of course, watching the archives you would just see it as it was intended with Victor's camera cuts. But it would add a new level of interactivity for the live viewers.
Hey Tom! i heard you mentioning you will be taking video calls from other sources, i was wondering if cellular phones is one of them? i have a Sony Ericsson that does video calls and it would be so much simpler if i could call you on that, i also know many other "smart" phones today are capable of making video calls and keeping great quality. whatta ya figure?
You bet Johnny! awesome video!
Hey man, I have a nice plan for you to get a minimum of 4,200 subscribers. After my next pay check, I will be one myself, just been low on money because I'm in my last semester in college for criminal justice. After my next check, this Friday, I'm joinging the subscription. I'm 22 years old. My plan is this: I have read thousands of blog about people searching and looking for your mtv version of the 1999-2000 Tom Green Show. There aren't any torrent files of the show to be found out there, trust me I have looked. I can't guarantee you this, but I deeply feel that if you upload one full episode a month of the show, the viewers/fans will start to subscribe. This is just at the top of my head Tom, ha I'm crazy but consider it, or atleast respond to me if you need some other ideas. By the way I'm starting my internship for criminal justice before entering law school. How would you like 90 hours minimum of a "security guard" for free? Do you know how much that would help my refererence and help me mentally considering I could be around the one comedian I would choose to be around if I were at gun point? haha just a two minute conversation over audio with me and we would click, yea its sick like that. If you wanna test me, ask me to write you a "man on the street sript". Well I'm talking outside my head let me know if that sounds like a good idea to get you rmore subscribers for the channel man, I think it will attract more attention and not only bring in more money with your old/school stuff, but show the modern television viewers how creative you really were, and how you are even better than you were than. Damn you never know, after putting the full mtv version of the tom green show on here, they might dedicate you an eleven year anniversary next year after the cancer on mtv/mtv2 or who knows. If anything, say NO SETH! I want a response from ya buddy, i already bought your inside/outside the box over 2 years ago and been trying to get ahold of you buddy. Take care. Seth Tilley- Lake Charles, La. by the way i'm the one that has been offering you the gumbo that my mom makes.
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/tosho/season-1/tosho-ep-109/#clip201350
Hey Tom!
Looks like things are really looking up at the Channel! I didn't get to see tonight's progress live, so hopefully it'll be up on demand tomorrow. Seems like you got the theory down so far, and just have to invent a way for it to work! This is going to be a great year for web-o-vision.
Oh, and!! I think I found a way to stream the Channel, LIVE, on the iPhone. This new app just came out called Streamer which lets you input the URLs of video files into it, and it streams! So instead of going to TomGreen.com, for example, it would go to the url that directly links to the video feed. Then as long as you have wifi or good signal (runs slower, but still works) you can watch the stream!
I tried to figure out how to grab the url for the stream on the front page but can't find it. Once I do, I can test this and know for sure. Just thought you should know of the possibility! I'll keep you posted when I figure out if it really does work for The Channel!
Talk to you soon,
-Max
Hey there!
I think those two skype cameras totally deserve to be dressed up. I was thinking they could look cool mounted inside one of those styrofoam heads they use for wigs and hats or whatever, like a mannequin head with skype eyes or something... Of course then the "Skype guest head" could be dressed up daily with various accessories, like Groucho Marx glasses or whatever you like!
I can totally see it as "Kilroy" too. I can see that working too. Interesting history to Kilroy, yake a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
This is ground-breaking stuff for sure. Wright Brothers / Edison / Marconi type stuff! We're so close, I can almost smell it...
Three steps closer, only one step back tonight! By the end of this week it'll be working, that's what I bet, or I'll shave my head (again!)
-John
Hey Tom!
I was with Steve Walls when he met Dave Foley at a grocery store here in North Bay, Ontario.
It was great to see him in person after watching him for so long! Steve and I only had a few minutes of his time. We were respectful of him and his personal business at the store. He's a great guy to talk to in person!
I agree with Steve that you should for sure come back to North Bay sometime!
Anyways, thanks Tom for all of the entertainment and the channel !
Trevor
Hey Tom !
I was with Steve Walls when he met Dave Foley at a grocery store here in North Bay.
It was great to meet him in person after watching so much of his stuff over the years !
I agree with Steve, you need to come back to North Bay sometime in the near future !
Steve and I didn't want to bother Dave while grocery shopping so we only got a couple minutes of his time. There was so much we wanted to talk to him about but we were respectful of him and his personal business.
Thanks Tom for the entertainment over the years and the channel!
Trevor
CONGRATULATIONS TOM You don't have to eat your shirt. Now you just have to work out the bugs. one that i did notice is that when he was talking to the girl i could not hear his audio feed then when it was switched to the canon xha1 shot i could hear the sound. but it looks like your really close to your dream. i'm so happy for you tom! congrats again viva la web o vision! have fun
Hey Tom, while I'm on hold with your studio as I type this, I would just like to say it is amazing the way you guys are building up The Channel. It has been such an honor to be on your show so many times on skype and to be part of some great web-o-vision. The past few nights of testing and building has been great for me,relieving the stress, since I'm preparing to gather my silly little comedy routine which many have told me is a pipe dream. I know that The Channel will always be around to support me, and I will always be around to support the Channel. Thanks Tom Green, and look forward to sending you that footage.
the new skype cameras are horrible tom. they look wierd setting there
Hey TOM GREEN:
This is way out here, but first is first you are great and I loved your show on MTV. You are very funny, and quite rare.
My family hates me, and I'm in trouble but I don't want their help. They criticize me and say I smoke too much weed, yada yada yada. However; the fact of the matter is I don't like judgers, but I do like to smack them back with humor. I'd love to dress up like chicken and run in front of their land in Westcliffe CO.... It would freak em out and then it could be little skit.
If you are looking to do anything unusual as shock value I'd love to freak some of these folks out in any way clean.
You're wonderful, and love to see more of you.
Why not look at some smaller sponsors who actually need advertising to get people to know about their product and have a product that is mainly available via online store? Maybe you could go for a percentage of sales referrals over a flat sponsorship? You could get McDonalds or Dr Pepper or Miller, but your webovision viewers could actually buy things while watching your show if you go with an online store or specialty item people might buy online. Skype should sponsor you just for how many mentions they get per episode. You should hit up Purdy's chocolates. Not many people in the U.S. know about them, but you can order online to the US. Either that or a mid sized micro brew or a specialty soda like Green River or Jones Cola would be something where you could probably have a noticible impact on sales and you'd have some proof that thechannel works for sponsors. You're an upstart media and you should be looking at upstart advertisers.
Hey Tom. I just read your blog about sponsors. It's a shame the big players don't want to help out, but at the same time I'd rather them not stand in the corner and shake their head everytime you say "fuck". This is an uncensored, unedited, raw, talk show. The moment some prick tells you saying the word "fuck" isn't allowed, is the moment you kick their ass to the curb.
I'm curious to know what the major internet companies/websites have said about sponsoring the show? I mean I'm not in the business, so to ME personally it's almost a no brainer that a company like YouTube would help out with broadband costs? I mean, you visit YouTube every single show basically, you talk about how great YouTube is, so how come they're not helping out? I know they've got their own costs to worry about, but I'm sure they have a ton of money left over every month.
And finally in response to my previous email, I think the reason why I got confused was because there were 2 webcams on 1 monitor. I was just trying to figure that one out, but because it's for 2 separate computers that makes perfect sense. I'm retarded. :-)
sup Broseff,
In summary ur blog today basically shows how subscribers of the channel become the shareholders. We decide on the content of the show and becoming partners enables us to do whatever the FUCK we want!!! Let's start this enterprise together and who knows where it will take us all. One thing Tom, the channel is changing the history of how we view TV and webovision. I think this channel is only scracthing the surface of something really special. I invision big things to come in the not to distant future.
all the best,
pk
ps jump on the bandwagon and subscribe!!!
Did I just see a FLYING DONKEY?
There is no doubt broadcasting has evolved into this new form, where “a fat girl from ohio” well produce the next entertainment masterpiece of the year. But does everything evolve at the same pace? Nope. It is not only the medium of broadcasting that has changed, but, I believe also the way it is intended by its producers. I think the old model of using broadcasters to advertise products is not as powerful and successful as it once was... just look at the financial condition of the big networks. T.V is drying like the home telephone line. History is the best predictor of the future and as we have seen, what goes up must come down. The way companies advertise their products will change, it needs to change. I like to follow the KAIZEN philosophy, a Japanese word for “continuous improvement”, you have to adapt to the environment in order to be successful and survive. You have done this with the channel and that is why you will be successful. Being ahead of the curve is hard. Just as Edward Bernays revolutionized public relations and advertising in the 1930’s, there will be another revolutionary mind in the next couple years. This is social and business evolution the sooner the old suits realize they don’t understand and give up the sooner we can move forward at a faster pace. The way of advertising needs to be something very interactive. Using technology and creative thought to come up with cool, fun, “edgy” ways to promote a product and get the economy rolling. No wonder consumer confidence is so fucked, people just arn’t motivated to buy that new ford mustang they see in the same commercial format we’ve been seeing for 40 years. It’s all the same. There is a great BBC documentary called “the century of the self”, its amazing and i think very fitting to what is happening here on The Channel.
Anyway, just wanted to share some thoughts, get everyone on the web-o-vision thinking and motivated to subscribe. Tomgreen.com = kaizen.
In your latest blog you said, a subscription service won't work on TV. However this is wrong. Subscription services such as HBO prove this. Currently they have over 30 million subscribers and post an annual revenue of over 3 billion dollars. The difference between their model and yours is the quality of original programming that is available on HBO that isn't available anywhere else. If you want HBO you pay for HBO, and 30 million people have been convinced by their quality programming to do so.
So whats the difference between your model and theirs? First, it has nothing to do with TV but rather their quality of programming. Is the content that you provide good enough to attract enough paying customers? Also, HBO has broad appeal that increases their potential subscriber base. How large is the appeal of your business?
Lastly, consider this. As I said, HBO's business model has worked thus far because they have quality programming that is not available anywhere else. However, even this model is in threat because of the internet. And, it's not from people like you but its the ubiquitous nature of online video hosting sites that illegally allow users to download and stream HBO content that cause concern. And your website is by no means invulnerable to this type of exploitation as well.
This, of course, sums up the internet nicely I think. The internet is where you go for free content. Subscription media is failing. Look at major newspapers who are increasing their digital presence, and in some cases offering their content for free online such as The New York Times. People are never going to subscribe for 10-15 different websites online for their content, which is, ultimately, what you are asking them to do. People have too short of attention spans and inability to multi task to pay multiple different sites different rates for their entertainment, news, or leisure needs. I think we all want one stop shops for this. Isn't that whats great about TV? I pay one company and instantly have access to hundreds of different types of programming.
There may be potential in the online subscriber model for digital content, but it wont be with individual producers' sites like yours. I can envision in the future perhaps a sort of, digital cable company, where users pay a monthly fee to get access to hundreds of different, high quality, variety programs.
I think you should continue to seek funding from advertisers in all its digital forms. Rebuild your website to allow for greater ad penetration through banner, flash, or text ads. Continue to try and sell commercial space and product placement.
Work with the current content producers, not against them. And get your program on some of the larger online entertainment portals such as funnyordie.com or atom.com in order to increase your exposure and viewership.
I hope you read this. Just another opinion as you discuss the future of your business. I'm still a fan.
Tom,
Why did you stop the SAYNOW voice messages on your web site. Bruce and the guys at Midnight Mowing enjoyed sending you voice messages. Was my humor not funny? I was getting the impression you and your fans enjoyed the crazy messages. Oh well, so much for my comedy. LOL Da Air Freshener.
Check this out pretty crazy court case this was.
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