One day into its experiment with free online NCAA Tournament broadcasts, CBS has to be feeling pretty good: Demand for the service was high, and the station’s network was up to the workload.
At one point yesterday, some 268,000 Web users were watching games online. Early in the day, viewers had to slog through longish lines in virtual "waiting rooms" to watch the broadcasts, but by the midafternoon, most boosters and bracketologists were able to get to the video almost immediately. (MarketWatch)
CBS has tried to endear itself to office workers across the country by equipping its online video viewer with a "Boss Button" — which, when clicked, obscures the basketball feed with a marginally convincing image of a spreadsheet-in-progress. (At least, that’s what the Wired Campus, an intrepid defender of office productivity, has heard.)
