Archive for » December, 2008 «

New Year's Eve Online

Ringing in the New Year, the following live streams are particularly enjoyable:

  • Earthcam captures celebrations around the world, starting early on Dec 31 (USA time).
  • CNN Live will have times square covered and more.
  • MSNBC Live
  • ABC Now
  • Spreety News Page is a more comprehensive listing of the online news sites that may play 2008 in review as well as live streams to ring in the new year.

For the singers out there, here are the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne.

Happy New Year!

College Football Bowl Games Online

Of the many college football bowl games this season, most can be found online at ESPN 360, including replays.

As for the top 5 BCS games, they were not legally online in January, 2008. The Spreety research team is monitoring the situation for 2009, and will post any legal updates as more information becomes available.

Jan 8 Update: Fox Sports will have the BCS Florida-Oklahoma game online, click here for the link.

For games not legally broadcast live on the Internet, the following are legal substitutes:

Christmas Shows Online

As an update to an earlier holiday post, there are plenty of Christmas episodes, music, movies, and specials to watch and listen to online.

The Spreety Holiday Entertainment page has several tabs of seasonal links to enjoy. For some browsers, if it does not render in a few seconds, click refresh.

Some of the highlights:

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Popular Shows Online (2.0)

The Spreety Popular Shows Online page has been updated to rank the top 20 shows based on member favorites and recently clicked.

Given the timing of this blog entry, it should be no surprise that ABC Family’s 25 Days of Christmas holds the top slot for recently clicked.

Finales (Dec 16-22)

With the holidays, the following are finales online this week:

Surprise Me

Have you ever had trouble making up your mind of what to watch online?

With over a thousand choices, it can be mind numbing to decide.

To help, a new Spreety feature has been added called “Surprise Me”. On any of the genre, decade, etc. pages, the Surprise Me button appears as a random selection of the choices on that page.

Take a chance, you just might enjoy it.

Heisman Trophy Presentation

On Saturday, December 13, at 8 pm ET, the 2008 Heisman Trophy Presentation will be broadcast live online at:

The finalists are:

  1. Sam Bradford, QB, Oklahoma
  2. Tim Tebow, QB, Florida
  3. Colt McCoy, QB, Texas
  4. Graham Harrell, QB, Texas Tech
  5. Shonn Greene, RB, Iowa

Finales (Dec 9-15)

With the holiday season, a few shows are wrapping up:

Dec 9: Boston Legal
Dec 13: The Starter Wife
Dec 15: Survivor: Gabon

Follow the links to catch the last few episodes online. In the case of Boston Legal, is it the series finale.

The Winner Is…

For the weekly Spreety Giveaways, the first winner of the $15 iTunes gift certificate has been selected via Random.org, and the odds were 1 in 5,136.

A winner notification e-mail has been sent to s********1290@yahoo.com.

Details are on the Spreety Giveaway page.

If you are new, be sure to sign up for next week.

Congratulations to our first winner.

Holiday Movies, Music, & Specials Online

The elves at Spreety have compiled a holiday list to watch and enjoy movies, music, specials, and classic full episodes of favorite shows for the season.