Run, Oscar and Emmy! Joan and Melissa make a cyber-comebaaaack!
Last September, Gold Derby warned you how tough it would be for Joan and Melissa Rivers to get back on the kudos red carpet doing a live TV show after having split with the only two cable networks doing live shows right now: E! and TV Guide Channel. (CLICK HERE)
Those rascally Rivers gals tried teaming up with VH1's website just to do fashion commentary, and they probably plotted behind the scenes to get the network to launch a live TV show too, but that would probably cost a million bucks. Nothing happened.
Last month, they unveiled a new cyber partnership with AOL that didn't put them on the Oscar carpet outside the Kodak Theatre, but they built their own in cyberspace and dished their views afterward. Now their report card is in.
Joan and Melissa Rivers' "Red Carpet Rundown" on AOL, "with more than 1.4 million hits in its first four hours, was the second-most-watched program on AOL the day after the Academy Awards, " reports the New York Post. READ MORE.
That's nice. But "hits" are not the standard industry measure of viewership in cyberspace. What matters are "page views," a tally that's usually far lower than "hits." Hey, AOL: How many page views did the gals get and why are you hiding behind the "hits" number? This video below had about 270,000 viewings. See more CLICK HERE
