Blast from the Past

About a year ago I started a rant about how NBC gave a perfect example of how not to do a promotion. Laura and I were some of the dozens who watched the ill-fated "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (I'd link to it but all of the pages are dead on the NBC site. Granted, it wasn't the greatest show, but it did have its moments.

the episode that got me all worked up was a Christmas episode that feature a beautiful brass rendition of "Oh Holy Night" by artists part of Tipitina's Foundation. As the site states:

The mission of the Tipitina’s Foundation is to restore Louisiana’s irreplaceable music community and preserve the state’s unique musical cultures.

These artists were a part of one of the minor plot-lines, which obviously was to promote the foundation and keep the rebuilding efforts in mind. After the powerful performance that ended the show and certainly left me wanting more, viewers were told to go to the NBC's site to download a free copy of the song and learn more about Tipitina's Foundation.

Proving that it had already written off the show and had (and has) no intention of really caring about its fans, it took a week before an actual link was posted on the web to Tipitina's, and another before the promised "free download" was offered.

Again sadly, the show site is dead and the video is offline, but you can still go to the Tipitina's Foundation site and get the mp3 here.

Hopefully the enclosure link will work too, and you can listen to the audio in your newsreader too.