Major news!

Buckyhoo hired for inaugural program on CNN’s mobile network

 

April 1 - Atlanta, GA - (AP) – CNN announced today that it has tapped Kenan-Flagler student and blogosphere sensation Buckyhoo as the new host of a program aimed at extending the network’s presence into mobile platforms.

 

CNN’s Vice President of Mobile Programming, Dean Canterbury, said that the program marks with CNN’s strategy of deploying its programming content beyond the television.  “We started in 1980 with a 24/7 all news television channel, continued in the 90s with an internet presence, now the next frontier is handheld devices.”

 

Starting April 9, This Week with Buckyhoo will “air” every Sunday at noon and will be available to customers of mobile services such as Blackberry and Verizon VCast.  Other customers can purchase the program via iTunes for $1.99.  The one hour program will feature live as well as taped guest interviews and edgy social commentary from Buckyhoo.

 

Reached at the McColl Faculty Lounge, where he was busy catching up on the last three weeks of his managerial accounting class, Buckyhoo said “this will give me a nice excuse to get out of Chapel Hill on the weekends. This town has lost its charm ever since Off Franklin ran out of business in January.”

 

Media analyst P. Rick Turner said CNN will be able to use Buckyhoo to attract a young audience to its new mobile offerings. However, not everyone is equally enthusiastic about the new program’s potential. Mary Smith, the Franklin Koury Moorehead Professor of ethical strategic entrepreneurial management communications at Kenan-Flagler Business School recalled having had Buckyhoo as a student during the core. “I hope he takes this assignment more seriously than he took my class, where he often showed up unprepared, and made the most off base, offensive, and unsubstantiated claims during class discussion. Frankly, if I want that type of sarcasm, I’d speak to my children.”