Colbert Nation

Colbert Nation (http://www.colbertnation.com/home) is the website of Comedy Central’s ongoing show “The Colbert Report.” I think it’s significant because it has clips from all episodes of the broadcast show online, free for anyone to view. Comedy Central seems to do this for a lot of its shows: “South Park,” “The Daily Show,” and several other key series for the network feature the ability to view show clips and even full episodes free online. Despite this, Comedy Central is an extremely profitable network. I think that this proves that eventually, Television could be done entirely through the internet and websites. There are a few other networks that do this; some even go so far as to make Alternate Reality Games on their websites based around the featured series. I know Adult Swim (Cartoon Network’s late-night section) have clips and new episodes for all their series available for free online; they even used to premiere new episodes online a couple days before the broadcast premiere. Looking at all these stations do this makes me really think that eventually, we could see TV played out entirely online.