What’s all the Hoopla about Hulu?

What's all the Hoopla about Hulu?5.051

Our Entertainment Editor, Libby, wrote an article last week about Hulu and encouraged you to go out to our new customer portal and check it out.  She says it’s an easy way to watch all your favorite programs on the internet and I wonder, with my big two big TVs at home and my DVR why would I even want to do that?  I’m intrigued so I thought I’d explore this topic a bit further.   So off to the hulu.com site I go to see what all the Hulu hoopla’s about.

The Hulu company’s mission according to it’s website, is to “help people find and enjoy the world’s premium video content when, where and how they want it. ” Hulu, founded in 2007, offers all your favorite news, movies, sports, and series with new content added daily. TV, your way begins the Hulu product tour from the Hulu site.  The first thing that comes to mind is the fast food commercial about “having it your way” which some of you might remember.  “Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders won’t upset us.”  There’s no fast food feast on Hulu but there is a fast content feast for sure. Next Stop:  WOW!’s new home page to see how I get to the Hulu content from there.
To get to the Hulu content, go to the portal wowway.net and on the upper left  hand side next to “News” click on “TV”  From there you can watch thousands of videos from the WOW! homepage for free. Your WOW! homepage is now your ” one stop shop” for TONS of video content.  Click on a network and page through lots of selections. Or use the search engines to find a specific topic. For those who are fans of “The Bachelorette” there’s a deleted Ali and Frank scene you might find interesting in the most popular episode window.   For those of you who miss the Versus Channel you can pick it up online from here.  So much to watch, so little time.
A poll of my WOW! colleagues shows that we’ve got quite a few “hulu gurus” here and as usual, I’m behind on the technology curve.  Now that I’m up-to-speed though, it’s lunch time and I’m closing my door now so I can watch a Jimmy Kimmel interview with my favorite celebrity chef, Chef Ramsey, I found by searching on “Kitchen Nighmares.”

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  1. For someone new to the NCIS scene, hulu has been a fantastic way to catch up on old seasons and episodes!

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