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TVTalkShows.com Is A Daytime Talk Arena - Hollywood Reporter
TVTalkShows.com is a popular message board where users chat and spread rumors about daytime TV. - New York Post (Page Six)
TVTalkShows.com is a popular fan website devoted to talk shows. - TVWeek (formerly Electronic Media)
Many tv talk show producers post on this site looking for potential guests for their talk shows. - TVTalkShows.com Webmaster Trevor Rieger
TVTalkShows.com is NOT RESPONSIBLE for your state of mind and mental illness. If you decide to post on these boards, remember this... THE CONTENT POSTED BELONGS TO TVTALKSHOWS.COM! If you don't like this rule then don't post! Other than that happy posting on the TVTalkShows.com fan boards!
Warning Notice to talk show conglomerate corporations:
TVTalkShows.com is an informative satire parody talk show FAN website since 1995. TVTalkShows.com is NOT RELATED to any of the talk shows (although it DOES communicate with several of the shows) so please DO NOT email the TVTalkShows.com webmaster Trevor Rieger with your dysfunctional problems. Go to Jerry Springer's website for that! I, Webmaster Trevor Rieger, pay out-of-pocket expenses to keep my own web server up and running on a daily basis. So before you send me one of those nasty cease & desist letters, just remember one thing....Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds It! Learn a lesson from Studios USA several years ago.....
Studio Launches Legal Assault On Talk-Show Site PART I Electronic Media August 28, 2000
According to fans of a popular Web site, Studios USA is trying to bite the hand that feeds it. On Aug.17, Webmaster Trevor Rieger received a cease-and-desist notice from Studios USA ordering him to pull pictures of himself appearing on "Maury" and "Sally Jessy Raphael" from Tvtalkshows.com. The pictures have been on the site for four years. With about a quarter of a million unique visitors a month at the fan site, Mr. Rieger is urging the site's visitors to boycott Studios USA series in retaliation. "I am absolutely shocked at Studios USA giving me a cease-and-desist letter." Mr. Rieger said. "My site was here long before Studios USA ever thought of having one. Studios USA needs all the free promotion they can get to compete against all of the other talk shows and highly successful court shows. I dare anybody to find me a fan Web site about a celebrity, movie star or even talk show host without a picture of the person they are devoting their site to. To me, it is kind of ironic that the same people that I promote for free are the exact same people that want to shut my Web site down." The Webmaster has pulled all links to the company's Web site from the page, encouraging users to e-mail the company in protest. Studios USA had no comment on the situation. In the cease-and -desist letter, the company stated: "It has recently come to our attention that your site on the World Wide Web (located at "TVTalkShows.com") prominently displays copyrighted and trademarked material taken from the Property, including, but not limited to, Studios USA's logo, still images, quotes, sound bytes and musical recordings. Your unauthorized use of the Property constitutes an infringement of the exclusive and valuable copyrights of Studios USA, and is in violation of both state and federal laws concerning trademark and copyright protection, unfair competition and dilution." "There's tons of stuff that goes unnoticed on the Internet, and they may feel that if [Mr. Rieger is] providing links to their official sites, fans may feel he's officially affiliated with Studios USA." Mr. Rieger said that the most ironic part of the order is that Studios USA had logged on to the message boards on the site to promote its own shows. "I am flattered that Studios USA is posting on TVTalkShows.com message boards," he said. "Even though they keep changing their user names, they always include Maury's or Jerry's Web site address. Clearly, they need me and my traffic."
Studios USA Comes To Its Legal Senses PART II Electronic Media September 5, 2000
Just What Were They Thinking??? The legal eagles at Barry Diller's Studios USA spent the better part of the last few weeks embarrassing themselves by launching a legal assault on a popular fan Web site, TVtalkshows.com, then backing off as soon as word got out. After stumbling onto photos from "Maury" and "Sally Jesse Raphael" on the site, Mr. Diller's crack legal team slapped a cease-and-desist order against Webmaster Trevor Rieger on Aug. 17, citing copyright infringement. Studios USA reversed itself 11 days later, the same day news of the legal scuffle ran in Electronic Media. On that date, Aug. 28, Studios USA granted Mr. Rieger a license to use the photos on his site. One thing the lawyers apparently hadn't realized - maybe they didn't get the memo - was that Studios USA's own promotional team has been using the four-year-old Web site to help promote the company's shows. The PR folks recognized what the legal department didn't: Free publicity is free publicity, and with about a quarter of a million visitors the site each month, having a strong presence there is good for business. To their credit, the attorneys quickly realized the foolishness of their knee-jerk response and pulled the plug on what was about to turn into an ugly fight - a fight Mr. Rieger has already begun billing on his site as David vs. Goliath. Clearly, Studios USA figured out at the point that its best option was to cut its losses and avoid any more negative publicity. That 180-degree shift may be a sign of the times, shedding light on the fact that, in the digital age, the notion of copyright isn't quite what it used to be. These days, legal crusades by big media firms to keep the Internet's little guys from using protected photos, trademarks and other properties seem more than a little nit-picky and anachronistic. We congratulate Studios USA for belatedly seeing the light, and hope this embarrassing episode serves as a warning for other firms to get the big picture before tripping over their own feet in the rush to prove their legal prowess.
TV talk show superfan Trevor Rieger has a gabfest topic of his own: "I'm a talk show superfan who's now being turned upon by the industry I've been promoting on the Web." The Oakland, Calif., resident has hosted a Web site for four years. It's even more popular, when comparing the number of messages left on message boards, than the official sites for the talk shows themselves, Rieger said. The site has impressive numbers, including 2.8 million hits in July, 245,000 unique visitors and an average stay of nearly 11 minutes. Rieger launched the site soon after his return from Desert Storm. It began as a biographical site, but when he started attending talk shows while stationed in New Jersey, he added the information and his insights. Rieger also decorated the site with pictures of himself with Sally Jessy Raphael and Maury Povich, taken during some of the 200 talk shows he claims to have attended in his life. "It's kind of addicting," he said. But now, he's going cold turkey, ever since Studios USA Talk Television, which produces shows hosted by Maury Povich, Sally Jessy Raphael and Jerry Springer, gave him until last Friday to take the pictures down from his site. "Studios USA has every intention of protecting its interests in the Property to the full extent provided under the law," writes studio attorney Safronia Johnson. Rieger has so far refused to take down the pictures, and they were still up on his Web site hours past the Friday deadline that Studios USA set. Studios USA had no comment on what it will do because Rieger is defying the cease and desist. Rieger, meanwhile, is fighting back. He said he's begun blocking all traffic to the official fan Web sites for the talk shows. And he's turned his own site into a soapbox for his battles with Studios USA, including calling for a boycott of their shows. "I think they're mad because I get more fans on my message boards than their talk show message boards," Rieger said.
Are you ready for Live with Regis and Kelly? It might not roll off the tongue just yet, but, if reports are correct, we better get used to it. According to publications as varied as the Hollywood Reporter, New York Post and the Website TVtalkshows.com, All My Children star Kelly Ripa is the leading contender to become the next Kathie Lee Gifford opposite Regis Philbin on the daytime gabfest.While official sources are mum, there are, of course, several key clues that she is the pick. According to TVtalkshows.com, Disney, the studio that produces the show, has purchased the domain name rights to "www.LivewithRegisandKelly.com." Webmaster Trevor Rieger tells the New York Post that he accidentally happened across the Regis and Kelly association while doing a routine search on the Net.
Web Feat: Revealing Regis' New Co-Host? New York Post (Page Six) February 2, 2001
It's starting to look like Regis Philbin has found his new co-host - and she's a real Kelly Girl. Showbiz buzz - and a startling new cyberclue - suggest that soap star Kelly Ripa will be Regis Philbin's new partner on "Live with Regis." Ripa, who stars on "All My Children" and has co-hosted with Philbin several times, is considered a front-runner for the job. Sources said that although Ripa is still under contract with the soap, making the leap to "Live" shouldn't pose too much of a problem because the shows are produced by the same company. "Live" producers are strongly leaning toward keeping Ripa on the show permanently and could make the announcement any day, an insider told The Post. At least one trade report claimed yesterday the announcement would come Monday. "We cannot confirm anything yet," "Live" executive producer Michael Gelman said. Swirling the rumors even more is the discovery that Disney has obtained the rights to a new Web site domain named livewithregisandkelly.com. Disney Enterprises Inc., the parent company of "Live" producer Buena Vista Television, officially registered the Web site name on Jan. 10. "Usually whenever there's a new talk show, movie or television series the producers always want to find a Web site name first," said Trevor Rieger, an Oakland, Calif.-based Web master who first discovered that Disney had bought the domain name. Rieger, a former Army corporal and Desert Storm veteran, posted the news on his Internet site, TVTalkShows.com. He said he stumbled across livewithregisandkelly.com while running a routine search on the Internet. "I looked up who registered this name and wow, it was Buena Vista and Disney," he said. "So I think they knew a couple of weeks ago exactly who they want to have as co-host." Philbin stopped short of announcing who will replace Kathie Lee Gifford earlier this week on the show. "One day really soon we are going to make the announcement," he said. The search for Gifford's replacement has been heating up since she abandoned the show last July after 15 years. In the past eight months, a long stream of potential co-hosts have shared the stage with Philbin, including his wife, Joy.
Confirming last week's prediction by an Internet sleuth, Disney announced Monday that soap opera star Kelly Ripa would be Regis Philbin's permanent co-host on his daytime talk show. The announcement came following last Thursday's report by Oakland, CA-based Trevor Rieger, who operates the TVTalkShows.com site, that Disney Enterprises had registered the Internet domain name livewithregisandkelly.com. (On his Web site Monday, Rieger proposed this Millionaire question for Philbin: "What Website First Discovered that Kelly Ripa Was Going to Be My New Co-host? (A) New York Post (B) Hollywood Reporter (C) Access Hollywood (D) TVTalkShows.com; Answer: (D) ) Ripa, who was referred to as a Kathie Lee Gifford "look-alike" by several writers, reportedly plans to continue her role on the ABC soap All My Children after joining Live.
By recently registering the Internet domain www.livewithregisandkelly.com, the producers of Regis Philbin's morning talk show may have tipped off who his new co-host will be, the New York Post observed today (Friday). The Post speculates that it will be Kelly Ripa, who currently stars on the soap opera All My Children. The newspaper said that Disney Enterprises Inc., the parent of Buena Vista Television, which produces the Philbin show, officially registered the name of the Web site on Jan. 10. The registration was spotted by Trevor Rieger who operates the internet site TVTalkShows.com. Fans of the show who posted messages on Rieger's site approved of Ripa's apparent selection unanimously. An official announcement is expected to be made on Monday.
Web Smut Shuts Springer Site! New York Post (Page Six) 2001
The producers of "The Jerry Springer Show" pulled the plug on its online bulletin boards to crack down on Web surfers who used words to emulate the bawdy bashing typically seen on their favorite talk shows. The official online bulletin boards for "Maury" and "Sally Jessy Raphael" were also switched off. The sites, in which talk show fans from around the word have engaged in colorful discourse, were shut down Monday at midnight. A StudiosUSA spokesman said the company yanked the boards because many of the posts on the Web site were too raunchy. "There was vulgar language on the forums and we took them down because we want to run a family-oriented Web site," the spokesman said. The studio first alerted users that the boards were first getting the ax last week. At least one user said that the decision probably stemmed from months of profanity-laced arguments that had been taking place among the boards' regulars. "I wish to warn others about other StudiosUSA message board writers who are nasty reactionary individuals who engage in personal and other forms of...attacks they are uncapable of refuting opposing points of views," wrote a user named Fred95018 on a popular, free-for-all Web site called www.tvtalkshows.com. The Web site has watched its' traffic increased by about 13,000 page views since StudiosUSA pulled the plug, said Trevor Rieger, the Oakland, Calif.-based Web master who oversees the site.
Big Brother thru 2004 New York Post June 15, 2001
CBS has laid the groundwork for at least three more years of "Big Brother. " The network owns the domain names for "Big Brother" Web sites through 2004, an Internet search revealed. The reality show locks a group of strangers in a house crammed with cameras and microphones. Everything that transpires airs on nightly broadcasts and live over the Internet 24 hours a day. Last summer viewers could log on to www.bigbrother2000.com to see the housemates in action. This year, when the show returns, viewers will be able to log onto www.bigbrother2001.com. But CBS also owns the rights to bigbrother2002.com through bigbrother2004.com. A CBS official confirmed that the domain names had been reserved last year when
the original show was hitting the air. The domain names for "Big Brother" Websites after 2004 are registered to non-CBS-affiliated individuals, an Internet search revealed. Trevor Rieger a former Army corporal and Desert Storm veteran, posted the news on his Internet site, TVTalkShows.com yesterday.
"Iyanla" Has Shut Down Production -- TVTalkShows.com TVBarn January 14, 2002
And over on the TVTalkshows.com message board, disturbing news for "Iyanla" fans: the show has shut down production, according to an unconfirmed report.
Rob Nelson Cuts Staff In Half -- TVTalkShows.com TVBarn November 23, 2002
Insider: "Half the staff is quitting" Rob Nelson's show (IP address tracks back to Sony) TVTalkShows.com
Jenny Jones Rumor On TVTalkShows.com TVBarn April 5, 2002
Trevor seems to have rescued his board from the angry Korean hackers. He's back with what might be his third big scoop of the year: The director of the "Jenny Jones" show, which is said to be in trouble, reportedly walked out, according to a mole who posted to Trevor's TVTalkshows.com board: "Jenny's director was asked to take a 65% decrease in his salary next season. Needless to say he's didn't accept. Is the show being canceled or what?" (The answer is "or what" for now.)
Is "The Ricki Lake Show" in trouble? -- TVTalkShows.com TVBarn February 27, 2002
Is "The Ricki Lake Show" in trouble? That's what this anonymous poster to TVTalkshows.com alleges. "Ricki will produce no more than six shows in the middle of March. ... After that no one on the show understands what is going to happen to the show or them." Anonymous posters aren't always right, of course, but the one who told the same Web site last month that "Iyanla" was doomed was on the money.
Skeptics Shut Down John Edward Site -- TVTalkShows.com TVBarn September 26, 2001
Skeptics shutter John Edward site. Our pals at tvtalkshows.com have learned that Studios USA, producer of the cable and syndicated versions of "Crossing Over with John Edward," has shut down the official message board for the shows because of the "venom" of skeptics posting messages at the site.
Move Over JerrySpringer.com -- TVTalkShows.com 2CreateaWebsite March 31, 2001
TVTalkShows.com won't knock you down with its design or layout, but it must be doing something right. According to PC Data Online, Trevor Rieger's site, TVTalkShows.com gets more traffic than the heavily promoted Ricki Lake and Jerry Springer sites. It has also gotten the attention of the New York Times. What's Trevor's secret? It's simple. He built a web site on his passion and continues to develop it daily. His revenue comes from banner networks that pay him for the traffic he brings to them.
One Man Fan Site Beats Bloated Competitors -- TVTalkShows.com AssociatePrograms March 31, 2001
Trevor Rieger calls his site, TVTalkShows.com, "the biggest dysfunctional fan site on the Internet". Last month it had 100,000 unique visitors, and that figure soars much higher, such as in August last year when Oprah's lawyers tried to get him to remove her name from the site. He had 224,000 unique visitors that month. According to PC Data Online, Trevor gets more traffic than the heavily promoted Ricki Lake and Jerry Springer sites. "Who says you have to have millions of dollars to run a site?" Trevor says. "When a fan web site can gain MORE traffic than a bloated million-dollar web site run by a media conglomerate, that just shows that when it comes to the web, everybody is equal." Trevor, a former Army corporal and Desert Storm veteran who lives in Oakland, California, runs the site with no employees. His WebTrends stats show that in April TVTalkShows.com had: 101,487 unique visitors 235,017 user sessions 1,196,351 page views Average visitor session length 11:51 10,091 postings on the message boards Much of his advice on how to create and run a successful site is fairly unconventional - but it works. "The first tip in building a successful site is you HAVE to have a PASSION for it," Trevor says. Trevor certainly has a passion for his subject. He has attended 200 TV talk shows. "If you don't have a passion for building a website, DON'T DO IT! That even goes if you want somebody else to create one for you, because you will never ever be satisfied by the way it looks and the design of it. So the first step is to build your own from scratch." Trevor also advises you to ignore "self-ordained, self-proclaimed search experts". If you listen to them, "you will only get a bad headache from worrying about your competitor and where they and you stand in search results". In a previous newsletter Trevor described how he ranked highly on search engines by not listening to so-called experts: http://www.associateprograms.com/search/newsletter116.shtml To see how well he ranks at Google, try this search: http://www.google.com/search?q=talk+shows Trevor's site is number one - out of 1.8 million search results. "You should ONLY EMPLOY YOURSELF to run and maintain your web site," Trevor says. "I have no problems doing this since I already have two computer degrees. But for those of you that don't know HTML, buy a book and learn the old 1994 HTML 2.0 code. The old code is just that - straight HTML. My site has NO frames, NO flash, NO javascript, NO graphics, NO buttons, just text, text, text. In other words ... keep it simple, stupid! "That way the search robots will have a very easy time crawling through your site no matter how big it gets." (Google has indexed 8,830 pages of TVTalkShows.com.) "Simplicity is the secret to a successful website. You must have every page on your site load fast even for a 14.4 modem. If you want your web site to be very popular, don't create a brochure on the Internet. Do not let your site be just a window display in a store. "You need to have people not just come in and leave, but come in the store and actually mingle with the other customers. You need interactivity to be effective and give people a reason to keep going to your web site every day, even several times a day. "Listen closely, I do not keep my site FRESH! I will say this one more time ... I do not update my website on a daily basis. Why? I do not need to. I have my visitors keep my site fresh and do the dirty work for me by posting messages about talk show news and gossip on my boards." Dirty work? That's putting it mildly. If you're easily offended, you won't want to read some of the off-topic posts on Trevor's unmoderated, uncensored message boards. Think of graffiti, and you'll get the picture. "I have employed thousands of people for free just by giving them a voice to be heard and posted on a forum," he says. "Once you understand that the Internet was created for people to communicate back and forth by typing text, then you will begin to see that your web site is just a tool for people to use. "Because of this, people post over 500 new messages a day on my site, and since many of these posters are producers and staff on talk shows that post anonymously, the news media also check my boards on a daily basis for hot tips about these same shows. "Because of this, the prestigious New York Post has written five articles about my site in the past 12 months. I have been interviewed on CNet Radio twice this year as well." Two years ago his site was filled with ads. "I was an affiliate for at least 20 different companies. My web site looked like just a big affiliate site with very little content at all. "The site was a complete disaster and I was pandering to sponsors that had no reason at all to hog room on my pages." So he got rid of all the affiliate programs. "Now, I just have DoubleClick as my only ad banner on my site. I wouldn't be making a lot of money if I was pulling in only the average 0.5% click-through rate, but since I average almost a 5% click-through rate, I am making a decent living." UPDATE, January 2002: THEN: Google had indexed 8,830 pages of TVTalkShows.com NOW: Google has indexed 19,300 pages! Well over 100% increase in 8 months! THEN: TVTalkShows.com was ranked #1 on Google out of 1.8 million. NOW: TVTalkShows.com is ranked #1 on Google out of 2.3 million! THEN: 500 messages a day were posted on TVTalkShows.com NOW: 1,100 messages a day are posted on TVTalkShows.com. Over a 100% increase! Very impressive for any site, let alone a one-man show.
Here's a website which is having truly astounding success with high rankings in the main search engines. It's Trevor Rieger's "TV Talk Shows". Here's a fast way to see how successful Trevor is. Go to the new meta search engine IXquick - http://www.ixquick.com - and type in "talk shows". TVTalkShows.com is at the top, scoring an amazing 9 stars for being in the top 10 results on 9 major search engines. His nearest competitor for the "talk shows" search term scores only 2 stars. Try searching for "TV talk shows" and there's Trevor's site again in the top spot, with 8 stars. However, he ALSO appears on that IXquick page in the number two spot AND in the fifth spot. There's more... IXquick doesn't search Google, DirectHit or Northern Light. Type in "talk shows" on all of them, and Trevor's site is number 1. (Google is very important because it will be Yahoo's default search engine from August 1, replacing Inktomi.) IXquick also doesn't search Ask Jeeves, which a lot of people use. Type in "talk shows". Yes. You can guess who is number one. Trevor also has the top spot for "talk shows" on Go2Net.com (MetaCrawler) and AllTheWeb (Fast Search). Next, try going to Webhelp.com and type in "Where is the best talk show site?" Answer: TVTalkShows.com. The same happens at AskMe.com "With help from sites like these, who needs to pay search engines for placement?" Trevor says. He doesn't have top spot on GoTo.com - but he IS number three. Trevor points out that on GoTo.com the number one and number two sites are paying 14 and 15 cents per click. "Who is paying for spot number 3? TVTalkShows.com with just 3 cents! Why don't I pay 16 cents for #1 you might ask? I DON'T NEED TO! "Number 1, AskMe.com, already tells people to go to my site when they want a question about talk shows. "Number 2, BMG Music, is just there because they have a CD called 'Talk Shows'. "So where are people going to click when they type 'talk shows?' Number 3! At 3 cents per click!" Trevor doesn't try to hide what he is doing to achieve high rankings in search engines. He says he has never used cloaking and does not have redirected pages. "I don't believe in those 'fake page' services from people who just want your money," he says. "I get about 40% of my visitors from search engines but most of my traffic comes from people bookmarking my site and adding it to their favorites list. And from thousands of fan links on their homepages telling people to check out my site. "Word of mouth has also put me up there in the popularity search." Trevor says that because so many people are trying to fool the search engines, many of them are placing more importance on popularity ranking - which is fine with him, because he's number one on the search engines which do that. KEYWORD DENSITY: Helping Trevor achieve all those high rankings is the way he has managed to use the words "TV talk shows" repeatedly in the first few paragraphs of the main page and then repeat them occasionally after that. As you know, keyword density is extremely important in search engine optimization. KeywordDensity.com - http://www.keyworddensity.com/ - says: "To rank highly, your keyword density must not be too high or too low. A density of 1% to 7% is generally considered good." However, when I tested the main page at TVTalkShows.com today, I found a keyword density of only 43.94% for the phrase "tv talk shows" and only 31.1% for "talk shows". So Trevor has his keyword densities seriously wrong, it would appear. (At the moment, TVTalkShows.com has a very long news item on its main page. Replacing that with a much shorter one could have a dramatic effect on keyword densities.) META TAGS: If you've been studying what some misguided search engine "experts" say about meta tags, I strongly recommend that you study the TVTalkShows.com meta tags and see what really is acceptable - or at least ignored by - search engines today. TVTalkShows.com's meta tags include: Adding keywords inside the "author" tag obviously doesn't do any harm. I'm sure you've read some experts' advice that such repetition is bad. Well, it works for Trevor. Trevor manages to cram all these repetitions into his site's description: TV Talk Shows TVTalkShows.com tv talk show latenight and daytime talk shows How's that for focus! Just three words - the ones which people who are searching for his site are mostly likely to use. TV Talk Shows = TVTalkShows.com Again, repetition works in the title, in two different forms. By the way, although I've had some success with search engines, I am most definitely NOT an expert in this field. Also, I give no guarantee whatsoever that methods which work today will still work tomorrow. However, I reckon TVTalkShows.com is worth studying VERY closely.
