I'm here at CES in Las Vegas, for another few hours anyway, and it's been quite an experience. It's hard to grasp the sheer enormity of it all, but I think I got to see everything I wanted to see.
We have full coverage at E-Gear.com. But I'm happy to have become, on Saturday, the first American journalist to interview both a sitting FCC chairman and a sitting host of "Jeopardy" on the same day. Some highlights:
- Yes, "Jeopardy" filmed near the Sony booth, and I got to see both a taping of this year's Tournament of Champions and speak with Trebek for about three minutes. I did not ask him about the Will Ferrell/SNL impression, but I did mention the Cliff Clavin/"Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?" episode of Cheers. Full story here.
- As for the FCC's Kevin Martin, I covered his "exit interview"- as he leaves when Dubya does in nine days- and he's against moving the DTV transition date. He also issued a full-throated defense of "indecency" fines, and at said he would also support banning junk food and cigarettes from programming aimed at children. Here's the full story; my favorite part was when someone asked Martin if the FCC has a position on "subliminal messages."
- NBC Universal is very proud of all of their content; here's my story on their booth at CES. I missed Maria Bartiromo, unfortunately.
- Sharp had a bunch of ballplayers signing autographs at their booth, including David Ortiz and Joba Chamberlain. Here's my story on the company's MLB sponsorship; I only saw Joba.
- Behold- the first-ever touchscreen Coke machine!
- And here are some cool iPod/iPhone accessories from a company called iLuv, including a dock that can charge multiple iPods and another that's also a four-disc CD changer.
And that's just what I saw in the three days I was here...
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 11, 2009 01:41 PM