Blue Room

AT&T Censors Anti-Bush Lyrics From Pearl Jam Webcast

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 9, 2007 - 4:00pm.

Los Angeles - AT&T censored portions of Pearl Jam's performance from its live webcast of the Lollapalooza music festival this weekend, which the company later said was a mistake and promised to repost the performance in its entirety, according to reports. Removed was a portion of one song where the band segued into Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall," when singer Eddie Vedder improvised the lyrics, "George Bush, leave this world alone," and, "George Bush, find yourself another home." AT&T told Billboard the incident was "a mistake by a Webcast vendor," adding, "We have policies in place with respect to editing excessive profanity, but AT&T does not censor performances. We very much regret that this happened in the first place."

AT&T's Blue Room to Offer Live Lollapalooza Webcast

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 31, 2007 - 3:40pm.

San Antonio, Texas - AT&T said on Tuesday that its blue room broadband entertainment site will offer an exclusive live webcast of the 2007 Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. Webcasts from the festival, of which AT&T is the presenting sponsor, will begin at 12:30 p.m. CT on each of the three days of the festival, which kicks off on Friday.

AT&T Offers 14-Day Free Trial of Blizzard's "World of Warcraft"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 5, 2007 - 3:49pm.

San Antonio, Texas - AT&T announced on Thursday that it has partnered with Vivendi's Blizzard Entertainment to offer a 14-day free trial of the popular "World of Warcraft" massively multiplayer online game. The AT&T blue room gaming site will host the offer, which figures as the longest free trial of the game available online. "World of Warcraft" currently claims 8.5 million players, while AT&T counts 12 million high speed Internet lines.

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AT&T to Offer "Three-Screen" Coverage of 2007 Masters Tournament

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 26, 2007 - 2:18pm.

San Antonio, Texas - AT&T announced on Monday that it will offer "three-screen" coverage of the 2007 Masters golf tournament, across the mobile phone, television and the PC. Online coverage will be available through AT&T's Blue Room broadband site, while TV coverage will be offered on its U-verse digital TV service, and mobile coverage through Cingular. The company will produce exclusive player interviews, live online coverage from "Amen Corner," and feeds from the practice range and Green Jack ceremony.

AT&T Launches Blue Room Broadband Portal for Music, Sports, Games

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 5, 2006 - 2:48pm.
San Antonio, Texas - AT&T announced on Thursday that it has combined a number of broadband entertainment sites for live music, sports and video games into a single portal called AT&T Blue Room. The site will include the company's live webcasts of concerts such as Coachella and Lollapalooza, peeks into the homes of famous athletes, a network of top blogs, and a new gaming section that will offer game demos, previews, tips and other video game programming.

AT&T to Stream Live Webcasts of Lollapalooza

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 1, 2006 - 3:15pm.
San Antonio, Texas - AT&T announced on Tuesday that it will provide live daily webcasts of performances from the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago this week. The company's AT&T Blue Room feature will stream live performances from artists including Wilco, Sleater-Kinney and Ryan Adams. Blue Room will also offer a 24-hour streaming radio station featuring interviews and performances from past and present Lollapalooza artists.