CBS launches new internet TV channel "Innertube"

Today, CBS debuted a free, ad-supported broadband TV "channel" called "Innertube." Snip from TVWeek story:

Program offerings include sketch comedy, reality, talk, animation and music from CBS Entertainment, King World, CBS Paramount Network Television, CBS Paramount Domestic Television and Showtime. Innertube will also serve as a distribution outlet for episodes of programs from CBS's current prime-time lineup as well as material from CBS's library. CBS will also make available episodes of series that don't draw high enough ratings to remain on broadcast TV.

Link to story. Too bad they don't own innertube.com. Whups. CBS will make the "channel" available from this link on the CBS.com domain, and they've started by offering three shows there. The interface is built in Flash, which everyone on the internet just can't get enough of. (Thanks, D.A.!)

Reader comment: Rob Mills says,

"Innertube" was a short pilot produced by Jim Henson's Muppets in 1987, as the forerunner of what became "The Jim Henson Hour". It marked the first time a digital puppet character graced television screens. Part of this Wikipedia entry reads:

Digital puppetry was pioneered by the late Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets. The character Waldo C. Graphic in the Muppet television series The Jim Henson Hour is widely regarded to have been the first example of a digitally animated figure being performed and rendered in real-time on television and grew out of experiments Henson conducted in 1987 with a computer generated version of Kermit the Frog for InnerTube, which was the unaired television pilot for Jim Henson Hour.