TeXtra, a tech news video show hosted by former TechCrunch writer Natali Del Conte, may be shutting down well shy of its first birthday this upcoming February 13. That’s because CNET has poached Natali away from Podshow, which owns TeXtra.
Del Conte, pictured right, will be moving from San Francisco to New York and joining the CNET TV team with a new news show, she says. It won’t be like TeXtra and a number of other tech news shows (webbalert, Rocketboom, PopSnap, Geekbrief, CommandN, etc.) that she describes as “camera, girl, news.” She’s not saying much about the format of the new show, other than it will be much different than TeXtra. She’ll cover CES in January for CNET, and the new show will start in February 2008.
The Textra show will likely be shut down – Podshow will not be looking for a replacement for Del Conte. They’ve had 101 shows so far, not including the highly entertaining outtake episodes.
There are a lot of rumors about Podshow floating around right now. The company has yet to have a bona fide hit and is reportedly talking to numerous venture capitalists about raising a third round of financing. The nearly $24 million they’ve raised in two rounds of financing may be running dry.
Her show has been very good! Hope she continues making another interesting one. We should get Scoble then unless he is going to re-join Microsoft..
You guys are spitting out creatives left and right. Good luck to Natali.
All the best for her new opportunity, but the show will be shut down because of her leaving is too much to believe
Podshow needs a technology hit and a show hit in order to be successful. They also need to seriously work on their branding and site design — it looks like amateur hour right now.
Geez, how did that show escape my radar… Natali is a fox!
Looking forward to whatever happens at CNet…
Been hearing those funding rumors as well…strong rumors that they’re just about out of money now. How long though till they can build a long term stable of top quality talent given many of them just don’t stay…
NATALI IF YOU ARE READING THIS I LOVE YOU.
*wriggles in restraints*
She is going to cnet? Where they fire critics for giving bad reviews to high paying advertisers? What a shame.
Best of luck Natali. I’ll miss Textra but look forward to seeing your new show.
I’l be sad to see this show goes down. Hope the new thing at CNET will be better.
I think Natali did an amazing (and hard) work balancing information, opinion an hype on such a short duration show. Also, being a foxy chick and still getting the audience to actually listen to the content (instead of just the presentation) is really hard work.
Good luck Nat
I invited her to Opernball last year. Never did hear back from her. Probably not her style.
Good for Natali. She finally gets to leave Podshow. Textra was the only Podshow show I had to watch despite my hate for the company and Adam Curry.
She should work for Vivid.
Hot!
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Good for Natali, Podshow was definately holding her back. Cnet TV seems like a better fit for sure.
a Pole Show would be nice too..
Best wishes to Natali.
She never got a fair shake from the large number of sexist computer types who comment at TechCrunch.
Talk about pole shows and such at your place of employment and you’d simply be fired for sexual harassment. Sooner of later the fickle finger of fate will land on you. Good.
She’s pretty
@18
By the she reach 35-50 years old… It will morph into prune juice. She will start screaming, kicking, and make husband buy more make up stuff. your cc# crash will go like this in real life.
$802,000
$721,232
$424,233
$222,322
$46,0354
yeap. She reach 60-80 years old. she will start stealing health care system and get better medicine.
What is it about women with knives that turns me on so much to them?!?
@David
Note the Harry Potter outfit – it’s a wand (which may give you other issues)
@bm,
dude, don’t take away all the fun from my illusions…
use your illusion, it’s fun and better than reality.
Congratulations Natali! It’s been interesting to watch your vicissitudes in the tech/geek world – and your unwavering passion for journalism despite the neanderthals who scream and drool at you.
Hope to see you at another Women 2.0 event.
Angie
Oh podshow is definitely a sunk ship…. after putting up:
http://www.adam...sadouchebag.com I’ve received a ton of emails from podshow folk… thing is – is Adam Curry over?
WooT! Another fantastic NYC acquisition!
One by one, everyone’s starting to show up in NYC for 2008… This is getting like “Heroes”!
Welcome, Natali!
If you’re reading Natali, I love your show and am very interested in your new show, because as far as I can conceive from this article, it will be more in-depth than TeXtra. I especially enjoyed the way you reported all the news in geek land. Also the radio interview on the Desert Island Geek podcast was nice to listen to, it shows a part of the person behind the news reader.
Meu nome é Dimas Del Conte, sou do Brasil, será que somos parentes?