What Happened to OnBroadway &
jogle's favorite theatre resources?


Perhaps you were looking for one of the pages listed below.   

jogle's favorite theatre related resources   On Broadway WWW Info Page


Alas, neither of these sites exist any longer.  Here's my story...

In January of 2000, I joined the team at  theatre.com .  Theatre.com was quite a comprehensive  theatre site complete with News, Reference, Listings, Shopping, and Ticketing.  It was spearheaded by Toby Simkin , Internet and Theatre pioneer, who, in my humble opinion, is single handedly responsible for getting Broadway into Cyberspace. I was most excited about the idea of  joining theatre.com.  Our plan was to integrate the content of the above sites into the continuously growing wealth of theatre related information provided by theatre.com.    

Sometime soon after joining, theatre.com was acquired by the Broadway Television Network (BTN).  BTN's mission involved the taping and distribution of Broadway Shows on VHS/DVD and PPV.      BTN had their own Web site,  broadwaytv.com, and the two sites, for a little while, co-existed with broadwaytv.com providing information about BTN's video and broadcast offerings, and theatre.com continuing to provide News, Info, Shopping, and Listings.  

Toby left the company in August of 2000 to pursue other theatre related projects.  But even before Toby's departure, there were endless meetings where the future of the two sites was discussed.   In the end, it was decided that a new  site would be created, one that combined both the info and listings from theatre.com and the BTN offerings from broadwaytv.com into a single theatre Megasite.  The name of this new site:     BroadwayOnlLine.com   By the time work had begun on BOL, the integration of OnBroadway and jogle's favorites into theatre.com had already begun.  These sites too then , would become a part of the newly formed BroadwayOnLine.com.  


The development of the new site was a rocky one which involved several redesigns of the original theatre.com and broadwaytv.com sites (which never got officially deployed) and several more changes in BOL management.   However, work on the new site progressed forward, during which time OnBroadway and jogle's favorites maintained their separate identity.

On May 29, 2001, with the merging of the two sites finally completed BroadwayOnLine.com was officially introduced to the Internet. And with that, OnBroadway and jogle's favorites were officially made part of this new comprehensive site.  The URLs for OnBroadway and jogle's favorites were redirected to the appropriate page on the new site.   www.on-broadway.com was redirected to the BroadwayOnLine listings pages and www.on-broadway.com/links was redirected to a new Links area of BOL.

Fast forward 5 Months, to October 31, 2001.  Due to financial constraints,  BTN announced that they could no longer support the Internet branch of their business as they had in the past.  As such BTN was forced to let me, and all of the remaining original theatre.com staff,  go.

BTN still maintains the BroadwayOnLine site as a showcase for their video offerings.  It also still provides limited ticketing (Broadway shows only) and maintains a Reference Center: an archive, if you will, of all of the News reported by theatre.com.  The content that made up the OnBroadway and jogle's favorite pages, are still accessible from that Reference Center, though,  no longer being employed with BroadwayOnLine or Broadway Television Network, I cannot say whether the pages continue to be maintained.

As for me, I introduced OnBroadway and jogle's favorite, as a hobby, back when the Internet was young (1994).   After 7 years of updates, I am more than ready for a sabbatical from the on-line theatre arena.  I too, have moved on to pursue other interests, however, that being said, Broadway and theatre remain very close to my heart.   I fully expect to return to on-line theatre sometime in the future.  Doing what, remains to be seen, but I will be back!

Jogle, Feb 2002


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