High-tech coverage of the NYC plane crash
Steve Safran October 11th, 2006
A Fox photog streamed the first ground video live from his cell phone back to Fox News. “These are live pictures with new Fox News technology which allows our photographers and other personnel to stream live from their own cell phone,” Shep Smith said. A conventional camera crew set up a short time later, but those initial, shaky vids are a lesson in why stations need to provide cheap & quick solutions like this. (Photo from TVNewser) Also, CNN aired a great clip provided by a user through CNN.com’s new citizen journalism section, iReports (currently linked off the home page). And the local Fox station read posts from MyFoxNY.com’s member blogs on the air. (Thanks Charles!)
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1. Charles | October 11th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
FOX 5 has had Rick Folbaum come on every 15, 20 minutes or so and give an update on what people are saying about the crash on MyFOXNY’s member blogs.
2. adm | October 11th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Reuters video (I think) was carrying WABC’s “NewsChopper7″ feed live via Yahoo News. The reporter’s mic was on continually for an hour or more, but she didn’t seem to know her comments were being broadcast over the internet.
She referred to her chopper’s camera as “a hunk of junk,” teased her colleagues for being “useless,” and ridiculed an eyewitness who (somehow) passed on the tip that helicopters can’t be steered after running out of fuel (”We’ll be sure to thank him for his expertise.” And — this is the kicker — when told that LaGuardia wanted her to leave the airspace because they had “lost radar”, she said, “Well, tell them we left. They lost radar? Tell them we left. Tell them we’re in Newark.” When the bad weather approached from the south, she told her pilot to be careful, since “We don’t want to end up like them.”
Every 15 or 20 minutes, you could hear her talking to the anchors on the air, and then she’d go back to (good naturedly) harassing her co-workers.
3. Joe | October 11th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Back when the Afghan War started, it was predicted here that local TV stations would start using satellite phone technology they were using to cover combat. I disagreed and got pretty well hammered for it on this site. I knew, from working in the industry at the time, that local station managers would not be able to stomach the low visual quality of satellite phone video. Now with this new technology, and five years of change under our belt, I say that I wouldn’t be surprised if this starts popping on the Fox O&O stations before too long. There will still be managers who look askew at the fuzzy visuals, but I imagine they’ll be won over by the low cost of the technology.
4. IPTV Evangelist | October 11th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
I recall reading a post over a year, perhaps two years ago about BBC reporters using cell/video phones from the field and not Sat phones. As memory serves the quality was rather good so why the slow adoption here in the States?
-Unions?
-Quality not sufficient?
-Other?
On the Micro-Doc, Indie production side I have been interested in the Nokia N90 (VHS quality) since it first came out and I had an opportunity to play with it. Problem is you cannot upload more then a couple of minutes of content and at a small resolution… I know the Telco’s do not want people stressing their networks, same reason you are not allowed to use Verizon’s wireless card to http://FTP.
As to the post here that indicated the ABC mic stand (what we use to call reporters), was trashing her crew and their gear as they are getting the shot for her, I say make her carry an old RCA TK76 around all day…
5. Z | October 12th, 2006 at 2:18 am
As I recall, the BBC move was in part because Europe has a better overall wireless network than the U.S. does (they were 3G long before we were).
I’m not sure if there’s a gap there now or not. I’m told Asia kicks both continents’ asses in wireless networking.
6. Hairy | October 12th, 2006 at 4:53 am
Is this something fnc would want to brag about? They labeled it steaming video but looked more like blur still pictures.
7. Jack | October 12th, 2006 at 5:23 am
I just checked the MYFOXNY blogs and they had a total of 7 postings all day regarding the crash. In fact before yesterday the most recent posting was October 4.
8. Not Jack | October 13th, 2006 at 7:06 am
Jack obiously can’t read since there were more than 100 blog comments on the plane crash by 6pm on the myfoxny site.
9. Lost Remote TV Blog&hellip | October 13th, 2006 at 8:25 am
[...] As we reported Wednesday, Fox News had some of the first live video on the air from the scene of the NYC plane crash, thanks to a cell phone held by a Fox photographer. Turns out it was a Treo running CometVision software, which is set up to broadcast live video and audio with a touch of a button — even automatically alert newsroom staffers with email. The video was jumpy, of course, especially because of the cell phone congestion in the area. Fox News has used the set up before at the Amish school shooting. [...]
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