it’s a gimmick.

the lone exception being that yet-to-be built tv station’s on maui.

you know the one.

after some more thought, the weather radars are actually a net positive; the weather channel is making hay, right? $5 billion will make you the new owner of a bunch of weather radars!!!

maybe they just need their own screen. which will probably be one of the things they consider later as they add video feeds from around the world. yes, they said those are coming.

judging by the number of positive comments left here vs. the usual drubbing new launches receive here, one might think this thing has a good chance. couple that with its sponsor who has no problem throwing $ at the net and the possibilities are endless.

still don’t like call letters though.

And the weather radars? Likely won’t go away. LiveNewsCameras.com has no real say in what’s being fed at any given moment. So that means skycams and weather radars if there’s nothing to feed in. Or black.

You really need to get over this call letter hate.

except that at cnn one has to guess from where the headlines are from since non-tv people (myself included) rarely know call letters from coast-to-coast.

granted, there are alot of weather radars, but the thing is one f’in day old.

i like it. i can see it becoming a go to destination that many will attempt to copy.

please do follow up in 2weeks.

I strongly believe the Web is an on-demand environment. Give me a site like this with 40 breaking news videos I can click on and I’d be impressed. But what’s the value to me when I see a bunch of radars and skycams with the occasional cooking segment from a noon show? (When I went on during my lunch break I got a TV newscast that is produced for the at-home audience, complete with cooking segment.) The skycams and radars aren’t even local to me, nor could more than 2 be local for anyone since there are only two per market.

I applaud MyFox for welcoming news ideas and making them reality, but prove this works by having compelling content for your consumers, not the critical news junkies. It can’t make any money just impressing the critics for one day.

Live events of interest/importance always have an audience.

I like the idea in the abstract, but I have trouble seeing exactly who the audience is for the site. Yes, there is a small subset of news junkies who might use it periodically. But I can’t help thinking that it’s an idea in search of an audience.

Plus, there are some usability issues. It’s nor clear what is streaming and where–at least not from looking at the thumbnails. Sure, the moderator provides guidance, but I wonder if that requires more time on the site than the average visitor is willing to invest.

This is a lot like the ObamaTracker site. It’s a great proof of concept, but it doesn’t quite work yet in the real world.

is this 47x that?

man, are they out in front with this thing.