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• 1. discreet_chaos  |  March 4th, 2008 at 2:13 am

  I’ve been logging into LiveNewsCameras every other day or so, since word first appeared here on Day 1 or 2. Of course, I was the dude that just left Pipeline in a corner of the screen, so I have a taste for unfiltered feeds, but I’ve used LNC to was press conferences, political speeches and local news broadcasts, so I’ve been impressed.

  My only qualms or whatevers would be that I’d prefer for the Twitter feed to be used more extensively to point toward breaking events, or maybe closed-captioning for the moderator channel and I’m anxiously awaiting the return of the international channels. I actually referenced one of them in a comment somewhere during the first week and I was ready to point toward another, when I logged-in and found them gone, but otherwise, I’ve used the service pretty regularly and feel it’s a great way to stay informed while killing time.

• 2. Jeff  |  March 4th, 2008 at 7:12 am

  >Are you still watching?

  Yes, and already have a favorite moderator.. Julia Fello and she’s on right now.

• 3. Anonymous  |  March 4th, 2008 at 8:31 am

  Interesting… I wonder who they set this up with, because it sure wasn’t the local web editors that work at at least 2 of the stations.

  It would be nice to have known in advance so we could at least put the radar out instead of black.

  And if they are scraping the stations’ livestreams without any coordination, then I’m not so sure management will be happy about that.

• 4. tdc  |  March 4th, 2008 at 8:46 am

  which only begs the question: why aren’t you (#3) streaming your own stuff rather than ‘black’???

• 5. tdc  |  March 4th, 2008 at 9:08 am

  btw-

  this entire idea is based on the concept that your content has value OUT OF MARKET.

  so while you sit around brainstorming on how to circle the wagons and keep that content ‘local’, check back in on livenewscameras.

  while i didn’t get a call last night from my friend barack, i was able to watch him LIVE on houston1

• 6. Steve  |  March 4th, 2008 at 10:11 am

  I’ll respond directly to poster #3 - we are not scraping anything; everything is being coordinated through local stations and station groups. If you have any questions you can email us, or get in touch with whoever your corporate contact for digital media is.

• 7. Z  |  March 4th, 2008 at 10:25 am

  “this entire idea is based on the concept that your content has value OUT OF MARKET.

  so while you sit around brainstorming on how to circle the wagons and keep that content ‘local’, check back in on livenewscameras.”

  And as soon as our local advertisers agree that having their ads seen by people nowhere near them is good, I’ll agree.

  It may have value, but not financial, not for the local stations.

• 8. tdc  |  March 4th, 2008 at 11:03 am

  ever heard of geo-targeting?

  i agree with you that local advertisers have nothing to gain from out of market eyeballs… which renders the current cnn/ib u.s. section story links worthless to your local advertisers.

  but it does run up the pageviews.

• 9. Z  |  March 4th, 2008 at 11:13 am

  Which is why we don’t count CNN visitors anymore.

• 10. Z  |  March 4th, 2008 at 11:14 am

  For sales purposes, that is. Promotions is a whole other department.

• 11. Anonymous  |  March 4th, 2008 at 11:15 am

  Thanks for the response, Steve. That’s what I thought, which raises the issue of disconnects between the “grunts on the frontlines” and the corporate digital media contacts.

  I think the site is great, I just wish we knew about it ahead of time so we could provide some regular content. But that’s an internal issue, of course.

  @tdc - I understand that livestreaming video 24/7 is a no-brainer and we really should have something running all the time. The only problem is as smaller station groups look to cut costs, most of the time the IT team is ready to trim that bandwidth cost of a constant video stream out of the corporate network.

• 12. tdc  |  March 4th, 2008 at 11:26 am

  thanks for the conversation everybody.

  even when we disagree here on lr, it’s civil.

  later.

• 13. Contrarian  |  March 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

  Tried it.

  Amusing, for a few minutes.

  Not worth spending time on after that.

• 14. anonymouse  |  March 4th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

  Think bigger - what if your station got a check in the mail every week/month/quarter based on ads on that site? They’ve got to start making money off it sometime, right?

• 15. Mark  |  March 5th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

  I really like this site - and it’s great to see it growing.

  The only thing I find a bit annoying is that not all the channels actually seem to stream their newscasts, so I’m forever clicking speculatively and being disappointed.

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