Track WSVN’s chopper online
Cory Bergman July 18th, 2008
Earlier this year, the creative folks at MyFoxChicago launched an interactive mapping system to track their chopper, AirFoxLive. Now they’ve helped WSVN in Miami launch the same thing, complete with the “unedited, uncensored, live video” stream. As a big breaking news station, 7 Skyforce is in the air for several hours a day, so odds are you’ll see it in action.
11 Comments Add your own
1. Amanda E. | July 18th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Wonder who is going to be the first station to set one of these up for a live truck.
2. Anonymous | July 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I don’t understand why this is anything other than a gimmick. I’ll look at it once, but I wouldn’t consider it “useful”.
3. Anonymous | July 18th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Here we go again. If this brings significant return visits I’ll donate a cool mil to them. Perhaps this is from the same person who wants live streaming doppler *snore* ?
4. Anonymous | July 18th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
come on - you guys are sticks in the mud.
It costs virtually nothing to do.
It;’s cool - it’s another ingredient to make someone’s site special.
Bet you guys stomp on all ideas
5. Anonymous | July 18th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
You’re right, I suppose. When your hands are tied by the MyFox system, this is the kind of thing you work on.
Good for them that they don’t just give up hope — they’re fighting on in whatever way they can.
6. Anonymous | July 19th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Yes, I do stomp on all really bad ideas. Digital is being counted on to help pick up these hurting television stations. Time and effort shouldn’t be spent on useless “cool to see once” features. Need to think a little bigger. Cool is great, but not if its useless.
7. Jay_Jay | July 19th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
In ref. to @Amanda’s point… at least seeing the fleet of live trucks would be interesting than tracking one vehicle. It would be an incentive for the viewer to see if Channel X is in the neighborhood.
8. Amanda E. | July 19th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
@ Jay_Jay
And a great traffic map for those who would like to avoid the “if I drive really really really slowly, I might be on teevee!” crowds whenever there is a live shot alongside a road.
Especially for those stations who like to setup in really bad locations during severe weather alongside busy roads and steep hills (**cough** “Channel Q” and the corner of 17th & S. Ray **cough***)
9. dc | July 21st, 2008 at 6:24 am
Gotta say, mapping ideas are always cool, but we tried live streaming chopper and 99.9% of the video is booooring. Unless you live somewhere that has super motivated car chase inclined criminals, the most you’ll get is some nice water shots, or maybe some city lights.
Yeah, occasionally you get some good stuff, but if that’s all it took to drive traffic to your site ( or station), there’d be a chopper channel.
10. Anonymous | July 21st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Boris Badanov says: Ve Like traking–good practice
11. Anonymous | September 8th, 2008 at 8:42 am
It was a cool feature to watch during a swat standoff. This was the only live feed going. All of the stations had to stop broadcasting on TV because the FBI requested it for officer safety, but the streaming video online was still going.
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