Comments on: Track WSVN’s chopper online

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:42:31 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:14:27 +0000

Boris Badanov says: Ve Like traking–good practice

By: dc

dc — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:24:24 +0000

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.

By: Amanda E.

Amanda E. — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:12:07 +0000

@ 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***)

By: Jay_Jay

Jay_Jay — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:58:39 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:35:13 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:05:23 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:51:35 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:36:42 +0000

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* ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:43:54 +0000

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”.

By: Amanda E.

Amanda E. — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:12:16 +0000

Wonder who is going to be the first station to set one of these up for a live truck.