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I think there will always be a place for live news broadcasting. It doesn't really matter whether that's "TV" or streaming video, the medium seems unimportant,
by LeoPanthera 7y ago
I think there will always be a place for live news broadcasting. It doesn't really matter whether that's "TV" or streaming video, the medium seems unimportant, but people will always want to get real time updates on current events.
- themodelplumber 7y agoThis has been reinforced recently for those in and around the bay area. When the power goes out in your neighborhood, or when an emergency situation is developing, it is surprisingly nice to be able to turn on an FM radio and get hourly live updates on the situation, no interaction needed. Our local stations were calling out all kinds of announcements regarding businesses that were or were not offering services, public Wi-Fi, etc.
- tyingq 7y agoI don't know that young people who tune in only in emergencies is enough revenue to sustain local news once they are the majority of the population.
- Consultant32452 7y agoTim Pool is my favorite Youtube/podcast news commentator. He took the money he's earned and created a straight news company called Subverse News. They did a crowd funding IPO thing and raised over a million dollars in less than a day. So there's clearly a real interest in this kind of content. If I'm totally honest the production quality when the anchors are talking on camera is kinda like high school/college news, but the quality of the news itself is top notch. They've had the best on the ground coverage of the protests in China I've seen. And there's plenty of other great stuff too. I think CNN and their ilk have really screwed up by creating these multi-million dollar green screen sets, they focused too much on that infotainment stuff instead of the news.