Interesting that both of those mediums are broadcast/multicast only, not unicast. All of these video streams (with maybe the exception of CNN's P2P plugin) are

Interesting that both of those mediums are broadcast/multicast only, not unicast. All of these video streams (with maybe the exception of CNN's P2P plugin) are unicast, TCP/IP data streams. To really survive a crisis, ISPs need to implement real multicast data streams correctly so that one server can broadcast the video feed without requiring all of the clients to have their own individual copy of the feed going out. Edit: Sorry, looks like this is already being discussed down thread.