CNN Uses Camgirl Tech
Beet.TV has a neat little interview with Jon Klein, president of CNN USA about their usage of Skype Video in a live report:
“CNN, long an innovator in utilizing new technology to record and transmit video reports from remote and dangerous locations, made news gathering history last night when it used Skype to get a live transmission of CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin who was in Hawaii with no access to a satellite upload location.”
What’s kind of funny about this, to me, is that kids all over the world are using this sort of tech every day. All CNN really did was rebroadcast over TV.
The real story is that exposes another realm once controlled by big media due to the cost – live remote reporting. You no longer need an expensive satellite uplink truck and millions of dollars in sundries to go live from Baghdad. Really, all you need is a good cellphone and a few thousand dollars in sundries.
That’s going to be a serious challenge to the traditional media sources. If they can no longer be first on the scene or first to air what are they going to have left to offer their viewers?
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March 13, 2008 2:40 pm
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