September 22nd, 2008

Here’s a story to warm the heart: Radio goes video!

Posted by: Andrew Mirsky

I’m cross-posting today to a blog I wrote the other day for Media Future Now about mainstream radio using streaming video.  (As if that makes any kind of sense.)

What amazed me is the power of interactivity actually realized by video coverage of the Democratic and Republic National Conventions last month.  I’ll simply refer for the immediate moment to coverage of KCRW radio in Santa Monica, reported on by Anne Eisenberg last week in the New York Times.  Eisenberg’s story in the Times ogled at 124,000 views of 67 convention clips shot by KCRW staffers the Democratic Convention last month in Denver. (more…)