KSEE-24 Live Coverage of Breaking News "On Air" with PocketCaster
Already this week, there were two incidents of breaking news captured and broadcast live by field reporters to "On Air" newscast using PocketCaster technology. Fresno, California's KSEE-24 local station has implemented the LIVEi CellCam solution, based on ComVu's PocketCaster service to enable live reporting using mobile phones.
The first event was coverage of the partial closure of Highway 99 near Fresno due to a trash truck catching fire. The video was fed back LIVE to the station, recorded and played back moments later at the top of the Noon News. The other stations in the market could only use a graphic with a map and it wasn't until about 15 minutes later when another station was able to go live from the scene, however, only limited to a "tethered" mast-cam shot from their microwave truck shot at quite a distance away. The benefit here is the ability to show a traffic incident to viewers so they would avoid a traffic back-up stretching almost a mile and a half. The reporter was Michael Espinoza (thanks Michael).
The second story aired LIVE from what appears to be an important story, the partial evacuation of an IRS facilty in Fresno due to a mysterious substance that poured out of an envelope and onto a worker in the mailroom. KSEE-24's assignment desk dispatched a LIVE microwave truck and media manager/reporter LIndsey Pena with the customized CellCam. Lindsey Pena arrived on the scene and began broadcasting back details LIVE from the IRS facility with the LIVEi CellCam. It cleary illustrated how quickly KSEE-24 can go LIVE to air with a major breaking story, they were the first station to go LIVE from the facility. Even their own microwave truck was just barely on the scene while they were already broadcasting live with the CellCam.
KSEE 24 uses new technology to bring you late breaking news
Truck fire backs up traffic on Hwy 99
The concept and design of LIVE coverage of breaking news and other events for the broadcast media via the CellCam was designed through a partnership between ComVu Media, KSEE-TV, Fresno, CA and LIVEi Moble TV, San Francisco.
Although live mobile solutions have been set up for reporters in the past, they have required proprietary hardware and are only available for designated staff. What's unique about ComVu's solution is that it's designed for professional reporters such as those at KSEE-24, AND for citizen journalists and the general public to use, too. No proprietary hardware, just install the software on a phone and start broadcasting live YOUR breaking news. Bottomline...the time for "LCJ" (LIVE citizen journalist) is here!
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