E-Media Tidbits

Over at the Lost Remote blog, Liz Foreman notes that WTSP in Tampa will pre-empt its morning news show on Friday in order to air the Pope's funeral live. But it will still produce the morning show, and stream it live on the Web -- only the Web. This may be a first.

But as several people commenting on Foreman's blog item note, maybe it's not ideal to just stream the entire program. Instead, the show might be better offered in small chunks, allowing online users to view what they want -- and not expecting online users to sit in front of their PC monitors to watch a TV show on a small screen. If TV stations do more of this in the future, it's good to think about the PC not being just a replacement for a TV set.

ADDENDUM: WTSP's Theresa Moore says the show will be segmented into multiple pieces after the live show, as the station normally does when putting TV programming onto the Web. Also, the Web audience and the anchors will get to "talk" to each other during the webcast.