As the race for the White House reaches its climax, Livestation is offering a unique, interactive experience. With some of the best global news channels available in one place, Livestation viewers can benefit from a wide choice of coverage, multiple perspectives and the chance to use the Livestation chat functionality to influence how live, on-air programmes develop.
“I will be eagerly watching Livestation to see how the world watches the election of the century.”
Chris Cramer, Global Editor, Multimedia, Reuters News
During the election, Livestation viewers will be able to watch the action live, on their desktops, anywhere in the world, and chat in real time with other viewers as well as journalists and producers from our partner channels such as Riz Khan of Al Jazeera. Most of our partners are planning 12-hour TV specials, offering news, analysis and studio discussions as events unfold. Here are some of the highlights of the coverage on election night. Continue reading Grab your broadband ringside seat to the US Election with Livestation
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News, including sports and entertainment top stories available to anyone with a broadband connection
17 October 2008: ITN On one of the world’s leading producers of news and entertainment content for multimedia platforms joined Livestation today.
Livestation viewers can now access ITN On’s made-for-broadband 24 hour channel, the only channel of its kind in the [...]
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Joost has finally completed it’s second coming. Right, Joost updated it’s offering by moving to a new social web site plus a web plugin a month ago… but what everyone was waiting for was for the new Joost flash based solution.
Over the last few days Joost has been testing the new client… sometime [...]
This is just a short post to let you know that Livestation encourage all current users to upgrade to 2.1.1. This is the stable patched version of the new 2.1 client code.
Support to previous version stream (in particular 1.0) will be dropped soon as the small team is focussing on the new 2.0 code base.
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Livestation has added 7 new partner channels to its live, interactive online TV service:
BBC Arabic
C-SPAN
Rusya Al Yaum (Russia Today Arabic)
France 24 (Arabic)
Euronews (German, French and Arabic).
Livestation works together with its partner channels to explore the potential of live TV online by offering new interactive features, driving traffic back to the broadcasters’ sites and examining viewer behaviour [...]
On November 22 2008 YouTube will host a live streaming event as advertised below:
A comment by Steve Chen about YouTube working on a live-streaming product to be released this year was reported back in February.
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Revision3, the TV network for the Internet generation, will begin syndicating its entire content catalogue of shows including Tekzilla, Diggnation, Wine Library TV, and The Totally Rad Show to Joost™—the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service. The shows can also be viewed at Revision3 and on each show’s individual site. Fans can tune [...]
C-SPAN, the US cable TV network dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming, today joined Livestation as a partner channel. The C-SPAN channel will be available to anyone outside the US.
C-SPAN becomes the tenth partner channel to join Livestation, the destination for live TV and radio over broadband. Other partners include Al Jazeera, Bloomberg Television, Deutsche Welle TV and radio, euronews, France 24, Russia Today, BBC World News and BBC World Service radio. Continue reading C-SPAN joins Livestation as a partner channel
