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MSNBC streaming Super Tuesday coverage online

MSNBC is offering a live Webcast of its Super Tuesday coverage online. Could this be the first time a cable channel has simulcast news coverage on the Web? I've asked MSNBC if that's the case, but the network has yet to get back to me. A live broadcast is significantly more expensive than serving up a cached video, as YouTube does. The only other major live Internet broadcast has been pay-only from Major League Baseball, and that's not a replica of a cable channel. Stuck at your computer? Hit the jump to watch some MSNBC, straight from your desk.


4:04 PM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By Jordan Golson
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  • Image of Adam Rock Adam Rock at 04:36 PM on 02/05/08
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    Would be nice to have captioning for people who don't want to turn the sound on.

  • Image of Adam Rock Adam Rock at 04:47 PM on 02/05/08
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    Hmm, is it still working? The video from video.msnbc.com keeps barfing in FF2, and the one embedded here just links me to two places.

  • Image of jinxremoved jinxremoved at 05:22 PM on 02/05/08
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    Stopped working after about 30 minutes of posting.

  • Image of DeltaGuy DeltaGuy at 06:48 PM on 02/05/08
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    It's still working for me.

  • Image of pongo pongo at 07:16 PM on 02/05/08
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    I was in Vancouver on September 11, 2001, and watched Peter Jennings on ABC as his coverage was simulcast on the net -- so no, this would definitely not be a first.

  • Image of Magister Magister at 09:40 PM on 02/05/08
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    It suddenly stopped and then it came back after about fifteen minutes.

    I know that MSNBC also streamed Iowa and NH, but I didn't watch SC online, so I don't know that they did it, also.

    Back in the days of Pipeline, they'd usually pickup the CNN feed for the big breaking stories (like that mining thing from WV), but I've been kind of disappointed that this election cycle has just been their webcrew because I'd rather have access to their "stars".

    CBS and the BBC has also simulcast breaking news, but CBS is broadcast the BBC is foreign. Also, ABCNewsNow, ABC's digital cable channel and subscription-based online offering has been free today.

    Oh, and of course everybody streams their debates and the SotU. Also, it seems like MSNBC has done a "theme day" in the past, but I can't really say because I just remember maybe hearing a report about it.

  • Image of snipermatt snipermatt at 10:23 PM on 02/05/08
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    It's about time they caught on...

  • Image of felswick felswick at 07:16 AM on 02/06/08
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    MSN has been simul-streaming breaking news events for years now - I remember watching MSNBC's live coverage of the last general election, and going way back to the Michael Jackson verdict years ago

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