Suhit Gupta
11-04-2005, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.betanews.com/article/NBC_Puts_Nightly_News_Online/1130945429' target='_blank'>http://www.betanews.com/article/NBC_Puts_Nightly_News_Online/1130945429</a><br /><br /></div><i>"In a first for any of the major television networks, NBC announced that starting November 7 an online version of the day's nightly national newscast will be available online. At 10pm ET, a 21-minute version of NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams will be offered to visitors of MSNBC.com. The program would be the same that aired earlier in the night, but without the commercial breaks. MSNBC.com would insert one commercial break during the show. NBC also plans to archive past newscasts for later viewing, however it was not specified as to how long previous shows would be kept on the site. While ABC has previously offered portions of the World News Tonight program through its Web site and premium service, and CBS posted an eight-minute online version of its nightly news -- NBC is the first to provide a newscast in its entirety."</i><br /><br />Wow, it is about time. Honestly, this seems like low hanging fruit, and I don't know why we haven't seen it already. I guess the ad revenue model hadn't been worked out yet. So would you watch the feed? Or do you still prefer to see the news on TV?