Roanoke’s TimesCast is good

Posted on November 13, 2006 by

Earlier, I said — more video, less production.

I’ve also been second guessing in my own mind the idea of a newspaper doing a video of recapped headlines, sort of a TV-like newscast.

I just checked out Roanoke’s TimesCast for the first time. I’d just like to know how it’s doing for them on traffic/popularity, because it’s mighty engaging. What makes it good, of course, are the people — they inject verve and personality into every segment. This isn’t just a static restatement of the news, but a very creative and un-TV-like approach to news.

Kudos.

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  • jason

    “Ohhright.” Looks like they have fun with it. Pretty neat.

  • jason

    5:25 am ?! I’m outta here!

  • http://www.nlbelardes.com n.l. belardes

    Doesn’t work on Firefox or Safari… so I guess they’re doing something wrong.

  • http://www.howardowens.com/ Howard Owens

    Worked on FireFox (on Mac) for me.

  • http://tojou.blogspot.com/ Mindy McAdams

    Works for me in Firefox 1.5.0.8 on Windows XP … maybe you don’t have Flash Player 9?

  • http://timescast.roanoke.com Seth Gitner

    Howard — Thank you for the “kudos” –

    I am the Multimedia Editor at roanoke.com — and the one who makes sure the TimesCast is working correctly — I designed and implemented the cast and handle the technical stuff. — The player should work back to Flashplayer 6 .

    We really enjoy putting out the TimesCast. Any questions you have about it or any other piece of multimedia we do — I am very willing to answer via email or on the phone.

    btw — check out or sports timescast

    http://blogs.roanoke.com/sportstimescast/

    – here is a link to the FAQ to find out more about the TimesCast itself.

    http://blogs.roanoke.com/vlog/faq.html

    again thanks,

    -seth

    Seth M. Gitner
    Multimedia Editor
    The Roanoke Times/roanoke.com
    http://multimedia.roanoke.com

  • http://angelagrant.blogspot.com/ angela grant

    Did you happen to see the Halloween TimesCast? Laugh out loud funny!

  • http://www.nlbelardes.com n.l. belardes

    I swore I had the latest Flash download… Hopefully that’s the problem…

  • http://timescast.roanoke.com Seth Gitner

    n.l.

    you should not be having any problems — I am very intrigued by your technical issue — please contact me directly — my info can be found at http://www.sethgitner.com

    also Angela — the Halloween Cast is the best one ever — yes it is a “TRUE TALKING HEAD” — The real brains behind that goes to our daily timescast multimedia producer — Daine — the man behind the camera –

    he should take credit for the great post production work he does 5 days a week.

    -seth