interesting.

for me, live broadcasts are both DOOMED and THE FUTURE. i cannot decide.

But really, I prefer to receive entertainment when I actually have the time, rather than when someone else wants to throw it at me.

but... the chatroom thing and interaction is SO much better than prerecorded. we have a little indie radio show and even if ONE person sends ONE text message while we are broadcasting, it is INFINTELY COOL! "yeah, big ups to tomas on the SMS, this one's for you...." so coool. Maybe we can hook up a studio webcam to these services?

i think "podcasts" are the worst things... they are just dead radio. no pictures, no audience, just a fucking tape of a fake radio show that happened more than 24 hours ago. Crap.

it can be done. I am commenting here as a witness. Congratulations, ydj!
If you wanna go a step further, I have been living broadcast-tv free for 5 years now. No antenna, no cable. Nada. I rent movies when I wanna watch them. Yes, from a video rental place in a building, where you have to say hi to someone to rent something.
yeay for change, AND for control, no?

swampgirl you have no idea who this guy is, do you?
don't worry, i did the 30 seconds of wikipeding for you.

"He was a member of Fat Les, a band which also contained Britpop artists Damien Hirst and Blur bassist Alex James. Allen was also closely associated with the band New Order. He co-wrote their only UK number one single, World In Motion, and occasionally performed with them live."

"on the BBC's arts & culture programme The Late Show when Keith Allen as a guest on the show got into an extremely heated row with the panel over his view that comedy was now being hamstrung to appease rules of political correctness. Just before storming off the live broadcast, Allen - a veteran of the early 1980s wave of UK "alternative" comedians that had shocked many - had stormed at an Asian member of the panel that was for tighter controls that "It's not a chip you've got on your shoulder, it's a fucking vindaloo!" Allen later explained to press reporters that a vindaloo is as faux ethnic (this piece of Indian cuisine actually originated from Portugal) as those who masquerade as self-appointed spokespeople for ethnic minority communities' rights in order to censor arts and culture according to their own pet prejudices."

over your head, eh?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Stunt-Gone-Wrong
http://www.videosift.com/video/Worst-Hockey-Accident-Ever-Warning-Graphic
http://www.videosift.com/video/Compilation-of-Models-Falling
http://www.videosift.com/video/Question-Will-this-driver-avoid-that-HUGE-mass-of-water
http://www.videosift.com/video/Minivan-crashes-into-ABC-Studio-during-live-broadcast
http://www.videosift.com/video/Tatt-Screwed-40-seconds
http://www.videosift.com/video/Nanny-Tosses-Babies-Like-Bails-of-Hay
http://www.videosift.com/video/Boeing-C-17-Bounces-Off-Runway

There are more, but I'd say you are well qualified to be the steward of *ouch or *oops, which the sift sorely needs.

$.02

http://www.videosift.com/video/Comedian-Goes-on-Anti-Fox-News-Rant-During-Live-Broadcast

Dupe, was going to post this too.

Also, YOU CAN GET ALL THE NEWS ON FOX NEWS.

"Your days of violating free market principles are numbered, you jolly fat fuck."

epic, dude. i weep.

The broadcast was basically live with a little help. According to Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, "...George Martin greatly decreased the chance of an on-air foul-up by having the Beatles play to their own pre-recorded rhythm track of take 10. Only the vocals, bass guitar, the lead guitar solo in the middle eight, drums and the orchestra were actually live." Hence the headphones.

Equally impressive was how fast they got the song done. The Beatles had agreed to perform a new song for an BBC international broadcast on May 22 and the actual performance took place about a month later on June 25; the Beatles didn't start working the song up as a group in the studio until June 14. The program was to be the first live broadcast across five continents and, to keep it accessible to all audiences, the BBC had requested that the Beatles keep the song simple. The international "snippets" were added for the occasion.

Lennon was apparently very nervous beforehand; the gum chewing was probably just a front to hide his anxiety. There was a whole slew of friends sitting around also: "Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richard, Keith Moon, Eric Clapton, Pattie Harrison, Jane Asher, Mike McCartney, Graham Nash and his wife, Gary Leeds and Hunter Davies" (Again, from Lewisohn). After the broadcast was over, the Beatles did a little bit of overdubbing (including some of Lennon's vocals) and the final mix was finished the next day. The single was out in stores on July 7, less than two weeks later.

Update from ET:

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

They should call it the Samba de la muerte. After kicking off last night's live broadcast of Dancing with the Stars with a lively samba performance, Marie Osmond fainted. Moments before dropping through her dance partner's arms like a sack of sequined potatoes, Osmond was jumping around and giggling at the judges' comments.

"She was laughing and then sank like a stone … Everyone froze," ABC publicist Amy Astley told Associated Press.

As the camera zoomed out to show Osmond splayed out on the dance floor, the program quickly cut to commercial. After the break, host Tom Bergeron did his best to inform viewers of Osmond's condition.

"I want to just quote her exactly … The first words out of her mouth when she saw us all leaning over her were, 'Oh, crap,;" said Bergeron. It remains unclear as to whether Osmond was reacting to her on-air fall, or to agreeing to being a Dancing with the Stars contestant.

After commercial, Osmond was seen back on her feet awaiting the judges' scores. Dance partner, Jonathan Roberts, though, was seen spooning the mother of eight tightly enough to keep her from a repeat spill.

Osmond, who turned 48 on Oct. 13, explained away the incident, saying on-air with a giggle that "once in awhile that happens to me when I get winded. I stop breathing." Yikes. ABC, however, is expecting Osmond to undergo a medical examination before the next episode, AP reports.

"I don't have the patience to answer the same accusations over and over again"
That's a crock. You have the patience to maintain an opinion because you feel it is important to do so, and, as is easy to observe, not unlike Geraldo Revolto did, on the post you recently discarded of the live broadcast and the protestors in the background....with an uncomfortable tone, halted speech, transitioning to loaded, and devisive words, like the tags you placed on the same post{activist, radical, communist, misfits, nutjobs} when your inability to discredit, becomes obvious to all.

Textbook, passive aggression.

Wikipedia had this on Jessica McClure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McClure

I remember watching a live broadcast of the rescue. It will be 20 years ago, next October.

I remember seeing this live; it was relegated to the last half-hour of the show, and still managed to catch on later.

Judging from his and Spears reaction, I can't help but wonder if that "phat ass" line was something Morgan saved for the live broadcast. Or maybe it was just funny in the moment, I dunno.