Current TV vs. iReport…
BCBeat’s Anne Becker contrasts Current TV year end special to CNN’s iReports special…
Granted, CNN is using iReport submissions - lots of breaking news shot on cellphones - as a supplement to its own content, and not its entire body of programming like Current, and, granted, their target audience is significantly older than Current’s. So I’ll give them a little leeway in not being hip to how to present the stuff.
But even if I’m being forgiving, I still have to say their anchors - T.J. Holmes and Betty Nguyen - were completely cheesy - all made up and exchanging these fake laughs and knowing little looks like all those cheery a capella groups I so couldn’t stand in college. They did less showing what people had shot and more talking to each other about what iReport is.
Betty needs to get her “laughing for little or no reason” under control. While working with a co-host she’s likely to do this at least 15 times per hour.
Comment by Terance — January 2, 2007 @ 11:41 am
The one advantage iReport has is that it is (I believe) available to be seen by more people due to the fact CNN is more the norm on the basic cable channel lineups vs. Current’s usual digital/upper package location
Comment by Chris — January 2, 2007 @ 9:58 pm