Huffington Post to launch live online TV channel in summer
Arianna Huffington has announced that Huffington Post is to launch an online TV channel this summer, featuring 12 hours of original programming five days a week, with overnight repeats.
The news was announced in a blog by Huffington, to celebrate the fact that it is a yeat since the announcement that AOL was buying The Huffington Post was made.
She said: “we are ramping up our original video, including a breakthrough project we are announcing today: the HuffPost Streaming Network, a 24/7 live-streaming network that uses the HuffPost universe -- the stories, editors, reporters, bloggers, and community -- as its real-time script.
“Launching this summer, HuffPost Streaming Network, which is being overseen by our founding editor (and now HuffPost Streaming Network president) Roy Sekoff, will live on every platform -- computer, smartphone, tablet, Over-the-Top TV -- with the goal of creating the most social video experience anywhere (in other words, get ready for your close-up!).
“This is not TV, with its set schedules, overproduction, and rigid commercial breaks. HuffPost Streaming Network will be more relaxed, more free-flowing, and much more spontaneous and interactive.”
There are plans for the original content levels to increase to 16 hours a day by the end of 2013.