How Google+ Hangouts will transform traditional TV broadcasting

Source Lost Remote on January 11, 2012 0 Comments
U_News, Jen Reeves, Sarah Hill, Reynolds Journalism Institute, RJI
"How Google+ Hangouts will transform traditional TV broadcasting," Lost Remote, January 11, 2012.

Sarah Hill is the interactive anchor at KOMU-TV 8, the broadcast lab for the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She also has over 350,000 followers on Google+, where she’s been blazing a trail with Google Hangouts with the help of interactive director Jen Reeves.

KOMU is the first broadcaster to integrate the live video chats on-air. Since then, other TV shops have been experimenting with Hangouts. Yesterday, PBS held one. And today, msnbc will be holding a Hangout from 4-5 pm. ET, simultaneously streaming it on NBCPolitics.com.

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