IP Democracy: NBC Nightly News Takes to the Web

This one slipped past me yesterday — NBC Nightly News announced that its evening news show will be webcast for free and available on MSNBC.com starting November 7. But it won’t be shown live — viewers will be able to tune in at 10 pm ET/7 PM PT at Nightly.MSNBC.com.

MSNBC.com claims to already be the top-viewed streaming video news site, with 75 million news videos shown in the month of September, and an average of 23 million unique visitors per month. The site already shows ndividual segments from “Nightly News,” “Today,” “Dateline,” “Meet the Press,” and MSNBC TV as well as live video events and MSNBC.com original programs.

Update: Staci Kramer of paidcontent.org has an interview with Charlie Tillinghast, President, MSNBC.com, regarding the decision to stream the Nightly News.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on November 1, 2005 10:12 AM to IP Democracy