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Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV?
kakapo writes "A couple of years ago, we dumped our cable TV, and don't have much luck getting old-fashioned broadcast where we live. That's fine — we can download or netflix almost anything we want to see, and it is great not to pay the Comcast tax every month. Problem is, now I want to watch the election live, complete with talking heads, pundits, glitzy graphics and all the rest, rather than reading about it on a website. So, is there any way to download network TV / CNN / MSNBC in real time — I don't mind paying. And yes, we could visit friends, but ideally our kids would watch the first part and then go to bed — and a sitter would be expensive if we have to wait until late for the result."
Go here and click on "live video."
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Hulu had streaming live feeds of the debates. I'd think they'd have some sort of streaming feed come election day. Also, I know CNN has streaming feeds of some of their programs.
We don't live in Shouldland.
Have you tried plugging a TV into the cable feed? A lot of times, the cable company won't bother implementing a cancellation, figuring that reclaiming the box is good enough and saving the cost of a truck roll. It's possible that you'll still have analog basic cable on that "disconnected" cable line. Alternately, you could sign up for one month of limited Analog Cable for $15.
This election is pretty much sealing the fate of the western world as we know it; we are quite a lot of people very very interested in the results.
Any decent AM radio station will have full-time election coverage, and radio news is generally 1000% better than the swill that you see on TV.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
For the things you want to watch which are covered on C-SPAN, you can see C-SPAN 1, 2, and 3, and C-SPAN Radio here.
I am wondering the same thing about tonight's World Series game on Fox. Anyone answer that question?
Baseball/Football/Basketball jealously guard their broadcast rights.
The only way to stream those things live is off the official website or through a premium membership (aol/msn/real networks/i'm not sure who anymore) after paying for it.
CNN is a lot easier. It's on their website for free.
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Depending on where you live, you might be able to make do with an antenna.
Admittedly, very retro in this day of ubiquitous cable but the photons are still out there in the ether.
Speaking of antennas, the last half of this segment from last night's NOVA broadcast has a sidebar on the application of fractals in shrinking antenna designs.
um...yeah, i'm sure the question is about the elections taking place in 2006. . .
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The C-SPAN site uses a flakey AJAX framework to try to sniff your stream reader. Unfortunately it's broken for some browsers. That seems to include firefox - including the version on my Ubuntu Feisty install which I keep up-to-the-minute with the upgrade tool.
So I've reverse-engineered it enough to find URLs for the underlying streams.
Here are direct links to the realplayer streams for C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, and C-SPAN3.
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PS: I haven't been able to figure out how to construct similar links for archived shows. If anybody else can mange that, please follow up with it. Thanks.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Direct tv will have 8 feeds on one channel in HD
You could watch the live stream from http://www.cspan.org/
First off, I am betting that the whole thing will be embroiled in troubles with all electronic voting machines and close recounts. I doubt that we will hear an official winner in several states until days or maybe weeks later. Second, suggest getting one of the digital converter boxes and an amplified antenna. Will serve you well for a long time into the future and provide a very good signal even when you normally get static on the old analog over the air. I work for a broadcast group and we have tested digital converter boxes in hard to recieve locations like condos and office buildings with some pretty good success.
Overall I say save the money and wait for the hubub to end after two weeks of the electronic version of hanging chads.
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I have a faint suspicion the OP was being sarcastic.
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Of course he has intelligence.
Sucking up to foreigners isn't "worldly view", it's just pandering for an audience. We're electing the president of the US, not president of the world. I expect my president to look to the US first and then the world.
As for morals, well, we know the answer to that one, too. Nobody cares. He's the Obama. He's the one who we were all waiting for. The day he started campaigning is the day that the oceans stopped their rise and global warming turned around. He told us so.
He calls welfare "tax cuts" so that poor and middle class people will vote for him. He talks about a pig still being a pig after you put lipstick on it, after his VP opponent talks about being a hockey mom with lipstick. He calls his ideas "new" when they are straight out of the 60's playbook for radicals, and those came from Marx before that.
He won his first senate election by getting the courts to disqualify all of his opponents.
He claims he's a Christian, despite being a Muslim when he was young. He claims never to have heard his minister speak, at a church he attended for 20 years and was a member of.
He doesn't want to leave a deficit to the children, but doesn't care that his tax proposals will result in lowered federal revenues. It's ok because it makes the rich pay more (even though they pay the majority of the taxes already).
But nobody cares. He's not Bush. He's the one who can beat Bush (he said so).