Slashdot Mirror
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.
Google found this first thing: http://www.dvguru.com/2006/11/06/election-day-coverage-streaming-overload/ and that was just a quick search. Does this really need to be a front-page discussion?
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
If you have a friend with a slingbox you could use that.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
While CNN, MSNBC, and Faux News, are all likely to have live streaming feeds of election results, it might be more worthwhile to head to your local sports bar. They'll very likely have the election results on, and they have a reasonable supply of alcohol as well, which will come in handy no matter who wins (if your candidate of choice wins, you celebrate; if the other guy wins, you drown away your sorrows),... ;-)
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 think I'm going to take a sleeping pill right after work and try to sleep through the whole thing. There's no point in watching it "unfold" - the next day my guy will either be President Elect or not, and my watching breathless talking heads constantly reanalyzing the same data isn't going to change it one way or another.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
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.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
I think I found a helpful link for you here.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
I say head on over to one of those kinds of sports bars will all the TV's an see if they're broadcasting it. Stream the beer instead.
I mean seriously. If you were to go to McDonalds and buy a Big Mac would you be paying an Big Mac tax?
It's a price.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
the "i don't own a tv and i have to tell everyone about it" guy
in answer to your question: who cares? why do you feel the need to tell everyone you don't own a tv? that's the real subtext of your question
and if you think that's a smarmy answer, well then i have a real answer for you: GO BUY A TV. GET CABLE OR SATELLITE. END OF STORY. your brain will not melt, you will not be contributing to the downfall of western civilization. really. or, go ahead and listen to the various unnecessary technical gymanstics you must perform offered in this thead. instead of simply going and getting yourself a simple, harmless television
the onion was prescient: Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television
this is some sort of genuine subculture. and if not owning a television turns one into a vainglorious buffoon, then please, everyone should own a television, for the sake of a healthy sense of humility. sheesh
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
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.
= = =
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
i believe Fox has the best coverage - i hear it's pretty balanced, and covers all the policy issues; I'm sure they'll have a stream with not too many adverts
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.
Enough with the Obama rumor nonsense. It isn't so much that nobody believes the stories that he's an adulterous socialist cryptomuslim alqaida mole whose really a citizen of Queen Maud Land. (Though you have to admit that the evidence is, to put it mildly, laughable.) It's just that nobody cares.
Why should they? He's different from the idiot who's now in power and the senile fool who's the alternative. That's all anybody cares about.
slingbox
http://www.channelsurfing.net/ has most sports events streamed live.
Hi, I find your link to CNN to be humorously incorrect but fun nonetheless. The true links to live election coverage are MS-NBC, Fox News and CNN. Be sure to wait until election day to tune in!
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. - Hunter S. Thompson
Here is what I would do:
(1) Pass law (and, I hope, amend the Constitution), to the effect that no campaign contributions, gifts, or other compensation shall be given to current or campaigning politicians, other than from individual citizens who are eligible to vote. No entity that does not actually vote (i.e., anybody but individual citizens) may contribute to political interests in any way. Foreign interests may not contribute in any way. Violation by any party (i.e, anyone offering OR accepting money or goods in violation of this provision) shall be guilty of a Federal felony punishable by NOT LESS than 2 years in solitary confinement in a Federal penitentiary.
(This means that CEOs cannot take corporate profits (created by the employees), and use them to support politicians to whom the company's employees would strongly object. Similarly, it would prevent worker unions from taking member dues and using those to support politicians who are not approved by the members. Only individuals could contribute. So: if an individual felt that a candidate would benefit the corporation they work for, they are free to donate. If the employee felt that the candidate might threaten their bargaining position by voting anti-union, then they are free to donate to THEIR favorite (up to the maximum). BUT... this prevents organizational "bigwigs" from taking money from their "underlings" and using it against them. ONLY INDIVIDUALS QUALIFIED TO VOTE COULD CONTRIBUTE TO CAMPAIGNS. Period. Emphasis on "individuals". Not companies, not unions. Companies do not vote, unions do not vote. People do. There is no reason that ANY entity other than a VOTER should be able to influence politics. If a company CEO or a union president want to talk to their legislators... they can. With exactly as much influence as anybody else.)
(2) Limit each contribution to a fixed percentage of the average (mean, not median or mode) income of a private adult citizen of the United States. That would limit the influence of the disgustingly wealthy, and bring things back to the idea of "one voice, one vote".
(3) While I am all for privacy, this is an area that has been screaming for openness: the names of each individual contributor to political causes must be made public. I choke over this one, but there appears to be no realistic alternative.
(4) Campaign contributions, even a nickel, must NEVER be tax-deductible.
Now for the fun stuff...
(5) AUTOMATIC EXPIRATION OF UNNECESSARY LAWS. While there must be exceptions for some projects that require long-term funding (I am open for ideas on that), ALL Federal legislation (laws) will be subject to review after a period of no more than 3 years from passage (not the "effective" date). In order for a Federal law to remain in effect, the legislature must publicly review and renew the law before the 3 years is up. If they fail to do so, the law automatically expires. There are several benefits to this idea: