ABC News to use viewer video online.(ABC News Digital Media launches an online service which offers viewers' video footage )(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, January, 2006 by Clarke, Melanie M.

ABC News Digital Media is launching Seen and Heard in America, an online service that will incorporate viewers' video footage from cellphones into ABC News coverage on multiple platforms. The service was first used during the U.S. presidential inauguration ceremonies in 2005 when ABC gave selected crowd members video-equipped cellphones to report from along the parade route.

Footage was also used in coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the London bus bombings. The full-time launch is timed to coincide with President Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday evening. Viewer-submitted video footage is edited by ABC News and will be incorporated into Worm News Tonight between 9 and 11p.m.; ABC News' special coverage before and after the State of the Union...

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