Last week I lamented how mainstream media was lagging behind the online world when it comes to getting news to the audience when it happens.
Today, CTV got it’s ducks in a row with the launch of ctvbc.ca.
They even quoted some of the things I was highlighting in last week’s post. For example, as footage of a story is coming in and being compiled for the 6p news, it’s being put on the website. Special feature stories are broken out of the newscast and archived individually on the site.
It’s all about time shifting. We, as an audience, want to know what happens when it happens, and we want the ability to be able to go back and get it if we missed it.
The Province has stepped up a bit too, with more frequent and timely updates to their website and The Newsroom feature. Unfortunately, it’s still lacking a convenient RSS feed for the site. Click on the “Have The Headlines Come to You” tag on the left side of their page, and you get an explanation of how RSS works (posted last July) but no usable link.
Their blog roster has also been chopped from what was a huge list with few updates, to a more manageable dozen and a half that actually have content.
I’m not going to take credit for any of the above, but I will say “I told you so.” 
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I’m not sure they’re all the way there yet. It’s one thing to toss up a “Digg This” button on your site, but there’s a lot more to “it” than that. My biggest (and probably one of the most important) question is: where’s the feed?
Agreed, the lack of feed is disappointing.
However, when I saw the news story promoting the site switch, they were saying all the right things. Recognizing time shifting, that people want to know what’s happening, when it’s happening, that raw footage is just as valuable as a packed story …
I would expect the feeds to be coming soon..
Finally I can watch what I want to watch especially at night when I get home late from work. I wish they would bring back the full newscast though, or at the very least have some podcasts of the newscast.