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Speaking of the technology of the future, there are those of us who think that the cell phone, sometimes referred to by technology people who like to name trends as the "third screen," will actually be the "second screen" -- ahead of the computer panel. After all, we don't go anywhere without it and now we can watch television on it. And that's television delivered at 30 frames per second just as it comes to a TV set.
Pardon my plug as I tell you NBC News is currently the only provider of a news channel in that space with NBC News2Go. The quality (of all the channels) is pretty amazing. Ask your wireless provider about it if your contract happens to be running out and you're in the market for a new phone.
And while I'm on the subject of cell phones, pardon one more plug as I tell you that you can now receive a text message every evening on yours with some of the stories we're working on for Nightly News. Just text NN to 46833.
You can also do this for our other news broadcasts. Text MTP for Meet The Press, TODAY for The TODAY Show, DL for Dateline or NBCNALL to get them all.
While you probably know that text messages are the new phone calls, you may not know that the technical term is SMS -- Simple Messaging Service -- which is considered by many to be more reliable than phone calls or emails. There is a 160 character limit on a message which is y u c abbreviations a lot.
And in addition to being used for staying in touch and for voting or sweepstakes on "American Idol" (sorry, boss), "Deal or No Deal," or "The Apprentice," they are more and more being considered a reliable system for communications. Remember the recent Blackberry outage? Ah - our Blackberries that, in addition to allowing us to carry around our email, now frequently act as our phones, our pagers, and generally our first internal word of breaking news. Well, how do you tell Blackberry users there's a Blackberry problem? One new option we're seriously considering? You guessed it -- sending text messages. Sometimes a Blackberry issue only affects the email portion.
The messages are all written by our own broadcast writers and producers. And as they say, only standard message rates apply. So give them a try.
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Hi Mr. Williams, I wanted to Thank NBC and You for being the ONLY net work to Report the Attempted Midnight Run On Former U.S. DOJ Attorney John Ashcroft By Gonzales and Former Chief of Staff Andy Card. Talk about a Henious violation of Talking about America's Federal Government,Buisness in an unsecured Hospital,And to think they could get informed consent from Ashcroft,while heavily medicated...What sleazebags!! And to Force the "WireGate" to go thru
Back channels.
Why isnt this the Biggest news story of the day !!!
Knowing full well that George Bush sent them there, and that he,George signed onto the Wiretap Program anyway,should be enought to finally Impeach Bush, and Gonzales should resign right now !!
Mr. Ashocroft, I admitt holding a Protest sign in front of the Portland,Oregon Federal Building when you were here a few years back,That said, "Dear John, Get your JackBoots of my Neck," well, I now have gotten it out and Changed it to, Dear Albert, Pack up your Jackboots, You're Fired".... P.S. Take George with You !!!
I'm Taking back my Country, Thanks for helping me !!!
With proper reporting of the truth this time .
Teresa Teater,Oregon City,Oregon (Sent May 18, 2007 1:49:49 PM)
Finally, after years of frustration with network news, I'm writing. We TiVo our nightly news. When we sit down to watch, we just want the news. Nothing but the news. We don't want pre-commercial teasers to what's coming after the commercial. We'll know what comes when we hear it. We don't want to know what life is going to be like in 10 years. Leave that to the magazine news shows. We don't want to hear entertainment news. There's other shows for that. We just want the news. It seems so simple: just fill your 20 minutes (what's left after commercials) with news, and news from all over the world. We know this country is special, but we also know there's big news happening everywhere. Too many people in this country don't realize that. Maybe you can help educate them.
Nancy Wade, Moab, Utah (Sent May 15, 2007 2:44:18 PM)
i'm glad you are thinking about stuff like this, but i don't think you are the only provider "in that space". i used a sprint pcs phone last year that let me watch Fox News Channel *live* over the air. Also, ABC News had pre-recorded updates that were easily accessible over the same phone.
(Sent May 15, 2007 2:18:32 PM)
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