Article: 'Rocketboom' May Be Future of TV News

FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer
AP Online
05-06-2005
Dateline: NEW YORK


Amanda Congdon, anchor of the internet Web video log "Rocketboom," holds her copy at her desk before taping the quirky news show on New York's Upper West Side, Sunday April 17, 2005. (AP photo/Joe Tabacca)

What's ahead on TV? In a couple of weeks the broadcast networks will announce their fall schedules.

Meanwhile, viewers await word on how "The CBS Evening News" will be retooled into a newscast for the next generation. Thus does television race to meet the future.

But there are clues to that future available to anyone who looks for them. Check your computer screen, for instance, for evidence of what someday may be ...

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