WorldTV’s first official LIVE broadcast this Friday
WorldTV in partnership with our friends at Ustream and London’s uber trendy restaurant Galvin at Windows is delighted to bring you our very first official LIVE broadcast taking place this Friday afternoon. It promises to be a truly groundbreaking event, and one not to be missed!
The event is an online stream of an exclusive Champagne and Oyster Tasting featuring some of London’s top food and drink personalities, all from the top floor of London’s famous Park Lane Hilton hotel. We are truly excited to be a part of it.
We will be capturing the event on three separate cameras to give the audience a unique insight into the proceedings and goings on. The restaurant itself is a truly legendary space with arguably the best view of London high above Hyde Park and with panoramic views from all sides.
A stellar selection of influential food, drink and lifestyle critics and bloggers are all attending and will be using social media applications like Twitter, Qik, live chat and so on to integrate their own audiences and followers. Guests will be presented with several exotic varieties of Oysters and Champagne from some of the finest houses including Galvin itself. Hosting the event for WorldTV is the BBC’s Food and Drink Expert Nigel Barden who will explain all the goings on to the audience following live around the world. Food and wine lovers will get a real treat and something of an education, and it can all be seen gratis at worldtv.com/live.
We are very excited to be producing such an original and innovative show as WorldTV’s first official live broadcast and we look forward to producing many, many more in future.
Don’t forget to tune in this Friday at 4pm UK time or 8am West Coast USA. Twitter users can follow @worldtv for a reminder and our founder @smashing who is producing the event. To follow all event activity use the search tag #galvinw.
Read MoreWorldTV broadcasts surprise U2 gig LIVE
Well this past Friday was an eventful day at WorldTV… thanks to a tip from a friend, the power of Twitter and then a sequence of serendipitous events, WorldTV pushed the envelope using our experimental live channel and broadcast the only LIVE video stream of U2′s surprise gig from a rooftop in central London.
After getting the heads-up from an industry friend, it began with our founder experimenting and creating a live audio broadcast of the band interview preceding the show. It soon became a live global video broadcast as our founder tracked down a video feed of the event from the BBC and made the necessary technical adjustments on the fly. Within minutes more than 500 people were watching the event from the four corners of the earth.
As one WorldTV user said, “… I’d like to thank you for broadcasting live the U2 gig last night in UK. I’m in the Philippines and, obviously, I can’t watch BBC. It was my birthday yesterday and your move was one of the greatest birthday gifts I’ve ever had in my entire life…”
If you missed the gig you can catch it here and watch this space for many more exciting and interesting experiments to come.
If you’re a food or drink lover you won’t want to miss our first ‘official’ live broadcast taking place this Friday.
Read MoreMusic is Good 4 U
As the world continues to slide into financial meltdown WorldTV is constantly working on providing our beloved Users with more FREE entertainment and today’s offering comes in the form of some musical medicine of yesteryear (in no particular order) to help ease the pain of those nasty red numbers…
Sinatra – WorldTV.com/Sinatra
Ol’ Blue Eyes was the leading crooner for many a moon which he flew us to on numerous occasions with his grainy silk wrapped voice and inimitable stage presence. Sinatra also forged a career as an actor of some repute, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity and was also allegedly connected with some dubious Italian families..
Grace Jones – WorldTV.com/Grace_Jones
As we all know by now Grace Jones is no Shrinking Violet. For 3 decades she has sustained her iconic status with her incredibly extrovert style, attitude and groundbreaking music and has just recently released her first artist album in 20 years “Hurricane“. I’m a big fan and love her natural avoidance of the conventional and can even forgive her for the questionable acting performances in various 1980′s adverts and films (Conan the Barabrian being the best/worst). Check out some of the interviews in this channel for some vintage Grace Jones.
Bowie – WorldTV.com/Bowie
In the late 60′s & 70′s David Bowie’s musical output was consistently brilliant and his ability to continuously reinvent his stage persona as e.g. Ziggy Stardust and Thin White Duke (quite amazing really considering his drug fueled existence at that time). Early albums included Space Oddity (1969), The Man Who Sold the World (1970), Hunky Dory (1971), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Young Americans (1975), Low (1977), “Heroes” (1977) to name but a few!! Is he the greatest living Englishman of our time?
John Lennon – WorldTV.com/John_Lennon
The Beatles were (and still are) a global phenomenon and the writing partnership of John Lennon & Paul McCartney is considered to be one of the all time greats. After The Beatles disbanded in 1970 Lennon went on to record his own material including arguably his most popular solo hit “Imagine”. He also became a political voice and peace activist for a generation exposed to a gloomy war ridden world (sound familiar?). Murdered in 1980 Lennon was voted eighth place in a 2002 BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. Most people will always remember where they were when they heard of his murder…he is a legend indeed who will always be missed.
Also check out SmoothGrooversTV these guys really are awesome and their channel has been a favourite here at WorldTV for some time. Additionally, check out their homepage which offers all kinds of other jazz, soul and funk goodies.
In the not too distant future WorldTV plans to implement a new way to view channels by creating “Channel Categories” e.g. Music, Sport, Education etc. You will also be able to add a personalised description to your own channel and to add the caegory tag of your choice.
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Read MoreWorldTV’s Online TV guide to Barack Obama’s Inauguration
Today is a truly historical day as Barack Obama becomes the first African American to take the Oval Office, becoming America’s 44th President. Millions of people will be watching from around the globe and we here at WorldTV just wanted to give you a bit of a low-down as to where you can watch the proceedings online.
Catch it here with our mobile phone broadcasting partners @ Qik.com or at the internet’s most extensive coverage with C-SPAN, or flip between a number of international perspectives on the inauguration, including the BBC World News, Al Jazeera English, euronews, C-SPAN and France 24 @ Livestation (download required), or watch with with MSNBC, Ustream, Joost, CBS, CNN, Terra in Spanish or The New York Times.
For a factual look at Barack, check out WorldTV.com’s History of Obama and for a few laughs with the new President see WorldTV.com’s Obama TV
Read MoreWorldTV goes German
WorldTV has added German to its list of supported languages. This joins English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Russian. It’s always been our goal to make WorldTV a truly global network and with 80,000 user channels from 188 countries, we are well on our way to that goal. We’d like to extend a warm ‘Wilkommen’ to all German speakers using WorldTV!
WorldTV ist nun auch auf Deutsch verfügbar. Diese erweiter nun die vorhandenen Sprachen Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch, Portugiesisch, Ukrainisch und Russisch. Es war immer das Ziel von WorldTV ein globales Netzwerk zu erstellen, und mit über 80`000 Nutzern aus 188 Ländern, sind wir unserem Ziel schon etwas näher gerückt. Somit möchten wir alle unserer Deutschen Benutzer Willkommen heissen auf WorldTV.
To access our different language options simply select the drop down menu on the Home Page , on our player, or in the Channel Editor.
Um die verschiedenen Sprach-Optionen einzustellen, benutze bitte das „drop-down“ Menu auf unserer Homepage, im Player oder im Channel Editor.
You can also view channels from German speaking countries or click on the World Page map and choose the country to watch the channel of your choice.
Du kannst dir auch Channels aus anderen deutschsprachigen Ländern ansehen oder klicke auf die Weltkarte und such dir ein Land aus um einen Channel deiner Wahl zu sehen.
More languages will follow in the future and we will of course keep you updated.
Wir sind stets Bemüht, unsere Homepage noch in weiteren Sprachen anzubieten und werden euch selbstverständlich auf dem Laufenden halten.