Technology brought you the earthquake

If you are reading this blog, chances are you've already checked out our coverage of the Haiti earthquake. If not, see that portion of our website:

http://bigcountryhomepage.com/content/aid_to_haiti

It's incredible. Per my previous blog entry, the way we bring you the news is changing. Every report from Haiti was brought to you via I-phone. We also used FTP to send some video, but the I-phone is what really counted on this story. It enabled Katherine and Tim to QUICKLY shoot a piece of video and have it on the way to the station almost immediately. They had no time to stop and edit/feed video. They were also able to send constant updates using Twitter. Without that phone, much of what you saw on our air between Sunday and Wednesday would not have been possible. We would have had to wait for them to return to bring you the video.

It's hard to appreciate what Katherine and Tim did over the past few days without going through it yourself. I know that from covering Hurricane Katrina. I don't know of any other local TV station in a city our size that sent a crew to Haiti. As an added bonus, our reporters were embedded with the military. Even the networks couldn't make that happen. The point is...what you saw is absolutely INCREDIBLE...and EXCLUSIVE. Watch for our video on the national news...CBS, NBC and CNN. We sent it to all 3.

Oh..just so you know...I was not on the Haiti trip. Katherine and Tim shot all their own video.