New Young Turks Format Starts on Wed., Jan. 16th
posted by Cenk 01/15/2008 01:36:27 PM EST

1. Starting Wednesday, January 16th, we will be doing a live two hour show 3-5PM ET (12N-2PM PT).
It will only have 12 minutes of ads an hour (as opposed to 22 minutes per hour in local radio). This "main" show will be mainly political. It will, of course, have the usual TYT irreverence and personal anecdotes and current events mixed in.
2. We will do a rolling post game (RPG) from 5-9PM ET. This will essentially be a live video blog, where we come in and out with live content in that four hour block.
There are no set times for broadcasting within that time period. If news breaks or we want to do a segment for any other reason (e.g, to play a TYT game like Dave Koller's America, do an entertainment block, a live interview, or simply to give you a random news story we like), we will go live at that time to share that content with you.
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3. The RPG will be a smorgasbord of topics. It will not be purely political. It can range from the racy to the intellectual. I would love to interview people about the meaning of life in this time period. I would also love to interview porn stars in this time period. So, hang on for an eclectic and wild ride.
4. We will put up all of our video blogs from the rolling post game on our blog below the TV screen (the same place where our blog is right now). Some of the video blogs will be Members Only but most will be available to everyone with a short pre-roll ad in the beginning.
5. We will make short clips of our content of the day (taken from the live show and the RPG) and put them on our You Tube channel as we do now. But these shorter clips will now only be on our You Tube channel and not on our site.
6. We will do live event coverage with Brave New Films for important political events of the year. Upcoming planned events are coverage of the South Carolina primary, State of the Union speech and Super Tuesday.
7. In the times we are not live (we are live in the 3-9PM ET time period), for financial reasons, we are not going to be able to loop the show for the foreseeable future. Instead there will be one of our You Tube clips in the TV screen you normally see the show in (this clip will not automatically play when you come to the site; you have the option of playing it when you want).
8. Members get every piece of content, all put together with no commercials, in easily downloadable and viewable formats.
Overall, there will be more content, probably significantly more. It will be broader topics throughout the day. And we will also use this as a platform to begin a progressive web network. Accordingly, we might have other hosts and liberal bloggers host certain blocks of time on the site.
There will certainly be plenty of experimentation going forward. So, there should be even more new and exciting facets to this venture as we go forward.