YouTube, ABC News team up to stream U.S. presidential debates October 1, 2012 - 22:15 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - For the first time ever, YouTube will offer a live video stream of the U.S. presidential and vice presidential debates this year, TechCrunch reports. To do this, YouTube has partnered with ABC News and the debates will stream on ABC News’ YouTube channel and YouTube’s Election Hub. The four debates, which will start on October 3 at 9pm ET, will be available for YouTube viewers around the world. In addition to ABC News, YouTube’s election page will also feature commentary and analysis from seven other partners: Al Jazeera English, BuzzFeed, Larry King, New York Times, Phil DeFranco, Univision and the Wall Street Journal. Univision, Google notes, will also offer a live translated version of the debates on its channel. YouTube’s election hub, which is only one part of Google’s larger set of election-focused tools, launched in August, just ahead of the Republican and Democratic conventions. During the last primary season, YouTube – in partnership with CNN – also hosted its own debates and has regularly featured town hall-like events with individual politicians ever since. Partner news  Top stories Microsoft revealed last week that it received 6-7,000 requests implicating 31-32,000 accounts in the last six months. It is believed that Fisa requests typically seek much more information. But it remains unclear how broad the Fisa orders might be. The acquisitions are the latest in a string under Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who is rebuilding the company on the fly. By mid-July, users will get to apply for IDs of their choice, and will find out which one they have got by mid-August.   Partner news |  Latest news Explosion at military depot in Syria leaves 6 injured  Syrian state television said that a "technical error" caused the explosion at a military corps of engineers unit.OSCE PA President on Turkey: mass arrests not emblematic of democracy “I welcome the dialogue the government entered into with several protest leaders last week,” Wolfgang Grossruck said.UN compound attacked in Somali capital The bomber set off his explosives outside the gate of the United Nations Development Program base before attackers ran inside.Levon Aronian to play at U.S.-hosted Sinquefield Cup Aronian will be joined by Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky to play the high-profile tournament. |
