HuffPost Live

Roy Sekoff, president and founding editor of HuffPost Live—which streams live content several hours a day via the Pulitzer Prize-winning web site of The Huffington Post—recently announced an unusual arrangement. Half of HuffPost’s 12 hours of daily streaming content began simulcasting on Mark Cuban and Ryan Seacrest’s AXS TV cable channel in mid-May. But AXS is not paying AOL (HuffPost’s parent company) for the programming, and AOL is not paying AXS for the cable TV carriage.

Andrea Morabito of Broadcasting & Cable writes: HuffPost Live, the streaming network of The Huffington Post, is coming to cable via a partnership with AXS TV, the companies will announce at AOL's Newfront event on Tuesday.

The content distribution deal will have HuffPost Live's original content air Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. ET starting May 13, making it available to AXS' 40 million subscribers. The daytime programming block will encourage real-time participation, with an on-screen viewer comment stream unique to AXS viewers and a HuffPost Live on AXS TV second-screen app planned for this summer.

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Fast Company profiles the 6-month old HuffPost Live, which provides 12 hours of live, social news coverage on a daily basis. Says president of HuffPost Live Roy Sekoff, "The convergence of all screens has not really happened yet. It’s getting closer. Very soon [the computer] and [the TV screen] and your tablet really are going to be the same thing. And when that happens, we’re really going to be in the vanguard of it.“

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On Monday, August 13, 2012, at 10 a.m. ET, the Huffington Post launched its live streaming news network. Entitled HuffPost Live, live.huffingtonpost.com delivers 12 hours of live programming daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET.

Arianna Huffington has launched HuffPost Live, a live-streamed news channel that will be live 12 hours a day, five days a week and will replay its segments at other times. As part of its format, the web channel will allow for users to participate in debates and chats via Google Hangout. Says the channel's president, Roy Sekoff, "We're at this great seismic moment where we're shifting just from presentation to participation.