Until January 2010 Spacevidcast was more of a hobby than a business. We really didn't have any competition and we owned the space podcast marketspace (outside of NASA produced podcasts of course). If I'm being honest, since it was more of a hobby I really only brought by C+ game at best. If we couldn't make a show, then, you know, cancel it. If it was too hard to do an event, just skip it.
On January 19th, 2010 Spacevidcast became a real company. Technically speaking we're Spacevidcast LLC. Now it is time to bring the A game.
There will be a bit of a format change on the show coming up. We're still going to have fun and be personable, but the live shows really won't be news focused. That's what the daily shows will be for. Here's the new game plan:
- Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday produce a daily 5 minute show on space. In this show we'll have a couple of news items, a 'Today in Space History' and a featured weekly app download for your computer or mobile device. These will be highly produced shows and available only on-demand.
- Thursday nights (in the US) we will have our live show. This show will be guest centric. We will bring the guest on right away and forego the news. Hey, we already did the news in the first part of the week anyhow. This will be a well produced live show that will last between 30 and 60 minutes. Post show will remain as is.
- Friday we will make the live show available on-demand.
- We will have at least 3 new articles per week. These will be any anything human space flight related.
- We will be pulling in our KSC resources (namely Jason) a lot more to help produce segments and get exclusive epic only content and interviews.
I can't decide on the podcasts. Audio podcasts are easy to produce, but with the amount of video we will be cranking out, that will get to be a bit much. What do you guys think? Would a weekly podcast be of any value to you? If so, what would you like to see the format be?
In addition, our launch coverage (which is already the best coverage on or off the planet) is about to become even better. I won't ruin the surprise, but lets just say some money is being invested, some graphics are being made, and no one, not even traditional broadcast, will be able to touch our content. These final 4 shuttle missions will be truly amazing, and you can only get that on Spacevidcast.com. Did I mention you can get all of that in true HD too? Yeah.
So if Spacevidcast today is just my C+ game, imagine what my A game will bring. I can say that my laptops are all crunching new video elements, we have a new system in place for content research and validation, I have a group of people helping to get us inside access the likes of which the world has never seen, oh and since we have epic now we can afford to do all this cool stuff!
Stay tuned! These changes will start happening as soon as show 3.11 with our guest Robert Pearlman. And as the weeks go by you'll see more and more new elements get added in to the show. This week will only be a small taste, but I think you guys will all like what you see. As always we welcome comments and feedback. What do you like about the show today? What do you hate? Where can we improve? Lets make this the best video show, ever!
