CAL MEC Special Update
March 12, 2008
Wall Street Rally Live Feed Video
In our ongoing effort to increase our communications tools, we are going to bring to you the first ever “Live Feed” event for Continental Pilots. Understand this is an extreme Beta project. The technology obviously exists for this type of event but is usually done via satellite trucks and live feed television.
What we are going to attempt is to stream this live over the Internet. It is somewhat like inventing the wheel so we anticipate that there will be some technical difficulties involved. In the range of possibilities, we can go anywhere from a rock that rolls down a hill if enough force is applied to a Goodyear Eagle racing tire. We expect somewhere in the middle. Call it a pioneer wheel if you will, because that’s what we are doing, pioneering some technology.
We have two sites set up for this feed. One is on the
calalpa.org website under “Hot Buttons.” The other can be found at this link:
http://www.calmeccommunications.com/
Neither of these two links or sites will be active until such time as we start the rally. The anticipated start times for video are 1100ET to 1230ET. This will be the main picket site on Wall Street. We will begin breaking down the computers and cameras following that and move over to Battery Park at approximately 1330ET. We will recommence broadcasting at approximately 1330ET and continue until the end of the rally. That is estimated to be around 1430ET. At times, there will be no broadcast on the Internet due to equipment substitutions and the like. During those times please be patient while we make the transitions.
In the event we have a complete failure of the broadcast system, we will post that fact on the website so that you will know we have had to pull down the video. If this occurs, rest assured that in the following days we will have video that was recorded available for you to see. In addition, we will have transcripts of the speeches available online shortly after the event is concluded.
