When Viral Video Jumps From Your Second Screen to TV

By Jordan Chariton 

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Catchy viral videos are often the talk of the second screen. Now it’s moving to the first.

“People want to know when they see these videos, ‘why would he do that, how did they do that?'” Beth Troutman, host of the syndicated viral video talk show “Right This Minute” told Lost Remote in an interview. She was talking about Washington lumberjack Scott Augur, whose expert tree cutting exhibition resulted in both he and his video making the cut to be on-air. “It gives you the story,” she says about having the subject of compelling viral moments on-air.

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