The Huffington Post has formally launched its online TV network, Huffpost Live. The current lineup has 12 hours of original programming a day, with a rotating series of hosts. Guests are primarily HuffPost contributors, though there were a few surprised on launch day. Actor John Cusack appeared to talk about housing, for some reason, and chef Gordon Ramsey is going on to pitch his new Fox show “Hotel Hell,” which debuts tonight.
Our sister blog Lost Remote has more on the launch:
It’s certainly social, but the challenge is balancing “good TV” with open conversation. Creating a video version of Huffington Post’s infamous comment threads won’t attract an audience, and HuffPo Live’s dozen anchors — Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, formerly from “The Stream,” kicked things off today — have the difficult assignment of combining compelling information with a civil and orderly conversation. Shihab-Eldin juggled the Google Hangouts conversation while punching up tweets and highlighting paragraphs from HuffingtonPost.com stories.
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