We Put Video Front and Center

By Bill Hartnett, NBC Universal

Stage Two at the NBCU booth was the place to be right after NBC Nightly News this afternoon. Brian Williams did a quick update on the broadcast (Bill Richardson dropped out of the presidential race) and dashed from Stage One to officially launch the new nightly.msnbc.com. Brian was joined by his Executive Producer Alex Wallace, MSNBC.com President & General Manager Charlie Tillinghast and East Coast Deputy Editor Randy Stearns.

Randy Stearns, Brian Williams & Charlie Tillinghast

"We're happy to be at CES. We are very excited about our new website," announced Williams. Not only can you see the whole broadcast on the site, you can see plenty of additional web-only video, produced every day by the NBC Nightly News team. They only have 22 minutes of airtime, but now you can see a bigger newscast online. You can create your own playlists and watch what you want to watch. It's all about video and it looks great in the new video player.

Randy Stearns did the demo and summarized the philosophy of the site, "We put video front and center."