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Feb. 22, 2007 at 8:58am Eastern by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo To Launch Singing News Show Named "Odd News Underground"
Yahoo news to tilt to a lilt from Reuters reports that Yahoo is going to be launching a news show by the end of this quarter named "Odd News Underground." The spin to this news show is that the anchor will be singing the news that "will leave you tapping your feet," said Yahoo's Scott Moore.
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Sure an interesting idea.
Combining news with music was tried last year (for just a few weeks) at Reuters Labs with a service called Newsbeats. No singing, just new age and electronic music combined with someone reading the latest news.
We posted about it on RS on May 18, 2006.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/05/18/something-new-and-something-interesting-newsbeats-from-reuters-labs-immersive-media/
The last Newsbeats was recorded on June 7th.
You can still download and listen to them here:
http://blogs.reuters.com/category/from-reuterscom/newsbeats