Michael Weisman may not be a household name in his own hometown, but to people in the Netherlands, he is a TV star.
A community media activist and law student at the University of Washington, Weisman hosts segments of a live show, which he sends over the Internet from Seattle to a public TV station in Amsterdam.
He is one of a growing number of people creating their own programming and putting it on cable, satellite and the Web as live streaming video. Along with expanding the reach of their signals, using the Internet as a distribution channel has the advantage of giving viewers the option of seeing archived TV programs on demand.
Weisman's association with De Hoeksteen, a live show webcast from Amsterdam, dates from the 1999 World Trade Organization demonstrations, when the show carried feeds from the Seattle street protests through a combination of ADSL and cable modem. De Hoeksteen translates from Dutch to "The Cornerstone."
In addition to Seattle programming, the show carries live feeds from contributors in New York, Mexico City, Brussels, Belgium and elsewhere. The segments are edited together in the Salto Studios on the Amstel River in Amsterdam, co-founder Raul Marroquin said.
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