WoW Insider Show goes live on Ustream tomorrow
Yes, it's a time of change for the WoW Insider Show -- just a little over a year ago, we started out as a partnership with WoW Radio, but time has passed, we've grown bigger and bigger, and now it's time to move out on our own. What does this mean for you? Nothing much -- it only means that tomorrow afternoon at 3:30pm Eastern, instead of joining us on WoW Radio, you'll be joining us on our brand new Ustream channel, where you'll be able to listen to our podcast live, chat with everyone else listening to the show (no IRC required), and even try out some fun new features we've baked into the festivities.
Other than that, nothing else has changed -- we're still providing news and views on the World of Warcraft, and yes, Turpster is still along for the ride. Tomorrow on the show, we'll ask him why he couldn't find a ship captain to carry him across the ocean to BlizzCon, and we'll welcome WoW Insider blogger Adam Holisky (who was at BlizzCon), and our good friend Patrick Beja, who not only attended nearly every panel at last weekend's BlizzCon, but has actually been inside Blizzard HQ as well. Plus, we don't know if you've heard of a little thing called patch 3.0.2, but we'll take a look at what Echoes of Doom has given us, including achievements, glyphs, and all the strange things you've been discovering this week. And we'll even look at what it hasn't given us quite yet.
Oh, and did we mention the giveaways? We'll be giving away not one or two but three different loot card codes to live listeners, which is more than we've ever given out before. Remember, instead of WoW Radio, come visit us at our new Ustream channel, tomorrow afternoon at 3:30pm Eastern, for the revamped WoW Insider Show. Same time, same people, same fun, different URL. See you there.
Lots of questions in the comments. Some answers:
Q: Will there be a new IRC channel?
A: Nope, the Ustream chat is it. It's very robust, and we hope to run it through the paces tomorrow, so the more people who show up the better.
Q: Will we be able to download the show via iTunes?
A: Yes! Although you will have to subscribe to a new iTunes feed, which isn't quite set up yet. But we'll have it ready by the time we post about the show next Tuesday, so stay tuned for that. Other than the URL we're streaming from (and the new iTunes URL), nothing much else about the show has changed -- we'll still do it every week, it'll be the same people, and in the same format.
Q: Why the change?
A: There are a number of reasons, the biggest of which is just that we're our own site, and we should have our own show. Obviously, we're big fans of what they do at WoW Radio, and when they do something big (we hear there are big plans in the works over there), you'll still hear about it on WoW Insider. TB and his crew do a great job and will continue to do so. But we figured it was about time the WoW Insider Show became a WoW Insider project, so it's all us now.
