Where Eurovision leads, Howard Stern follows

So Peter Kafka is amazed enough at Howard Stern live tweeting a commentary to a show on television that  he reckons this is the way forward for television? That Adam Bain at Twitter decided to prompt “every TV producer should be [taking] note of what Howard Stern is doing live with Private Parts and Twitter. He’s new but already broke ground.”

Hold on a minute.

As usual a brand new discovery to the American web and media is something that Europe has been doing for years. And I should know, because with my multiple years of providing Eurovision commentary via Twitter, I’m about five years ahead of Stern.

He [Spence] out-tweeted much of the official BBC correspondents by speed of updates and depth of information, winning rave reviews from followers. Several said they preferred the commentary of the renegade Eurovision tweet host to the banter of Graham Norton’s debut year as Eurovision host.

(Lisa Devaney, Digital Journal)

Still, it helps if you have a multi-million listenership to your breakfast show, as opposed to one of the leading Eurovision Song Contest podcasts…