Found Footage: WNBC anchor shows Earl via iPad

News stations picked up the iPad early. Most of them are using Final Cut Studio for editing, so they are often early adopters for Apple products. Probably about half of news stations already have iPads on the anchor desks.

Greg Mocker from PIX11 News in NYC uses an iPad quite frequently in his spots.

Here's one example:
http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-mta-money-stories,0,6596222.story

The best so far has to be CNN looking for hookers on Craigslist with an iPad. And then ambushing poor Mr Neumark. iPaddin' for hoes at around 1:10

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/crime/2010/08/03/craigslist.sex.trade.cnn.html

NBC owns the Weather Channel, so I'm sure there is some product placement at work here.

Al Roker had an ipad in a clear case of some sort standing outside reporting in gale force winds.... Wonder how his made out?

Useless way for me, its just a placement, you could use pictures from the studio instead and so we could see something, but it seems that live covering in a messy way is trendy these days...

WCBS also used an iPad on the air this weekend to show off cell phone video of that US Open fight to get reactions from people.

You may also say that Jake Humphrey (@jakehumphreyf1 on Twitter) who presents F1 for the BBC also uses an iPad.

Slow news day, TUAW?