I just love these cool little “indie” sites that pop up every now and then.
I found CenPho.TV via Twitter a few weeks ago. They’ve got a weekly video webcast about things to do and what’s happening in Central Phoenix (hence the name).
Hosts Jacqui Johnson and Dave Brookhouser give you all the scoop on downtown Phoenix restaurants, news, things to do, concerts and more. “Show notes” for each episode contain written summaries of the shows and hyper-links to related sites mentioned in the episodes.
There’s even a nifty little Google event calendar so you can quickly zoom into a specific days activities.
Every week, Jacqui delivers the news and events, and Dave gives us the “Rawk Shows” ”” info on local and national music shows. Follow them on Twitter for even more timely updates. You can also subscribe via iTunes and YouTube.
I like these guys. They’re personable and the videos are well produced ”” good audio and none of the shaky Blair Witch like effect you see on some of these things. The out takes at the end of some of the shows are great ”” hope those stay!
You’ll get more relevant downtown Phoenix happenings in 5 minutes of CenPho.TV than you’ll find in a months worth of mainstream media. Go forth and watch!
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OMG! Thank you sooooo much for the nice comments. We're just starting out and promise to get better.
Thanks again!
-Dave
Thanks for the cool site I’m checking it out.
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Nice find Jay!
Dave, would you happen to know anyone who is putting together something similar in the Houston area. Probably not but I thought I would ask anyways.
Hi James, I'm the other half… and no, unfortunately we don't know of anything in Houston, so maybe you should be the one to start it!
short and sweet video – I like it. Thanks for sharing Jay!
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You guys are all soooo nice! And again to address James … I've had the DREAM of trying to start a "franchise" of city podcasts like CenPho.TV, right now we are so overwhelmed with trying to produce something of quality that we just don't have the time.
However James IF you would like to start something up we'd would help you (or anyone else) in anyway we could.
Thanks again for all your kind comments.
-Dave
Dave and Jacqui,
Thanks for the responses and I love your vid. I think it is very professional and alot better than the stuff I am putting out for subdivisions in my market. I would love to see something similar to what you have there for Houston. What sources do you pull your information from? I have alot of avenues but none of them are necessarily accurate or complete. I see more troubles with them not being complete.
James,
We source from a whole slew of local sites and blogs. We spend the entire week scouring up good stories (they are few and far between) … which explained to us why the local news is so full of "fluff non-sense" that matters to so few.
One other thing I HIGHLY recommend is setting up a Google Alert for "City of Houston" … Google will filter all of their news about said topic and send it to you w/ links to the original story.
Wow! Phenomenal quality! Amazing!
[I am concerned, however, about their ability to "monetize" their work and talent.]
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Hey John thanks for the kudos … although I think our quality would go up considerably if I weren't on the show.
At this point we don't have any dreams to monetorize. We've attended a couple of New Media Expos and are just "hobbiest" at this point. We are just trying to grown an audience at this point anyway.
-Dave
Very fun about the movie directed by Ben Afflect coming to your area! You will have to let us know if you have an star sightings….