BuzzFeed News and Twitter are taking on TV’s lucrative morning news daypart with a live streaming show and have signed up several large sponsors before the weekday program launches Sept. 25.
The live stream for the new show, AM to DM, will be free and accessible globally to logged-in and logged-out users on Twitter and connected devices. The stream will be available at @BuzzFeedNews.
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Wendy’s, Toyota and Bank of America are the first sponsors of AM to DM, which will be produced by BuzzFeed. Wendy’s will be the show’s presenting sponsor. Twitter, which announced plans for the show at its NewFront presentation in May, expects to announce more major sponsors in the next few weeks.
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"Twitter is the beating heart of news, and our newsroom has always embraced its power unabashedly, both for breaking news and for staying on top of it,” said Ben Smith, Buzzfeed editor in chief. “The exciting thing about this show is that while much of television news now is basically explaining to you what happened a few hours ago on Twitter, we get to come to an informed and up-to-date audience from right inside the news cycle."
AM to DM will be hosted by BuzzFeed Books editor Isaac Fitzgerald (@IsaacFitzgerald) and BuzzFeed News’ executive editor of Culture Saeed Jones (@theferocity), and produced by Cindy Vanegas-Gesuale, a veteran of CNN, Fox and the Huffington Post.
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