Here’s a story to warm the heart: Radio goes video!

KCRW radio, the awesome college radio station at California's Santa Monica College, is going video!

Anne Eisenberg’s story in the New York Times oggled at 124,000 views of 67 convention clips shot by KCRW staffers the Democratic Convention last month in Denver.

They used cell phones – Nokia N95 phones on the AT&T 3G network – uploaded to the KCRW web using Kyte’s streaming services (www.kyte.com).

I’ve never used Kyte, much less a cell phone to record video. Well, other than that one time on the Inca Trail last year, but of course having no idea what to do with it.

Still, you don’t have to be Chris Parandian or Peter Corbett to see the curiosity and potency of this.

Parandian of Tin Can Communications (www.tincancommunications.org/) recently took us to New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward to interview a Tulane professor, but the immediacy and the starkness of the New Orleans moonscape were easily palpable.

Corbett of iStrategyLabs (www.istrategylabs.com) does it all. But I just like his shoot on “2008 Was the Year of the …”, interviewing DC’s new media diva Shana Glickfield (blog) from Amplify Public Affairs and Ogilvy 360’s John Bell (blog) – showing (not just telling) who and what we’re meeting. It’s oddly and comfortingly living room-ish.

My curiosity goes back to KCRW, however, home (for me) of the fabulous “Morning Becomes Eclectic” radio spin. Our MFN panel next week will chat about the business models of new media, gracefully named: “How to Make Money in New Media”. What is it when you have a killer radio destination building out onto video? What do you do with the NPR deejays hired with assurances that they “had a great face for radio”?