Cnn To Air Geocaching Story

[+sept1c_tank]

Haven't seen it yet, but it's supposed to be on in a few minutes...probably will be rebroadcast.

[+Anonymous']

I've got the boob tube tuned to CNN.

[+sept1c_tank]

hope someone records it...I'mlateforwork

[+fly46]

Let us know when it's going to re-air.

I was doing a CITO event at that time.

[+Enspyer]

Well, they did some kind of story back in 2001- older story

 

I hope they show the newer one again!

[+sept1c_tank]

I haven’t seen anything. I did see a little blurb around 2:30 PM Saturday saying something about geocaching and that the story was to follow. I was in another room when I heard the word “geocaching,” and rushed to the tube in time to see a close up of an ammo box and then a GPSr. The reporter was saying something about the lower cost of equipment and the increasing popularity of geocaching.

 

Searching the CNN website, I found some links from very old stories (2001) and this interesting advertising link on the same page: G.P.S. The Movie

 

"The movie is based on the newly popular GPS treasure hunting. The movie is a suspense/thriller/horror film. Join our mailing list for updates. The contest will integrate many different ideas including but not limited to, GPS (Global Positioning Systems), compass, maps, coding, puzzles, trivia, paintball guns, and more to help you obtain the ultimate treasure in the ultimate gps scavenger, treasure hunt adventure game. This contest, and the movie has no affiliation with any other related site such as Geocaching.com, Scavengerhunt.com, Realburiedtreasure.com, etc."

 

But no new news. Hopefully somebody saw the news item.

[Shoobie & the Sand Crabs]

The contest will integrate many different ideas including but not limited to, GPS (Global Positioning Systems), compass, maps, coding, puzzles, trivia, paintball guns, and more to help you obtain the ultimate

Every bdy stealing my ideas.

[+sept1c_tank]

OK. I have it straight now.

 

There is a segment on geocaching scheduled to air on CNN next weekend, Sept 18-19. The blurb I saw Saturday was advertising CNN's weekly program "NEXT@CNN," hosted by Daniel Sieberg on Saturdays at 3 p.m. ET and Sundays at 5 p.m.

 

Sorry about the false alarm in my original post.

[+fly46]

Woo Hoo! Then I didn't miss it!

[+GeoBear18]

Check out CNN next weekend for a segment about the Geocaching. It will be on Saturday at 3pm, and again Sunday at 5pm. I think the program is called next@cnn.

 

Don't know how long or how in depth the segment will go, but the CNN team followed Rixart and EmilyMaus around for four hours one morning. The segment was filmed at end of July 2004 in Atlanta, GA.

[+sept1c_tank]

Cool. Looks like it will be a family-oriented approach to caching. I'm looking forward to it. Daniel Sieberg usually produces some fine articles of this type.

[+sept1c_tank]

.......

Just a reminder.

Check out the details above to view a CNN broadcast about geocaching (today and tomorrow).

[+NoLemon]

It was shown at the end of the program. Over-all a good piece.

[+LordSaw]

Found it, Not a bad presentation, lasted about 3-5 minutes, forget to time it. They showed a cache page that had been placed by mtn-man and the puppymonster. Didn't show enough of the page to see which one. I thought it was well done.

Cache Well

 

Edit to add name of the hider with mtn-man.

Edited September 18, 2004 by LordSaw

[+sept1c_tank]

Yes. Nice article featuring a cache owned by mtn-man and puppymonster.

 

I always knew that dog would amount to something!

[+Enspyer]

The rest of the show was good too; I watched the whole thing. The had an interesting segment about using GPS to fight forest fires. The geocaching piece was quite accurate and probably have been nearly the same with almost any geocacher out there.

 

Edit: Question answered by post above!

Edited September 18, 2004 by Enspyer

[+Mousetrap]

Well, I saw it---what there was of it. Watched the whole hour and finally down at the end there was a few minutes of caching. Guess they don't think like we cachers do. We would have committed more time to the subject. Right, guys???

[+The Lost Geeks]

I just saw the clip on CNN, does anyone know whick cache it was or who the cacher is?

 

The cache link posted above (33 1/3) is to is a very large container. They were at a cache with a .50 cal ammo can.

 

Just curious..

 

The Lost Geeks

[uperdooper]

THIS is the cache they did.

[The Magical Misfits]

Here's a link to a geocaching news clip I recorded about a month ago here in Indianapolis:

•Link•

Edited September 19, 2004 by The Magical Misfits

[+mtn-man]

They ended up going to both caches actually. The only filmed the 3rd Anniversary Cache though. I was at a CITO Event and a wedding today so I will have to try to catch it Sunday.

[uperdooper]

They ended up going to both caches actually. The only filmed the 3rd Anniversary Cache though. I was at a CITO Event and a wedding today so I will have to try to catch it Sunday.

the cacher mentions a small pocket knife being in the cache.

[+mtn-man]

They ended up going to both caches actually.  The only filmed the 3rd Anniversary Cache though.  I was at a CITO Event and a wedding today so I will have to try to catch it Sunday.

the cacher mentions a small pocket knife being in the cache.

 

I needed to go by 33 1/3 anyway. I guess I get to check both. Thanks Uper!

[+AtlantaGal]

Was at the same CITO/GGA Meeting event and missed this segment as well. I'll probably also miss today's. Hope someone in the area can record it so I can see it sometime (hint)

 

.... and I was glad mtn man said 3rd Anniversary was the 50 cal shown cause I know 33 1/3 is a heckofalot bigger than that --- you can fit a kid in that container, lol!

 

Hey mtn man, you can get another smilie when you go check on it. My NCAA cache isn't too far from 33 1/3

[+CrimsonWrath]

I got the segment recorded and edited (removed the middle 50+ minutes.

 

97.7MB MPG or a 213MB AVI. I've got no clue how to share files that big. Suggestions?

[lowracer]

I see that it will be on again tonight at 5PM. Can't wait to see it.

[+Escapades]

It broadcasts at 2 PM today on the west coast, Here are the additional times it will air, All times PDT

 

Next at CNN, CNN Sep 19 11:00pm

Next at CNN, CNN Sep 25 12:00pm

Next at CNN, CNN Sep 25 11:00pm

Next at CNN, CNN Sep 26 02:00pm

Next at CNN, CNN Sep 26 11:00pm

[+rixart]

Hi, it was a very fun cache and they edited the piece very well. I spoke with them about the GGA and cito, but they didn't mention either in the show. All in all it was a very pleasant experience, and I got a free GPSR out of it from Magellan. (An explorist 200, alas no data or power cable available so I can't really reccomend it. But it makes a good backup GPSR to my Garmin e-trex.)

Chose a Mtn-Man cache for the area (silver comet)and I had a TB to drop in the neighborhood.

Emilymaus napped through the actual cache find, and as for muggles, the editing does not give away the cache location.

All in all a very pleasant experience.

Happy trails all!

Rixart

[+mtn-man]

Nicely done. One of my favorite parts was the log of mine they showed...

 

July 27 by mtn-man (799 found)

ACCCKKKKKK!!!!

Thanks for the note.

[+fosterbass]

I posted the CNN clip here. It is about 8MB and requires Quicktime to view.

[+Runaround]

Nice job to all involved. It was good to see a positive story and not a bomb squad call.

 

Thanks to fosterbass for posting the clip.

[+G'n,G]

Watched the clip. It was pretty good. It's always fun to see things like that.

[+GreyingJay]

Nicely done. One of my favorite parts was the log of mine they showed...

 

July 27 by mtn-man (799 found)

ACCCKKKKKK!!!!

Thanks for the note.

I saw that and laughed! I was sure that your note was probably in response to someone saying "hey, guess what, I just saw this cache on TV!" or something like that. Am I right? I tried to look up which note it was but I couldn't find it.

 

Nice clip.

[+CrimsonWrath]

I posted the CNN clip here. It is about 8MB and requires Quicktime to view.

Ah, that's how you do it! It didn't even ocurr to me to drop the quality of the recording. Duh. I'm glad someone got a version published out there.

 

If anyone needs a "DVD" version, let me know!

[+Rainwater]

Was it me or did anyone else notice what he found in that cache...he said "Pocket knife"...thought those where "not allowed" in caches...LOL..

[+Jamie Z]

Was it me or did anyone else notice what he found in that cache...he said "Pocket knife"...thought those where "not allowed" in caches...LOL..

Um. A few posts above yours:

 

the cacher mentions a small pocket knife being in the cache.

 

Jamie

[+jollybgood]

Kewl -- CNN just ran a spot on Geocaching.com/

 

I'm sure they'll be rerunning it through out the day.

[+TeeEff]

I just saw it too on CNN Headline News. It hit the record button on my TiVo so my wife could see it. It runs 2 minutes, 38 seconds.

 

Correspondent Daniel Sieberg, CNN.com's Technology Editor, goes on a geocache hunt with Rick Clawson and Rick's daughter, Emily, with Emily in a stroller. Rick is using Magellen's Explorist GPS. The narration has references to geocaching.com and mentions prizes being sponsored by Magellen and Jeep. Sieberg and Clawson find an ammo box cache and look through it's contents which include a Jeep Travel Bug.

 

Sieberg has an article on Geocaching on CNN.com dated Feb. 1, 2001, in which he talks to Jeremy Irish and also includes a picture of Jeremy. There's a talking head in the CNN Headline News piece who is not identified, but based on the picture in the online article was probably Jeremy also.

[+CO Admin]

Merging two identical topics

Edited September 20, 2004 by CO Admin

[+mtn-man]

Nicely done.  One of my favorite parts was the log of mine they showed...

 

July 27 by mtn-man (799 found)

ACCCKKKKKK!!!!

Thanks for the note.

I saw that and laughed! I was sure that your note was probably in response to someone saying "hey, guess what, I just saw this cache on TV!" or something like that. Am I right? I tried to look up which note it was but I couldn't find it.

 

Nice clip.

Nope.

 

It was a log in response to someone saying that construction was going on close to a cache of mine (neither of which was featured in the story). The cache appears to be fine so far though. You can see that the note was back in July of course. It would appear that they were surfing through my hidden caches. Parts of three different cache pages were shown in the story.

 

FYI... The Log

[+trippy1976]

I haven't been able to watch is yet, and I didn't know it was going to air. Yesterday I was in the lunch room and nearly choked on my sandwich. Instead a literally shouted "Holy crap!" and pointed. haha. Had to watch it via closed captioning, but it looked good An EXCELLENT suprise for my lunchtime.