He believes fans will seek more objective reporting than the Vikings' crew can provide. Huml, talking on her cell phone as she races to catch a plane, views the cyberbroadcast as competition for the St. Paul Pioneer Press' PioneerPlanet and Star Tribune in Minneapolis, but only in a broad sense.
Fans only have access to static information on other sites.
Huml disagrees with Garcia-Ruiz's assessment. The team won't exercise editorial control over the broadcast, which she describes as totally independent. Wired News tracks the NFL's broadband efforts . Garcia-Ruiz thinks the NFL's decision to allow its teams to produce Internet broadcast coverage puts them in direct competition against local media. But there's another major entity that's trying to lure fans away from local Web coverage.