BlizzCon is a celebration of the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises and the communities that surround them.
You can find the schedule for BlizzCon here. To keep up with the updates with the Blizzcon, stay with us.
Streams
If one of the streams is not working, it may have been changed for bandwidth reasons. (Or it's just not broadcasting at the moment.) Check the WCRadio.com Schedule Page for the latest stream times and links.
Features
All panels and announcements, broadcast live via shoutcast audio, and made available for download as mp3 after the fact
Full studio coverage throughout the day with live shows from your favorite hosts, special guests and interviews. Will also be available as a download after the fact for those who miss it.
An interactive schedule, making tuning in to what you want a snap. Simply click on what you want to hear, and it will tune you into it straight away. If it's already happened, it will stream the podcast for you.
Video interviews with personalities such as The Guild, as well as prominent machinimators, community personalities, Blizzard staff and uber-guilds.
Integrated twitter support, updated in real-time, allowing listeners to easily see what's coming up, any changes to the schedule, and when interviews will be available and streamed from the studio.
At least one outside show 'in front of a live audience', tentatively planned to feature personalities from WoW Radio, WoW Insider and World of Warcast.
Press Release
WoW Radio was able to broadcast from Blizzcon in 2005 and 2007, this year, Blizzcon 2008 falls on WoW Radio's 4 year anniversary (October 11th) and we plan on celebrating it with style by providing our most complete, live Blizzcon coverage yet. WoW Radio will be broadcasting all of the announcements and panels live via shoutcast audio, free of charge to any and all players around the world. Our site will feature an interactive schedule with multiple streams being broadcast simultaneously, allowing listeners to tune into any particular event they wish to listen to. After each panel, announcement and scheduled event has finished, the broadcast will be uploaded as a podcast, and be made available via the site and our RSS feeds. Clicking on an event that has already happened, will direct you straight to the podcast for that event, allowing listeners to download or stream it from our website, whenever they wish. In addition to this coverage, we will be providing live shows, interviews and commentary throughout the day from our convention studio in Anaheim. WoW Radio hosts will be manning the stream all day, providing the World of Warcraft community with up to the minute topical discussion, debate and commentary on the information revealed at Blizzcon, as it happens. Exclusive interviews will also be happening throughout the day with such personalities as the cast of The Guild, as well as members of Blizzard entertainment, prominent machinimators, guilds and community members. All of these interviews will be provided in both audio and video-format for high definition download and streaming. In addition, we will be inviting special guests such as the crew from WoW Insider and World of Warcast to join us on air in a celebration of WoW podcasting. For those attending the convention, a very special outside broadcast will occur at 8pm local time on the 10th of October, with hosts from Warcast, WoW Insider and WoW Radio in attendence. We encourage attendees to come and be our 'live audience'.
We at WoW Radio would like to welcome the World of Warcraft community to join us in our Blizzcon IRC channels. Our staff will be on-hand to provide any technical assistance and field any questions you might have, so feel free to join either #blizzcon08 on irc.quakenet.org or #wowradio on irc.mmoirc.com. Those who do not have an IRC client, can use our on-site java application, by clicking on the chat link at the top of our page at http://www.wcradio.com
Since the coverage will be live and low-latency, we expect listeners to be the first to hear the announcements, so come and join the rest of the community and share in the excitement. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and we look forward to broadcasting to you guys at Blizzcon in October.
BlizzCon 2008 will take place on October 10 and October 11, 2008 at the Anaheim Convention Center, located at 800 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92802. The hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Pacific Time on both days (Friday and Saturday).