Now here is the News - Wii style

Mike Bantick
Friday, 26 January 2007 07:06

Your IT - Entertainment

From this Saturday - Broadband connected Nintendo Wii's will receive the new News channel.

More functionality is rolling out for the Wii games console this week with the release of the News channel.

Adding to the Internet and Forecast (weather) channels already available, the Wii News channel offers headline AP News from around the globe.

Consoles with a broadband Internet connection and the Opera Web browser will be able to access the free news channel, which will offer AP news in multiple languages. Japanese-language news will come from a separate agency.
There were no immediate plans to sell advertising space, said Perrin Kaplan, vice president for marketing at Nintendo's U.S. headquarters in Redmond.

News will be displayed through an interactive map, which users can navigate with the Wii's wireless controller, Kaplan said.
"The beauty of it is it zooms in and out of areas of the world," she said. "So if you really want to focus on regional news or national news versus international, you just blow up the map of the U.S."

Associated Press has a two year deal with Nintendo to offer the service in a number of languages