The combined package of news and interactivity lends itself especially well to sport coverage, where it can mimic the experience of watching a match and discussing it with friends.
She sent a frantic message to her father, who was watching a football match at St Mary's stadium in Southampton.
Think about the crowd watching a tennis match for a reference point.
Once the action is underway the crowd is kept in darkness, similar to watching a football match under floodlights, but they are kept in touch with match statistics and disputed line call replays on a giant four-sided screen above the court.
"I went up to see him, took a lot of photographs of him and spent some time watching him at a match, " explained Jackson, who also produced a sculpture of England's World Cup-winning squad of 1966 which is outside Wembley Stadium.
If these players see plenty of ball then everyone watching can look forward to a terrific match.
That avoids the excessive use of "he said" or "she said, " the effect of which is similar to watching a long rally in a tennis match.
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Anyone spending a day at a county cricket match, watching what is supposedly England's national summer game, might challenge this claim.
Hadley, watching the match in San Sebastian as a summariser for BBC Radio Wales, also feels that Clancy made a key mistake early in the first half.
Mr Fisher, 21, had been watching an England football match with friends at a Mansfield pub in June when a glass was launched into his face.
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They had taken a lift with the three other men, all close friends who lived locally, after watching the England and Northern Ireland football match at a pub.
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Tobias, a programmer and software developer from Berlin who was watching the match, said he was impressed by the level of expertise.
It is a fascinating time watching some of the superstitious behaviour in the pre-match build up.
After watching us hopelessly slip and slide about on the sheet, he challenged us to a match.
Shortly after Fed Chairman Bernanke testified this morning, I went with NPR economics correspondent, Adam Davidson, to a place where they spend all day watching to see who's borrowing and who's lending, and who can match a borrower with a lender.
"It is clear we are playing catch-up in the group, but I can see a lot of positives, " added Worthington after watching his side concede two goals in the space of a minute in the final 10 minutes of the match.
Former Wales back Evans, who was watching the Blues-Toulon match in Marseille for BBC Radio Cymru, praised the Blues' gritty fight back for a 28-21 win.
The win also capped a perfect day for a couple who met while watching Wales' Grand Slam win in 2005 and were married in the afternoon before the match.
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