'RightThisMinute' offers quick hits.

• Author: Moore, Frazier
• Position: Living

Byline: Frazier Moore

NEW YORK -- "RightThisMinute'' wants to save you time -- the minutes and hours you might spend trolling the Internet for interesting new videos in a search you could never hope to get ahead of.

Instead, "RightThisMinute'' invites you to tear your eyes from your browser for this syndicated TV show (which, available in more than 90 percent of the United States, airs weekdays in two 30-minute blocks; check local listings).

Its mission: to unearth interesting stuff.

"We want to find a great video before 3 million people have seen it. We want to find it when 32 people have seen it,'' says Beth Troutman, one of the show's team of five co-hosts. "Then we add the journalism aspect: We don't just show the video and laugh and point. We actually talk about the story and people behind it.''

"What we've tried to do is bridge the daytime TV audience with the hardcore I'm-on-YouTube-all-the-time world,'' says Phil Alvidrez, "RTM'' executive in charge of production.

The brisk format is simple: Hosts convene to share with one another (and the audience) videos they like, none of which their fellow panelists have seen until then.

Each of these laptop-equipped curators comes to the table having logged time plundering the Web's nooks and crannies -- their efforts bolstered by a round-the-clock team of e-jays (as in "e-journalists'') -- while also digging into details of who made a chosen video and why.

"We found a video where a baby cried when the mother sang to her,'' says Alvidrez. "This one beautiful song elicited one particular reaction, and the dad picked up his camera and posted the video for friends. They never intended to be YouTube stars.''

Not only did "RightThisMinute'' bring this video to light before it went viral, he says, "but nobody else called the father except...