Meet your new Capitol Hill hyperlocal neighbor, KOMO TV

A large corporate giant moved into Capitol Hill's local media space this morning. KOMO television has launched its Capitol Hill News site as part of a citywide rollout of neighborhood news sites run by a central staff with contributions from the station's reporters, producers and any other company employees Fisher Communications can throw at Seattle's neighborhoods.

Their launch day coverage include a historical photograph from the Seattle Muni Archives found on flickr, a promotion for this past Saturday's Sound Outside music event, and a post about last week's shooting outside the teen detention center in the Central District. So far, comments on the site are from KOMO employees and the RSS feed isn't valid XML (fixed now!).

Nope, not official

The KOMO site includes pages for most neighborhoods in Seattle. The move by KOMO comes in the wake of SeattlePI.com launching a 'neighborhood' site in Queen Anne to compete with local indie site Queen Anne View.

Here is a CHS Links page of the latest from KOMO's Capitol Hill site. Corporate, indie -- you can get it all at CHS.