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A couple days ago, I mentioned that Studio 60s were stacking up unwatched on my DVR. Well, TV critic Tim Goodman has a name for it: TiNo’d. Other shows I’m TiNo’ing: Frontline (I need to watch, but never have time) and Countdown (Sorry, but I watch the 30-minute Daily Show instead). What shows have you TiNo’d?
21 comments October 27th, 2006
Mark Glaser interviews ABC chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross about breaking the Mark Foley story online and the ripple effect in the newsroom. “It was a big moment that was driving editorially the news division,” Ross said. “It changes and improves the standards of people who are going to be hired by ABC News into this unit. If there ever was a time where TV people didn’t have to write, just had to know what good pictures were or how to get to a fire — that doesn’t work for us anymore. Everyone has to be able to sit down and write a story in an understandable, logical way.”
6 comments October 27th, 2006
The IOC has agreed to shift gymnastics and swimming finals to the morning hours in Beijing in so the popular events can be broadcast live in prime time in the U.S. And you can blame it on the internet, which cut into NBC’s ratings last time around. “We’re pleased with the announcement,” NBC Sports spokesman Mike McCarley said. “It will allow the two most popular Summer Olympic sports in the United States to be seen here mostly live.”
5 comments October 26th, 2006
Warner artists and labels will embed Brightcove’s Flash player on their websites so visitors can watch music videos for free, with advertising.
1 comment October 26th, 2006
It could take as long as 30 years for online revenue to represent at least half of a newspaper’s total revenues, according to a new report issued by Merrill Lynch analyst Lauren Rich Fine. She estimated double-digit growth for online ad revenues through 2012, then slowing to 5 percent, with print revenues declining 1.5 percent annually. Of course, this calculation assumes a lot of things, not the least is the fact that the most successful newspapers will be creating new digital businesses with new revenue streams. But again, it underlines the need to break out of the repurposing mold.
3 comments October 26th, 2006
As announced a few days ago, news video from the CBS owned-and-operated stations is now appearing on Yahoo News. You’ll see it if you have your news page personalized to a region with a CBS O&O. And video will also appear in Yahoo News search results, listed as text links in the upper right (example here). Here’s a screen grab of the player, which lists CBS video by market…
16 comments October 26th, 2006
Gary Kebbel, the Knight Foundation’s journalism initiatives program officer, made a special appeal at the RTNDA Technology Summit yesterday, inviting anyone (content creators and technologists alike) to participate in the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge. LR previously reported on Knight’s ambitious program to distribute $25 million over the next 5 years in support of innovative community news initiatives. The core purpose of the program is to study the effects of online news and information on local communities defined by geographic considerations. Knight plans on giving away $5 million this year alone. The deadline for submissions is December 31st. Help spread the word! Also, check out the video below for even more information and inspiration . . . .
5 comments October 26th, 2006
Big fat disclaimer up front: I work for KING5.com and NWCN.com, two Belo sites that have just relaunched new designs in the last few days. KHOU.com, KGW.com and KTVB.com just relaunched as well, as well many more Belo sites (WFAA.com and DallasNews.com are coming soon). Among the new features: a streamlined design and navigation, embedded video and a customizable tab with drag-and-drop headlines from any RSS source. And as you can see, each local site has a good deal of control to customize their own designs. Also worth mentioning, KOMOTV.com in Seattle also just launched a new look. I can take it, so let me know what you think…
45 comments October 25th, 2006
So I wasn’t in New York for the RTNDA event (see above story), but I’ll take this opportunity to share my biggest lesson for local TV sites. Digital strategy at most TV stations is currently driven in reverse. That is, driven by existing TV resources, core compentencies and brand extension. In other words, TV extended online. While those are certainly important components, they shouldn’t limit new ideas. You should ask yourself, what does the user (not viewer) want and need? What online opportunities are available in your market in local news, information and entertainment? Brainstorm new ideas, and then tackle the resource and return-on-investment issues that follow.
7 comments October 25th, 2006
Fox News is now producing short, web-only news updates twice a day on FoxNews.com and MySpace.com. The morning editions are hosted by Kiran Chetry and the afternoon editions are handled by Shep Smith, reports TVNewser.
9 comments October 25th, 2006
The nation’s largest network of radio stations (and quite a few TV stations) is in negotiations to be taken private by a group of investors for more than $18.5 billion. Clear Channel’s stock has been in a overall decline for the last five years.
2 comments October 25th, 2006
Something occurred to me during the RTNDA session on stations’ efforts to convert to HD: stations are spending a ton of money to go hi-def, and nobody is asking “are we going to be able to monetize this next quarter?” But many stations still ask that about online efforts. Sure, there is a difference: the FCC is mandating stations go digital by 2009. But the marketplace is demanding stations get serious online right now, and it’s still hard to get them to part with a penny that doesn’t show an immediate return. You have to stop thinking of the web as an expense. It’s your future. Someone asked Dave Spirak of WFTV if the station saw a ratings spike after going HD. Spirak said no. Of course the station didn’t. It improves the product as a whole. Same with the web. And the web has potential far beyond simply making the TV picture twice as clear: you can make your audience’s understanding infinitely clearer. There’s money in that. You’re doing your budgets for 2007 right now. Stop putting the web into the expense column, and start coming up with a five-year business plan that makes it a profit center.
10 comments October 25th, 2006
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Written by Chip Mahaney at the RTNDA technology event in New York: One of the biggest challenges (and opportunities too) for traditional news organizations is going from a linear (newscast) mindset to a mindset that’s totally non-linear. The final session of the day featured digital news executives from ABC, CBS, CNN and FOX talking about the challenges their organizations are facing in a world that no longer relies on television for the bulk of its news, and what strategies they’re counting on to grow their brand in the years ahead. Transcript follows…
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Stephen Warley, Richard Warner and I just finished our presentation, “Lessons from the Lost Remote Guys,” whipping through a bunch of different examples of sites and tools stations should be using. Once again, Chip Mahaney was kind enough to take notes. In truest managerial fashion - he’s doing the work, I’m getting the byline. Read on…
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A lot of questions here about how stations add contributed content from their newsrooms and viewers without having to hire a ton of new people. One questioner summed it up very well: “We have web producers who spend all day putting what’s on TV online. When are they going to have time to monitor what people are contributing?” Easy: STOP REPLICATING YOUR NEWSCAST ONLINE! The web is not TV. Tell stories in new and different ways. Jeff Jarvis had other good suggestions: if you fear hosting comment boards, link to others. Change your workflow, take advantage of the new tools and change your mindset. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to get a lot more content.
6 comments October 25th, 2006
Well, panelist Jeff Jarvis (pictured) would take issue with calling it “your” audience, but that’s the title of the panel. Here, Desiree Hill VP of News Development, Pappas Telecasting, Dallas, kicks things off by showing KDBC’s “Community Correspondent” program. People can go directly to the site and put up their own news without being filtered. The station monitors it, but does not edit it before it goes online. “We have not had one inappropriate thing posted yet from among our eight stations. I thought we would.” Mitch Gelman SVP and EP, CNN.com talked about iReport: “We’re expanding the way we define and incorporate different points of view on the news.” Showing examples from the iReports in America Votes 2006, Gelman said “It’s a great way to get out of the beltway.” Douglas Warshaw, Chief Marketing Officer & Co-founder of, Motionbox showed off his chops: The Motionbox product is fantastic. It is used on conventional media sites like NBC10.com in Philadelphia. Think of it as the interface between citizen video and TV stations that want to filter. Stations can decide which of the uploaded Motionbox video they want to feature. People can edit online, share with embeddable player… it’s a YouTube with editing.
On to Jarvis, who pointed to my fave, WKRN in Nashville, as an example of inviting bloggers into the conversation. The station even reached out to bloggers in the region to show them how to shoot better video and created an ad market for the blogs. Characteristically, Jeff got to the heart of the matter: “What’s your strength? You’re local? Are you local enough? No way. The way to make it into an opportunity is to create a relationship with the people who used to be known as your viewers.” Jeff pointed to the ease of production of video, but how expensive the stations’ production budgets still are. “How do you use those tools to be more local than the news papers and build respect with the people who will help you survive?” Updated with a transcript…
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A study by the Conference Board concludes that 10 percent of U.S. online consumers are watching TV broadcasts via the internet. The top TV programming watched online are news (62 percent) and entertainment (50 percent). The reasons to watch? Convenience and fewer commercials. Three out of four say watching TV online has not changed their television viewing habits. Press release with a few more details…
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