Comments on: Backfence reorganizes amid revenue troubles http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/12/backfence-reorganizes-amid-revenue-troubles/ Where TV Finds the Future Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:50:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dan http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/12/backfence-reorganizes-amid-revenue-troubles/#comment-125248 Dan Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:35:08 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/12/backfence-reorganizes-amid-revenue-troubles/#comment-125248 Writes Amy Gahran: “…finding a sustainable way to financially support local news content is a thorny issue. Personally, I don’t think conventional advertising can continue to shoulder most of that burden, in any media.” Are you kidding me? Advertising can support hamburgers, coke, autos, laundry detergent, George Forman Grills, but it can't support reporters typing and making a web site and thousands of people accessing it (the hamburger sales analogy)? What world are you guys living in? The one where you need a printing press the size of a small town and trucks to get the papers out? One where you need large buildings with your name on the side, which all the high overhead these locations entail? One where you need TV station management paid large salaries, and corporate offices and another layer or management there being paid large amounts, in order to get news with video edited and posted? Plllaaaaeeeezzzze. The old way is done. Put a fork in it. Firing editorial workers at newspapers is the opposite of what needs to be done there, and that goes for local TV as well. Content IS what is needed, local content of local events, sports and news. Aggregating news from other places is a stop gap and is not generating anything new for the news consumer. . . . . in my humble opinion. Dan Writes Amy Gahran: “…finding a sustainable way to financially support local news content is a thorny issue. Personally, I don’t think conventional advertising can continue to shoulder most of that burden, in any media.”

Are you kidding me?
Advertising can support hamburgers, coke, autos,
laundry detergent, George Forman Grills, but it can’t support reporters typing and making a web site and thousands of people accessing it (the hamburger sales analogy)?

What world are you guys living in? The one where you need a printing press the size of a small town and trucks to get the papers out? One where you need
large buildings with your name on the side, which all the high overhead these locations entail?
One where you need
TV station management paid large salaries, and corporate offices and another layer or management there being paid large amounts,
in order to get news with video edited and posted? Plllaaaaeeeezzzze.
The old way is done. Put a fork in it.
Firing editorial workers at newspapers is the opposite
of what needs to be done there, and that goes for
local TV as well. Content IS what is needed, local
content of local events, sports and news. Aggregating
news from other places is a stop gap and is not
generating anything new for the news consumer.
. . . . in my humble opinion.

Dan

]]> By: Dan http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/12/backfence-reorganizes-amid-revenue-troubles/#comment-125237 Dan Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:06:03 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/12/backfence-reorganizes-amid-revenue-troubles/#comment-125237 What does "hyper-local" mean? dr What does “hyper-local” mean?

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]]> By: Everett W. http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/12/backfence-reorganizes-amid-revenue-troubles/#comment-125211 Everett W. Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:33:05 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/12/backfence-reorganizes-amid-revenue-troubles/#comment-125211 If the Washington Post's planned community blog portal shapes up as advertised, I imagine that there won't be any need for a Backfence at all. If the Washington Post’s planned community blog portal shapes up as advertised, I imagine that there won’t be any need for a Backfence at all.

]]> By: thewashingtonchannel http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/12/backfence-reorganizes-amid-revenue-troubles/#comment-125087 thewashingtonchannel Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:44:00 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/12/backfence-reorganizes-amid-revenue-troubles/#comment-125087 with just a small portion of that "$3 million in venture funding" they should have put up a small garage somewhere and worked out of that. it's amazing how many google-types start out in one. with just a small portion of that “$3 million in venture funding” they should have put up a small garage somewhere and worked out of that.

it’s amazing how many google-types start out in one.

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