Hearst Argyle expands digital team
Three new digital hires for Hearst Argyle Television: Terry Casey joins as weather product manager, Chris Steib as entertainment product manager and Judy Stone as the high school sports product manager. More details…
NFL relents, lets cameras back on sidelines
Penalize us 15 yards at LR because we’re doing a big ol’ “We Told You So” end zone dance. At the NFL league meetings this week, the owners decided to change that hideous decision they made last year kicking out local photogs from the sidelines. You remember – the one they made because they said [...]
Rachel Marsden’s colorful past
Salon has a long take on Fox’s new conserva-babe commentator Rachel Marsden’s somewhat checkered past. Sleepless channel prowlers may know her from “Red Eye,” an overnight talker on Fox News Channel, where she has been known to pipe into the kegger commentary with such pithy punditry as “Maybe [Pakistani cricket fans] should focus less on [...]
CBS News’ innovative intern contest
I was just browsing Newsvine when I saw a banner ad for something called “Springboard” from CBS News. Turns out it’s a contest to become a summer intern with Katie Couric and CBS Evening News. But instead of the usual shtick, interested applicants are being asked to send in a “local perspective to a global [...]
77 Sopranos episodes in 7 minutes
It’s called a “whacked out refresher” of the Sopranos. Basically, some guy with ADD (or a drug dependency) hammered out this very cool, very entertaining, very brain-numbing recap of 77 Sopranos episodes in 7 minutes. And I think he got it all in. Now the question is, how long will it stay up on YouTube [...]
Local TV sites and user video
It seems to me that local TV sites that have been experimenting with user-generated video are not seeing a tremendous response of submitted clips. Anyone disagree with this comment? YouTube and similar sites have won the first round, but how many rounds are left before it’s too late to catch up? I’m beginning to believe [...]
Billionaires top offer for Tribune
Two Los Angeles billionaires made a last-minute offer to buy Tribune, topping Sam Zell’s offer by a dollar a share. It’s unclear what Ronald Burkle and Eli Broad’s ultimate plans would be for the company; Zell said he would not spin off the TV stations.
LR commenter ‘JIB’ starts site dedicated to wireless
Those of you who follow LR regularly know that I have sparred from time to time with the mysterious “JIB.” We usually tangle over matters relating to the FCC. I have invited him through the years to write a guest column at LR – provided he do so under his real name, which I have [...]
Internet Broadcasting sets traffic record in February
Just a few hours after WorldNow published a press release on February streaming numbers, Internet Broadcasting announced it had set a network record of 15.4 million unique visitors for the month of February. (Yes, invitedmedia, you called it.) The traffic record was due in large part to all the weather. “A handful of stations encouraged viewers to submit personal stories of traffic troubles or storm-related photographs, with much of the user-submitted content used on air,” reads the release. “The community slideshows garnered tremendous amounts of traffic during the storms.” Full release below…
Sirius ‘Backseat TV’ coming to Chrysler vehicles
Sirius Satellite Radio — which has figured out how to transmit limited TV signals over the radio airwaves — has teamed up with Chrysler to provide Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network to selected vehicles. For example, people who buy the 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee could choose to pay $470 for the satellite video receiver, [...]
Interview with Davidson over McCain prank
If you’re curious, my station did a story with Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson on that MySpace prank he played on John McCain (click the video link inside the story to watch. And yes, we’re getting linkable clips soon.) The prank still has me laughing. Update: The story just aired on The Daily Show. Summit. Reached.
Can Google break into broadcasting?
A recent Google job posting seeks a “head of national TV sales” to help build a “world-class national TV advertising sales team.” And on the radio front, Google is putting together a sales and technology team that will eventually number 1,000 people. But can Google become a big player in broadcasting? A NY Times story [...]
