Comments on: Fallout over WKRN, NashvilleisTalking

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:38:28 +0000

I really like that front and center video screen. I don’t need no stinking text, show me pictures.

I wouldn’t leave it gray though. Instead there should be some compelling video racked and ready to go.

By compelling of course, I mean beer-drinking bicycling bears.

By: jimwilson

jimwilson — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:32:19 +0000

I found all of WKRN entirely too difficult to use.

Why do I want to watch a video of something that has no video *value* when I can read it MUCH easier and quicker?

Why have all the blogs that segregate all the content to the point that I have to go to 20 different URLs to get the days leading information?

And, I can’t do a search across all of it — that I can tell.

I feel like we have reached the point where comments on stories have the EXACT same effect as blogs, but keep everything under one easy to navigate and understand (and from the back-end program and maintain).

I seriously can’t even find the most popular blog posts on the WKRN site… something that could easily be done if these were all articles with comments…

Here are some easy fixes:

Move the blogs to become stories with comments and program them on WKRN section pages.

Make more non-video stories text.

Slim down the home page and segregate the content by content type. As it is now, its all just one long list.

Oh well.

By: Ginger

Ginger — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:38:23 +0000

“If you ask me, the biggest question mark I have about WKRN’s online strategy is its practice of pushing video over text to the point it makes it difficult to browse WKRN.com for the news…”

Yes! As the “average viewer,” there have been more than a few times that I have sent the powers at WKRN e-mails regarding the difficulty in navigating their website due to the rather large gray video screen in the middle of the page.

It’s ugly and makes for a very difficult search of the top stories.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:56:28 +0000

The legacy of NiT is going to be one of a ’successful failure’ … it exceeded the expectations of the organization in the short term and got people talking and communicating from Nashville to NAB, but personnel changes and concerns from corporate probably helped bring about its big, messy, public implosion.

The new GM’s boilerplate comments about evaluating and assessing NiT smack of corporate speak for let it wither and die as soon as the brouhaha dies down. Hope I’m wrong.

By: tdc

tdc — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:12:57 +0000

sorry, that was X Files, not ex-files.

must have been thinking about my first wife.

By: tdc

tdc — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:11:31 +0000

i’d comment, but being an ex-files watcher i’d probably come up with a conspiracy theory.

By: Terry Heaton

Terry Heaton — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:07:11 +0000

Nice, Cory.

By: Safran

Safran — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:12:13 +0000

I can’t believe I just read Cory Bergman saying a local news site’s use of video was “too ahead of its time.”