CBSNews.com launches new look
Michael Gay September 14th, 2007
CBS News has relaunched cbsnews.com with a very nice and clean look. On the homepage, you can pull in headlines from local news organizations, including the CBS O&O’s and local newspapers. Weather on the site is powered by Weather Channel, but doesn’t appear to display on the homepage. Video has a much larger showcasing on the new site, with links and video thumbnails everywhere, but the site is still using a pop-up video player. They are using Flash video inside of the stories, although there is no player on the homepage. The story page video player seems very small. Katie Couric will even give you a tour of the new site through a video, but you have to watch a painfully long :30 second commercial first. Tell us your thoughts in comments.
5 Comments Add your own
1. The Female Tom Grunick | September 14th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Listening to Katie Couric for 30 seconds is painfully long.
She is the female Tom Grunick of broadcast news.
When this experiment fails and CBS throws in the towel, Moonves will try a female anchor duo on the CBS Evening News…….with Katie Couric and Julie Chen. It will finally be called CBSTMZ.
2. Charles | September 14th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
While I do much prefer 10-15 second ads myself for online video, thirty seconds is NOT painfully long. It is not lightning fast, but it’s still just thirty seconds.
Unless you were being sarcastic. Then I digress.
3. Waltc | September 15th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
The ad is gone.
4. Mark | September 18th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
The 30-second ad is nothing compared to one of the others on the CBS News site. I had to sit through a MINUTE-LONG preroll ad. And, of all things, it was for Viagra - which probably isn’t exactly of much interest to the majority of visitors.
I could make a ‘painfully long’ joke there - but I’m sure you’re way ahead of me…
5. Mary Peterson | September 19th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
What ever happened to the CBSNEWS.com interview with Julie Chen & Dick & Dani Donato? Where are you hiding it?
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