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Yahoo made a number of tweaks to its search engine, most notably adding a suggested search terms drop down tray that slides down when you start entering your query.
As a side-note TV friends… you might not like what you get when you put the name of your city followed by the word news…
11 comments October 1st, 2007
Disney is dumping its Disney Mobile product - saying the model was hard to sustain in the current market. The service used a private carrier and pasted on the Disney brand, and added special features like extra security and parental controls. This is Disney’s second flop in the mobile realm. A year ago the company cut its ESPN Mobile product for similar reasons. The Disney Mobile service will end on December 31st.
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TV Guide launched a new site that makes it easy to find TV online - video.tvguide.com. The site draws together TV show offerings from across the web into an easy-to-use format. An associated search engine pulls together a wide swath of content of the non-user-generated variety (a viral video bar shows some CGM content). A Clip Collector allows you to flag all the videos you want to watch, then play them all together. Links on the site take you the native player on the content provider’s site. TVWeek says the feature had a beta launch in April, and well go “live” Tuesday.
Some news content is included - but mostly from national outlets. I’d be interested to see if locals will be able to get in on the game at some point.
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FoxBusiness.com is up and live - albeit as a teaser site.
A rock-’em-sock-’em teaser promo leads the site, followed by anchor bios, blogs and video centered around the network’s launch later this month.
The team is ready. The excitement is building. The way you think of business is about to change. The most powerful name in news is now doing business. Fox Business. Coming October 15th.
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With rumors continuing to swirl that wsj.comc will switch to an ad-supported model, competitor FT.com is making changes. The website of the Financial Times will soon allow 30 free articles per month, before a user hits the “pay up” wall.
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We had a unique challenge at KTVB today. We have a crew in Shanghai, China for the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games. The next World Winter Games will be held in Idaho - making the coverage a natural. Anchor Carolyn Holly and photographer Xanti Alcelay were supposed to report live from the opening ceremonies during our 10pm newcast. But the president of China decided to show up - meaning no live uplink (that’s the simple version). But building blocks we’ve put in place over the past year made that less of a problem then you might think. Xanti “fed” Carolyn’s standups and a portion of a package via the Internet. Instead of choppy Internet-quality video, Xanti sent back full-quality AVI files. He exported the media from a Grass Valley NewsEdit laptop, dropped the files over the network, and we imported them back in to our Grass Valley system in Boise, and aired the video. It wasn’t exactly… quick - but was a neat work around to the challenge.
Carolyn and Xanti being told of the change of plans
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Belo stock (BLC) closed up 18.72% today following the announcement the company is splitting off its newspaper division into a separate, publicly-traded company. Shares of BLC closed at $20.61, up $3.25. On the debt side Fitch Ratings has downgraded Belo’s bonds to BB+, its highest level of “junk” status.
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BREAKING NEWS: Belo has announced plans this morning to break the company into two parts, spinning off the newspaper division into its own publicly traded company called “A. H. Belo.” The company called Belo will continue to trade publicly as a television company. LostRemote is posting details as we get them, so check back soon for more updates.
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According to the NY Times, newspapers are down about 10% in readership since 2000. (Doesn’t that number sound low?) But this quote from the article really caught my attention, “many papers have decided certain readers are not worth the expense involved in finding, serving and keeping them.” It’s an interesting tactic, but the bottom line is if the paper has to run specials, promotions or discounts to get the reader, then the reader isn’t worth it since they will likely cancel their subscription when the special ends.
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