Archive for October 9th, 2007
Mara Schiavocampo has been hired by NBC News and “will report primarily to nightly.msnbc.com.” Schiavocampo has been a contributor/guest commentator for ABC News Now, ABCNews.com, NPR, Current TV, Yahoo!, Ebony and Uptown magazines. “Mara has the perfect mix of broadcast and digital journalism experience, and we are thrilled to have her bring her innovative reporting to nightly.msnbc.com and the Nightly News team with her reports for the website,” said executive producer Alexandra Wallace. Press release follows below…
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WCBStv.com has launched a slight tweak in their design as part of a back-end rebuild. The biggest changes happened on the CMS side of things, but looking at the site I notice small changes in the look as well. There are more featured stories on the homepage, a new display for slideshows, and small changes to the story pages. The best improvement is the speed of the pages. They are incredibly fast to load now. Congratulations to the CBS team for replacing their CMS while keeping the site look virtually identical. For anyone who has changed CMS systems in the past, you know that’s not easy. If any CBS insiders want to tell us more about what has changed, leave a comment! (Disclosure: I used to work for the CBS O&O group at cbs2chicago.com)
October 9th, 2007
Oxygen will join MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, USA Network and SciFi in NBC Universal’s portfolio of cable networks. NBCU will pay $925 million for the female-focused network. Oxygen launched in 2000 with a huge interactive push - an effort that largely flopped. Now, in an interesting turnabout - Oxygen could help backstop the company’s iVillage.com property. NBCU will sell a pair of Telemundo stations to help finance the acquisition.
October 9th, 2007
