Comments on: WISC launches Wisconsin news aggregator

By: Mike Escutia

Mike Escutia — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:48:31 +0000

Anonymous: “There are stations still doing the Channel Somethousand thing?”

Apparently only WISC, though channel4000.com is still around, mostly running on autopilot. (IBS used it to cover the bridge collapse in Minneapolis a few months ago.)

By: ae

ae — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:50:19 +0000

Web Designers….please acknowledge when you design these kinds of sites that Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows isn’t the only browser out there.

By: tdc

tdc — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:50:55 +0000

i also see they are in roughly the 85th size market, right?

it’s great to see leadership from the top!

ask drudge and goog and others, it’ll be great to sell advertising around other’s content.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:30:14 +0000

There are stations still doing the Channel Somethousand thing?

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:51:48 +0000

not something i would do on your own homepage though.

this would make for a great free-standing web channel.

now, do a simultaneous relaunch and rename of wisc and this, then you’re on to something.

your salespeople will have twice the homepages to sell.

easy.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:16:16 +0000

This is great! Finally a station realizing that it is CONTENT that is the most important factor in drawing visitors, not the brand name which stations mistakenly think others value as highly as they do. Build a better mousetrap…..

This was ridiculously easy for them to set up - anybody can recreate the same thing in an iGoogle tab in just minutes - but they provide this plethora of news with zero setup and they reap the benefit of new visitors who hopefully discover the rest of their website.

P.S. I didn’t see Scanner on their navigation menu