Comments on: WKRN switches to WorldNow http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/ Where TV Finds the Future Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:56:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Christian http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-862850 Christian Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:32:57 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-862850 As someone that works in web here at WKRN, I'm curious if Michael or anyone can list a couple of the features on the old WKRN that were "innovative?" I can't think of one. Help me out, fellas. With respect to Cory's claim that the relaunch of NashvilleIsTalking.com ditched the blog and turned it into a user-generated blog aggregator, this is simply inaccurate reporting. NIT is still a blog and has way more features than any Movabletype or WordPress blog out there, including NIT 1.0. I blog there everyday. Nashville bloggers aren't giving the site two thumbs down. I can find at least one quote that says LostRemote sucks and post it on a blog, too, but that would just make me look like an idiot because readers and the community here know better. For those asking why we went to WorldNow, have you tried using our old site over the past two years? As bad as WorldNow is, it's 10 times better than what we had. As someone that works in web here at WKRN, I’m curious if Michael or anyone can list a couple of the features on the old WKRN that were “innovative?” I can’t think of one. Help me out, fellas.

With respect to Cory’s claim that the relaunch of NashvilleIsTalking.com ditched the blog and turned it into a user-generated blog aggregator, this is simply inaccurate reporting. NIT is still a blog and has way more features than any Movabletype or WordPress blog out there, including NIT 1.0. I blog there everyday.

Nashville bloggers aren’t giving the site two thumbs down. I can find at least one quote that says LostRemote sucks and post it on a blog, too, but that would just make me look like an idiot because readers and the community here know better.

For those asking why we went to WorldNow, have you tried using our old site over the past two years? As bad as WorldNow is, it’s 10 times better than what we had.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-817450 Anonymous Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:17:51 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-817450 It's interesting to see a news organization switch to WorldNow considering their latency with keeping up with newer web standards and over abundance of flash use in the ever growing AJAX world. I work in a market that isn't the largest (about 400k people), and one of the competition stations in the market just (unofficially) decided to cancel their contract with WN and go completely in house because of their (unconfirmed) $80k+ per year licensing fees they were paying. The ironic part is that the ABC affiliate and NBC affiliate (the one that is switching) both have WN currently and their sites are almost identical because of it; both crap. Why would any media company switch to World Now?! On top of everything else, they need to hire some decent front end developers. It’s interesting to see a news organization switch to WorldNow considering their latency with keeping up with newer web standards and over abundance of flash use in the ever growing AJAX world.

I work in a market that isn’t the largest (about 400k people), and one of the competition stations in the market just (unofficially) decided to cancel their contract with WN and go completely in house because of their (unconfirmed) $80k+ per year licensing fees they were paying.

The ironic part is that the ABC affiliate and NBC affiliate (the one that is switching) both have WN currently and their sites are almost identical because of it; both crap.

Why would any media company switch to World Now?! On top of everything else, they need to hire some decent front end developers.

]]> By: anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-808550 anonymous Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:17:34 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-808550 Innovation left before Mike Sechrist. It left when the numbers and ratings from their experiment tanked. Innovation left before Mike Sechrist. It left when the numbers and ratings from their experiment tanked.

]]> By: "John Galt" http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-808323 "John Galt" Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:34:02 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-808323 Rob...Innovation left the KRN building with Mike Sechrist. Rob…Innovation left the KRN building with Mike Sechrist.

]]> By: Rob http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-807316 Rob Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:00:34 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-807316 Wasn't WKRN.com the poster child for innovation at last year's NAB conference? Wasn’t WKRN.com the poster child for innovation at last year’s NAB conference?

]]> By: anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-807167 anonymous Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:17:27 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-807167 They were on WN when the site first launched in 2000. They were on WN when the site first launched in 2000.

]]> By: anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-807079 anonymous Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:54:17 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-807079 Our Web site switched over to Internet Broadcasting from WorldNow last year, and thank God we did. WorldNow is horrible. The poor folks over at WKRN is now finding out the hard way. The site looks HORRIBLE!! They are not getting their money's worth AT ALL. Our Web site switched over to Internet Broadcasting from WorldNow last year, and thank God we did. WorldNow is horrible. The poor folks over at WKRN is now finding out the hard way. The site looks HORRIBLE!! They are not getting their money’s worth AT ALL.

]]> By: wtf NIT? http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-806936 wtf NIT? Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:50:46 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-806936 The new Nashville Is Talking site is hideous. Don't know who is pulling the internet strings @ KRN now ...wow. The new Nashville Is Talking site is hideous.

Don’t know who is pulling the internet strings @ KRN now …wow.

]]> By: tdc http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-806911 tdc Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:05:27 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-806911 can't help you there, ed. but if anyone wants to read a paranoid piece hurry and click onlinemediadaily's blurb in lr's the news wire. brand publishers: google ad manager to your own demise. laughing out loud is quite alright. can’t help you there, ed.

but if anyone wants to read a paranoid piece hurry and click onlinemediadaily’s blurb in lr’s the news wire.

brand publishers: google ad manager to your own demise.

laughing out loud is quite alright.

]]> By: Ed http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-806882 Ed Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:51:36 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-806882 I'm curious to hear the analysis here. Why did they switch to a "platform"? What did they see in the platform that they were unable to fulfill themselves? Do they consider it a step forward, or a necessary step backwards, forced by other business requirements? I’m curious to hear the analysis here.

Why did they switch to a “platform”? What did they see in the platform that they were unable to fulfill themselves?

Do they consider it a step forward, or a necessary step backwards, forced by other business requirements?

]]> By: tdc http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-806727 tdc Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:10:31 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-806727 spoke too soon about wkrndotcom, though; what's wrong with it? i suggest you clickon it and then clickover to cnndotcom... see any similarities???? spoke too soon about wkrndotcom, though; what’s wrong with it?

i suggest you clickon it and then clickover to cnndotcom… see any similarities????

]]> By: tdc http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-806678 tdc Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:43:29 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-806678 hey, i'm still laughing that young (symbol: YBTVA) accounted for (and evidently got the accountants to sign off on) KRON as a 'discontinued operation' in their last quarterly earnings release. hey, i’m still laughing that young (symbol: YBTVA) accounted for (and evidently got the accountants to sign off on) KRON as a ‘discontinued operation’ in their last quarterly earnings release.

]]> By: Anony Mouse http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-805899 Anony Mouse Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:10:53 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-805899 Well, that just shows you that Young Broadcasting does not care about the Internet. Well, that just shows you that Young Broadcasting does not care about the Internet.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-805846 Anonymous Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:33:52 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-805846 Eww. Have we not yet realized as an industry that full flash interfaces are horrible? Eww.

Have we not yet realized as an industry that full flash interfaces are horrible?

]]> By: Allen http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-805803 Allen Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:09:55 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/18/wkrn-switches-to-worldnow/#comment-805803 Wow. Now THAT'S an ugly site. Wow. Now THAT’S an ugly site.

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