Comments on: What’s going on at Tribune? http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/ Where TV Finds the Future Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:20:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Frank Catalano http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-861340 Frank Catalano Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:57:37 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-861340 The Web is far more like radio than it is TV. Folks with radio news experience know how to do a lot with little, are used to one-man bands doing everything, and communicate more effectively one-to-one than TV broadcasters who communicate one-to-many. Radio is a more intimate medium than TV. Radio narrowcasts where TV broadcasts. Those are key similarities with the Web. If these execs can bring that sensibility to Tribune's Web properties, more power to them. The Web is far more like radio than it is TV.

Folks with radio news experience know how to do a lot with little, are used to one-man bands doing everything, and communicate more effectively one-to-one than TV broadcasters who communicate one-to-many. Radio is a more intimate medium than TV. Radio narrowcasts where TV broadcasts. Those are key similarities with the Web.

If these execs can bring that sensibility to Tribune’s Web properties, more power to them.

]]> By: Dan http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-859209 Dan Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:18:04 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-859209 A buddy of mine who knows these guys told me this: Randy Michaels is a smart dude. He is waiting around for Clear Channel to crumble and will slect his favorite properties from the wreckage..That goes for people too. With Tribune, he may very well revive radio as we knew it. Same type of situations for Citadel, and Cumulus..they all followed CC's lead, and fired key people, devalued stations to the point of near worthlessness, and now Randy is waiting with an army of investors, and a THICK checkbook to buy his pick. He has already reassigned key people like Marc Chase to Tribune..Lot's of savvy radio guys are getting "the call" from Randy..Many many more before it's over. Reviving local programming and polishing the faded paint of many of America's formerly great radio properties. That's Randy..just watch the fun A buddy of mine who knows these guys told me this:

Randy Michaels is a smart dude. He is waiting around for Clear Channel to crumble and will slect his favorite properties from the wreckage..That goes for people too. With Tribune, he may very well revive radio as we knew it.

Same type of situations for Citadel, and Cumulus..they all followed CC’s lead, and fired key people, devalued stations to the point of near worthlessness, and now Randy is waiting with an army of investors, and a THICK checkbook to buy his pick. He has already reassigned key people like Marc Chase to Tribune..Lot’s of savvy radio guys are getting “the call” from Randy..Many many more before it’s over.

Reviving local programming and polishing the faded paint of many of America’s formerly great radio properties.

That’s Randy..just watch the fun

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-859149 Anonymous Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:04:44 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-859149 This is a group of idiots. They don't understand how people consume media. They have no web experience. They have Ed Wilson leading the stations sums it up. This is a group of idiots.

They don’t understand how people consume media.

They have no web experience.

They have Ed Wilson leading the stations

sums it up.

]]> By: tdc http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-858556 tdc Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:08:32 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-858556 does it really matter who they hire? tv until now hasn't done much online, so what can it hurt? EXAMPLE: tv newcasts have no shelf life and are content already being produced, why not stream them? not just the noon one, but ALL of them? can't make no$ at the commercial breaks? that'll have to change at contract time or tv newscasts become even less relevant. afraid "your audience" will choose the computer over the tv set? hardly. if the choice is a comfy couch and a wide screen or the office chair and a laptop, most will opt for their ass-groove in the couch. BUT, if the viewer is out-of-town on bus/vacation or whatever, and the choice is a laptop or NOTHING then the laptop will be just fine. best be first here because they won't remember who was second or third. maybe the 'new' radio guy will suggest this to his higher-ups. so far no tv guy in charge of the internet has. does it really matter who they hire?

tv until now hasn’t done much online, so what can it hurt?

EXAMPLE: tv newcasts have no shelf life and are content already being produced, why not stream them?

not just the noon one, but ALL of them?

can’t make no$ at the commercial breaks? that’ll have to change at contract time or tv newscasts become even less relevant.

afraid “your audience” will choose the computer over the tv set? hardly. if the choice is a comfy couch and a wide screen or the office chair and a laptop, most will opt for their ass-groove in the couch. BUT, if the viewer is out-of-town on bus/vacation or whatever, and the choice is a laptop or NOTHING then the laptop will be just fine.

best be first here because they won’t remember who was second or third.

maybe the ‘new’ radio guy will suggest this to his higher-ups.

so far no tv guy in charge of the internet has.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-857388 Anonymous Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:26:53 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-857388 In point of fact, most Clear Channel sites are hideous. In point of fact, most Clear Channel sites are hideous.

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-857173 Jeremy Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:45:07 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-857173 This is friends hiring friends - Randy Michaels and Marc Chase go WAY back in their years at Clear Channel. This is friends hiring friends - Randy Michaels and Marc Chase go WAY back in their years at Clear Channel.

]]> By: Rocker http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-856979 Rocker Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:05:16 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/08/whats-going-on-at-tribune/#comment-856979 Wasn't aware that Clear Channel was such a reservoir of digital media brilliance. Wasn’t aware that Clear Channel was such a reservoir of digital media brilliance.

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