Archive for May, 2008
Google News tips, tricks?
Since my Twitter question got such a response, I have another open query. Has anyone come across a good guide to Google News optimization? My site does very well in the web results category, but we get creamed in news, despite our standing as the #1 local site in the market. I’m set up on [...]
Sneek peek of TheWB.com
TheWB.com is in private beta, but NewTeeVee got a sneek peek of the site, which promises to resurrect many of the old WB shows along with some new original content. “Features are similar to Hulu — you can link to and embed episodes and clips of episodes — but the layout is less clean and [...]
Networks move to stop RedLasso’s blog clips
RedLasso records thousands of hours of network, cable and even local TV broadcasts, and then it makes the video available for bloggers to edit out “limited duration clips” and embed them on their sites. It’s become very popular during the political season, and as you might imagine, has drawn the legal attention of some [...]
Watching ‘The Daily Show’ on TV vs. online
Comedy Central said it will soon start streaming full episodes of The Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park. As you might imagine, this raises some eyebrows with cable companies, in this case, Time Warner. “They can’t have it both ways,” said a Time Warner spokesperson. “If they put content they ask cable [...]
NBCU reportedly wins bid for Weather Channel
NBCU has unofficially won the bid for the Weather Channel at $3.5 billion, according to NewsBlues. That’s well under the $5 billion that Landmark had hoped to earn. NBCU was part of a consortium that included Blackstone Group and Bain Capital. The offer of $3.5 billion, roughly half of which, or $1.8 [...]
Anyone set up on Twitter?
I just set up a Twitter account for our news site – and am using Twitterfeed to plug our RSS feed into it. We’ve just started to collect followers and I’ve put in some subtle on-site promotion. Anyone have best practices or tips?
Looking for a TV blogger
This week I made the jump from local TV to MSNBC.com, and I’m thinking about adding another volunteer blogger (or two) to Lost Remote. Inspired by the comments in the May sweeps story, I’m looking for someone who works in broadcast television who feels that print journalists and the stock market are unfairly diminishing [...]
Drudge Report holds sway over media elite
I got a fascinating look at the anatomy of a minor political story in the past 48 hours. Tuesday night, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig spoke with a KTVB anchor during our live coverage of the Idaho primary election. Craig revealed that he was writing a book that would cover a number of topics [...]
What local media sites earn
Borrell Associates has just published its annual report, “What Local Media Sites Earn,” with details how media companies shared the $8.7 billion spent on local online advertising last year (TV sites make up 6.9% of the total pie. Newspapers have 24.6%. Pure plays dominate with 57.3%). Borrell is predicting 50% growth in local [...]
Auto dealer remotes, YouTube style
I wanted to pass along a fun project I just completed at Cincinnati.Com: our very first video advertiser remote. The client, a group with 13 car dealerships, wanted something a little different, so we shot user-generated-style video packages for all the dealerships, then put them in a Mogulus channel which became – via embedded video [...]
Iger urges networks to embrace VOD
At an industry conference, Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger urged television programmers to move higher-quality content to video-on-demand. “If you’re not in that space, you’re going to get marginalized,” he said.
ReinventingClassifieds.com launches
With funding from the Future of News, Steve Outing has launched ReinventingClassifieds.com as a community for newspaper and new media folks to brainstorm ideas to solve the classifieds problem. “Newspapers may be in a pickle currently due to the dramatic loss of classifieds revenue in recent years,” says Outing, “but there’s still time to [...]
Screenshots of Google Android
Google demonstrated its Android mobile phone software at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, and News.com has the screenshots.
Briefs: Viacom, Murdoch, WaPo, Glam, Spike
– Viacom says it’s not bidding for The Weather Channel
– Murdoch “mystified” by Microsoft-Yahoo, says WSJ stories are over-edited
– Washington Post debuts an apartment/Google map mashup widget
– New Glam Media platform to allow publishers to share video for revenue
– Spike.com debuts new player, expanded Spike [...]
‘Countdown’ gets new site on MSNBC.com
Sometime today, MSNBC.com relaunched the site for Countdown with Keith Olbermann. The site looks quite a bit like the template used for NBC Nightly News – but the remarkable thing here is how well the MSNBC folks have translated a TV program to the web. The video player is huge, and the video [...]
Hidden codes, hidden mistakes
Washington Post writer Linton Weeks is leaving the paper – after taking a buyout. His final piece had a little code embedded in it: The first letter of each paragraph spelled out “Goodbye Readers.”
Then there’s this bit of geek-ness. TechCrunch notes that Google tried to be crafty – with shirts for its Google [...]
Briefs: NYT API, TiVo, CitySearch, Tru2way TV
– NYTimes.com to offer open API for custom mash-ups
– TiVo service to automatically record TV critic’s picks
– CitySearch sued for ‘encouraging’ click fraud
– Sony commits to create TVs with ‘Tru2way’ technology
Award-Winning Show, Weak Website
An RFK Memorial Journalism Award is being given to HDNet’s news program World Report for their story titled “A Silent War, A Violent Peace,” about Uganda’s civil war. The award is a great honor for the program seen on a network many people can’t watch. But I pose this question: If your show [...]
Google says Viacom’s suit ‘threatens’ internet
Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against Google’s YouTube “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information” over the web, Google said in a legal filing.
Nielsen: 25M households not ready for DTV
A new report from Nielsen says 25 million households have at least one TV set that’s not DTV-ready, and 10 million households are “completely unready.” There are 9 months to go…
