‘NBC Olympics on the Go’ launches
While you can watch streaming video via Silverlight on NBCOlympics.com, Microsoft Vista Media Center users can tap into a new service called “NBC Olympics On The Go” that lets you download and watch “up to HD quality” Olympic videos. “Once events have downloaded, they’ll be there to view anytime, anywhere — online or off,” explains [...]
CNN.com top ‘gateway’ to news
CNN.com says it’s the top “gateway” to news with its home page generating 60 percent more unique visitors than those of its competitors in June, according to Nielsen/Netratings. CNN.com’s Political Ticker blog attracted more than 4 million unique visitors and 12.3 million page views in June, making it the number one political news blog, CNN.com says. On the video front, CNN.com served 108 million video streams, a 70 percent increase over last year, which includes nearly 4 million live streams served by CNN.com Live. The new user-generated content site iReport.com reached 4 million streams in June with more than 2.5 million unique users and 9.5 million views. Press release with more data below…
We’ll do it live! SportsCenter to go live in the AM
Starting August 11th, ESPN will dunk the SportsCenter repeats in the morning and start new live shows. The new news wheel will run from 9am to 3pm weekdays. An increased focus on interactivity is planned – with more use of ESPN.com and ESPN Radio assets. A new SportsCenter.com site will also launch on the 11th.
Moonves projects $1 billion in interactive revenue
On this morning’s CBS earnings call, paidContent reports that CEO Les Moonves praised the purchase of CNET. Moonves then went on to say, “The stated goal is to reach $1 billion in revenue in the next three years, from the mid-$600 million this year.” Also mentioned in the call was the deal between AOL and [...]
Briefs; Google, Google and Google
Google’s going to open a new venture capital unit to help seed smaller start-up companies, according to the Wall Street Journal. The search engine giant is starting to reveal when search results are custom-tailored. A new “Search results customized for…” tag-line will start to appear on results, according to the NYT. This will give end-users [...]
Earth shakes, YouTubers roll
Check out the literally hundreds of LA earthquake videos… Citizen Journalism is here to stay.
What local media could learn from yellow pages
Borrell Associates’ latest report contains some valuable insight for local TV stations and newspapers on how the yellow pages companies are quickly figuring out how to transition online, especially in sales. As you can see in the graph, yellow pages have substantial local sales teams. “Of all local media companies, yellow pages publishers have been [...]
The CNN.com windfall
It’s becoming a dirty little secret in the cubicles occupied by web producers and managers all over the country. Get a story on CNN.com and see your traffic explode. The mega-news site is now linking to stories done by affiliates of its CNN Newsource service. CNN doesn’t ask for anything in return, but in my [...]
Piece for MSNBC.com jumps to Nightly News
A “cute animal” piece on a penguin capped off a recent weekend edition of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. The story was produced, shot and edited by an NN producer for use on Nightly.MSNBC.com – and later made the leap to TV. Tim Peek with NBC’s Peacock Productions unit describes how the “for web” [...]
Arianna Huffington on her ‘Post’
I’ll admit, when I heard the idea of the Huffington Post, I thought that ‘just’ a liberal Drudge Report didn’t make a ton of sense. Now HuffPo might be the best example of an online news/opinion site online. It’s both deep and wide – with tons of topics and lots of stories. Poynter has a [...]
Surprise! Online viewing is not all additive
Approximately 20 percent of TV show viewing now occurs on the web, reveals a new study by Integrated Media Measurement (.pdf download) that had participants track their media consumption habits via their cell phones. Of that number, 50 percent of the online viewing is a replacement to TV viewing, 31.3 percent is catch-up viewing and [...]
Gannett invests in Mogulus
At NAB earlier this year, we reported that Gannett had inked a white-label deal with Mogulus to provide live streaming for a few newspaper sites. Now there’s news Gannett has invested “around $10 million” in the company to power live streaming for the rest of its newspaper and TV sites. So what’s so unique about [...]
Purchase price of WTVJ: $205 million
The Miami station’s price tag was initially estimated at $350 million.
The first built-from-scratch DTV station
Broadcasting & Cable has a fascinating cover story on WMBF in Myrtle Beach, a brand new 100% digital TV station that’s being built from the ground up. The Raycom NBC affiliate will go live on 8-8-2008, the same day as the Olympics begins. Watch some of the behind-the-scenes work below… Birth of a Station from [...]
NFL to stream Sunday night games
The NFL is very controlling and “analog” when it comes to digital distribution, but now there’s word it will stream Sunday night games — a simulcast of NBC’s coverage — on NBCSports.com and NFL.com. “We are taking a big leap here,” said Steve Bornstein, chief executive of the NFL Network. “We are looking at this [...]
Google walks away from possible Digg deal
TechCrunch is reporting that Google has decided not to acquire Digg (in the $200 million range) just when the discussions were moving into their final stages. How many is this now for Digg?
AP invests in mobile technology company
AP has participated in a $3 million round of financing in Verve, a mobile news services company that’s powering AP’s recently announced Mobile News Network. “Verve Wireless’s mission is to save the local paper by making it mobile,” writes Claire Cain Miller in the New York Times. As Rafat points out on PaidContent, this is [...]
Another newspaper launches another boring webcast
Yes, I’m in full snark mode (and I’m not even being kept up by a baby). But the AP has a glowing write-up on the New Jersey Star-Ledger’s new webcast, set to launch Monday. Some of the practice runs are already posted… and here’s a shock… they’re boring. The print journo/anchor recapped the headline from [...]
