Flash video extends to the TV screen

Here’s a big announcement at NAB: Adobe said it’s now extending its Flash video platform to play on TV screens. Since 80% of the video on the web is currently played in Flash, this is no small announcement (press release). “(It) will dramatically change the way we view content on televisions,” said David [...]

Not your standard news iPhone app

Just wanted to wave the company flag a little bit here about the Today Show’s new iPhone app (iTunes), which just launched this morning. It was built in partnership with Zumobi with a unique design approach:

Instead of the standard list of headlines and navigation, you can browse a horizontal canvas of multimedia content by [...]

NAB-RTNDA gets underway without me

For the first time in nearly a decade, I’m not in Las Vegas for the annual NAB-RTNDA show. And I imagine, not many of you are there, either. “There are, sadly, many open seats at the opening session,” Steve Safran writes. “The floor is practically empty. Still, I am hopeful that the [...]

Denver news startup backs off on goal

InDenverTimes.com was an experiment born from the ashes of the Rocky Mountain News. Organizers said it would take 50,000 paid subscribers by April 23rd to convince them to turn the experiment into a full-fledged operation. But as we’ve mentioned before, 50,000 in a market the size of Denver is a huge number — [...]

‘Live. Local. BROKEN News’

Lost Remote emeritus Steve Safran and the rest of the team at AR&D have published a new book that encapsulates the tremendous challenges facing the local TV industry. “Live. Local. BROKEN News. The Re-engineering of Local TV” advocates fresh, strategic approaches to reinvent the industry that is shaping up to be in a lot [...]

CNN acquires popular CNN Twitter account

Since nearly Twitter’s inception, CNNbrk has diligently republished CNN’s breaking news alerts, one by one. Soon it became Twitter’s most popular account, with over 900,000 followers. But CNNbrk was not owned by CNN, but by James Cox, who recently sold the account to CNN for an undisclosed sum, reports Silicon Alley Insider. [...]

Analyzing a new plan to charge for news

Ken Doctor has the best analysis I’ve seen so far about a new company called Journalism Online — backed by folks like Steven Brill, Gordon Crovitz, Merrill Brown and others — that aims to roll out a common platform for charging people to consume news content. Haven’t we tried this before? Well, desperate [...]

Non-profit local news site teams with TV

SeattlePostGlobe.org, the first of two employee startups to come out of the Seattle PI, has just launched. It has partnered with Seattle public TV station KCTS — as well as Seattle Weekly on the advertising front — to provide a non-profit approach to local news. “As in Denver, where the journalists of the [...]

Webby nominees announced, local?

It’s that time of year, and the long list of nominees for a 2009 Webby Award has been released. NYTimes.com (13) and NBC.com (12) come out with the most nominations. Great list, as always, but perhaps its time the Webby folks add a category for local?

ESPN launches Chicago site

ESPN’s first foray into local launched this morning, ESPNChicago.com. “In our minds, this site, one dedicated to all of Chicagoland sports at every level, is long overdue,” writes columnist Scoop Jackson. In addition to ESPN stories on Chicago teams, the site also features content from the ESPN Radio station as well as the [...]

Exploring new models of local news

Last night I moderated a panel discussion here in Seattle that looked at our area’s growing non-traditional local news scene, from neighborhood news sites to Newsvine to two new startups springing from the death of the print version of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  One of these startups, InvestigationsWest, plans to focus on investigative stories and then [...]

RTNDA Edward R. Murrow awards announced

Seems like quite a few divisions without any web winners this year. Quick list below – full list of all winners here.

KOMO, Seattle, WA – komonews.com
KREM, Spokane, WA – KREM.COM
KGMB-TV, Honolulu, HI – KGMB9.com
KCNC-TV, Denver, CO – cbs4denver.com
WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, MN – WCCO.com
KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, SD – KELOLAND.com
WBNS-TV, Columbus, OH – 10TV.com
WRAL-TV, Raleigh, NC – WRAL.com
WJAR-TV, [...]

Europe: Internet will surpass TV in 14 months

A Microsoft report, “Europe logs on: Internet trends of today and tomorrow,” finds that European Internet consumption in 2010 will average 14.2 hours per week compared to 11.5 hours a week spent watching TV. Aside from telling us that Europeans watch way less TV than Americans do (Nielsen has the average American watching 28 hours [...]

AP complains over YouTube video, hilarity ensues

Oh the AP.
WTNQ Radio in Tennessee embedded an Associated Press video on its website — from YouTube. Then a regional AP rep e-mailed the station demanding they take it down, saying it was a violation of the station’s license agreement. The AP also offered to sign the station up for some AP web [...]

AP threatens to sue aggregators, search engines

Today the AP came out swinging against web sites that post its content without authorization.  According to the New York Times, the AP is especially concerned about search engines and aggregators, and the fact that somebody else — primarily Google, it seems — is making money off their material.  The AP doesn’t so much want [...]