Kent Chapline
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 [...]
RTNDA extends awards deadlines
If you’d been planning to enter the RTNDA’s Murrow or UNITY awards competitions, they just extended the deadlines. This year they made the entry process all-digital, which is a great step. But today they say they’ve been having some problems with their system, so they extended the Murrow deadline until February 13 and the UNITY [...]
The CBS stations’ inauguration player in HD
Here at the CBS stations we’re pretty proud of our HD inauguration player, too (see Cory’s recent post about MSNBC’s player). It has 7 user-switchable HD feeds from different angles around Washington, one of which is CBS’ anchored coverage. It also has video of all the inaugural speeches going back to FDR, and an embedded [...]
Rival papers to share sports content
The Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram say they will start trading “basic coverage” of the major league sports teams in DFW. The S-T will handle the Texas Rangers for both papers, the DMN will cover the Dallas Mavericks and Stars, and each paper will continue to cover the Cowboys on its own. [...]
Detroit papers cutting home delivery to 3 days each week
Both Detroit daily papers, the Free Press and The Detroit News, say they’re making a big change come March. Â They’ll only throw the hard copy to the doorstep on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. Â They’ll still sell copies at newsstands every day, but if you want the dead tree version on a Tuesday you’ll have to [...]
Fox, NBC stations teaming up for local news
TV Week reports Fox and NBC are teaming up for local news coverage. The video-sharing arrangement will start in January in Philly, where their O&Os have been testing it since the summer. Later, they’ll add their O&Os in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth and DC. They say they will also make the video [...]
Ad networks already dying, as predicted
Five days ago, Cory wrote about the coming death of “dozens and dozens” of ad networks, as predicted by Razorfish’s Jeff Lanctot. Here we go. (via ContentAgenda)
Big innovation at small Vegas paper
Geneva Overholser over at OJR wrote a nice little post on the innovative spirit at the Las Vegas Sun, one of my favorite local sites in the country. The dead tree version of the Sun is a small paper. But the Sun’s site can go toe-to-toe with anybody. We’ve written before about some of the [...]
Murrow, 50 years ago today
“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it’s nothing but wires and lights in a box.” –Edward R. Murrow, October 15, 1958
Rick Sanchez’s success with Twitter + TV
Today’s Miami Herald has a good article about the way Rick Sanchez’s afternoon CNN show integrates Twitter/Facebook/MySpace. No doubt many of the LR faithful have watched with interest as the show has unfolded over the past few weeks. It moves fast and jumps around a lot, especially for a network show (not that that’s a [...]
Sling Media about to launch video portal
The folks behind the Slingbox are starting to show off their upcoming video portal and sharing service, sling.com. They announced it many months ago, but now they’re inviting some Slingbox users to a private beta. According to the invitation that TechCrunch has, Sling says the service will let users edit and upload short clips of [...]
Boston Globe launches new weekly sports tabloid
Today the Boston Globe launches its new 24-page weekly sports tabloid, called OT. Beyond the obvious (which they never mention because it is so obvious), they say OT stands for “Our Town/Our Teams.” It’s going to focus on Boston’s big four pro sports teams. They plan to print it every Thursday, just in time for [...]
Twitter redesigns
Late this afternoon Twitter rolled out a new design and tweaked their technology. As they explain in their blog, they rearranged the navigation a little, added some page-customization options, and set it up to refresh posts with AJAX instead of loading the whole page every time. Looks sharp.
Multi-station, multi-market analog switchoff tests planned
Group station owner ION is working with cable & satellite providers and other station owners to set up a multi-market analog switchoff test for next month. So far, B&C says stations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Philly and Hartford have signed up. Ten days ago, most of the stations in Wilmington, [...]
Fox Sports boss not sold on streaming games
Hot on the heels of NBC’s live stream of the first NFL game of the season, the head of Fox Sports says he’s not sure how much he likes the idea of streaming games. Ed Goren told Broadcasting & Cable “the big dog is definitely viewership on network television and the ad revenue that generates.” [...]
More big newspaper layoffs/buyouts announced
It’s the same sad song, different sad verse. Today three newspapers announced layoffs or buyout offers that could affect more than 500 jobs altogether. Two are McClatchy papers: the Charlotte Observer, which aims to eliminate about 75 positions, and the Raleigh News & Observer, which is cutting 320 jobs has offered buyouts to 320 employees. [...]
