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Category: New Media
GRAY EXPANDS LOCAL NEWS LIVE
The streaming news network is now available 24/7 across all Gray platforms
SPECTRUM NEWS LAUNCHES IN MAINE, PLANS TO EXPAND TO KANSAS CITY
The company recently cut programs at its Syracuse and Rochester, NY operations
ANOTHER STREAMING OFFERING FROM ABC NEWS
The network rolls out a two-hour early evening block on “ABC News Live”
NBC NEWS STREAMER NAMES EP OF MORNING PROGRAM
Sean Reis is a network veteran
“THE WASHINGTON POST” HOOKS UP WITH ALLEN MEDIA’S “LOCAL NOW”
Once upon a time, print and broadcast ran on separate tracks. No more.
COX BREAKS INTO THE HYPERLOCAL NEWS BUSINESS
Now operating in Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC
MOVING UP IN THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE
NBC News promotes a pair
TIK-TOK AND SNAPCHAT: YOUR SOURCE FOR NEWS?! SERIOUSLY?
It's headed that way and traditional journalist organizations need to step it up
NOT ENOUGH STREAMING NEWS FOR YOU? SAY “HELLO” TO SPECTRUM NEWS +
The latest entry in the streaming news wars
BROADCASTERS JUST CAN’T GET OUT IN FRONT OF CONSUMERS
In 2023, expect digital video viewing to top traditional TV in US
STREAMING CHANNEL WITH A NEW JERSEY FOCUS DEBUTS
ONNJ – On New Jersey - a new, free streaming TV channel focusing on statewide news and events in...where else?...New Jersey, has made its debut.
DITCHING CABLE FOR DIGITAL
Gone from MSNBC, she'll be anchoring a two-hour program on NBC News Now
VETERAN TV NEWSER ASSUMES CEO POST OF NONPROFIT NEWS ORGANIZATION
He's the first CEO in the group’s history
TWITTER EMPLOYEES PUT ON NOTICE
Remote work is over as Musk throws out data governance rules
“NIGHTLINE” GOES STREAMING
“Impact X Nightline” debuts tomorrow on Hulu. ABC News’ late-night franchise “Nightline” is taking its first dip into the stream. The half-hour weekly version plans to directly target the interests and habits of people ...
WHO KNEW? LINKEDIN HAS PROGRAMMING
We somehow missed the fact that LinkedIn, the omnipresent professional networking site offers a wide variety of original programming – all of it in the realm of advice for professionals and job-seekers. And now, ...
ANOTHER LOCAL STATION GETS INTO 24/7 STREAMING NEWS
This time around it’s NOT a network O&O launching a streaming service. Capitol Broadcasting in Raleigh-Durham, NC last week launched WRAL News+, a 24/7 multi-platform local news network. There’s a bit of a twist ...
NBC NEWS LOCAL RAMPS UP MORE ON THE ROKU CHANNEL
There is already a gang of NBC Local News channels on The Roku Channel lineup. They are: NBC New York News, NBC Los Angeles News, NBC Chicago News, NBC Philadelphia News, NBC Dallas/Fort Worth ...
EIGHT NBC O&Os GOING UP ON ROKU
Starting Tuesday, viewers across the country are able to watch the news offerings of eight NBC O&Os through The Roku Channel. It is the first time local stations will be on the Roku Channel, ...
LET’S SEE IF WE CAN GUESS HER NEXT ADVENTURE
7 million views and 60,000 followers on TikTok. Morgan Wolfe has been a reporter for Bonneville’s KSL in Salt Lake City, UT who has amassed quite a following on the oft-controversial social media site. ...
WEIGEL ROLLS OUT ALL-DIGITAL NEWSCAST
WDJT, the Weigel-owned outlet in Milwaukee, WI this week launched the “CBS 58 News Quickcast,” an all-new digital newscast that promises to get users caught up on the day’s big stories and give them ...
A TRUE CRIME PODCAST COMES TO SATX
They tell us the idea the inspiration came from an actual true crime podcast that’s been at it since 2017. But we couldn’t help recalling the Steve Martin-Martin Short comedy series “Only Murders In ...
CNN+ FINALLY GETS SOMETHING IT SHOULD HAVE HAD THE DAY IT LAUNCHED – BUT IT’S NOT SUBSCRIBERS
While some are whining that CNN didn’t clean house and magically turn things around the day Warner Discovery took over, we might credit the new overseers with rectifying something that should never have happened. ...
NEWSPAPERS TAKE A PAGE FROM TV NEWS
It wasn’t that long ago that tv newsrooms were eager to get their meteorologists on the local paper’s weather page. And papers were happy to have them. Now, newspapers are looking to add their ...
THEY HOPE IT’S AN OFFER YOU CAN’T REFUSE
Forgive them if they might seem bit distracted by the recent turmoil in the executive offices, but business is business, so later this month CNN will finally enter the streaming business. CNN+ will launch ...
A PODCAST ABOUT BROADCAST (NEWS)
“Broadcast Bulletin” is a podcast put together by two guys “who share a passion of the television news industry. Both of us knew we wanted to be involved in the industry from a young ...
THE FUTURE AND REALITY OF PAY FOR THE MMJS
Here’s a deep dive into what you can expcect.
STREAMING GETS SERIOUS AT CBS NEWS
CBS News is ramping up to launch its proposed streaming news service with the naming of three senior executives to run the operation. “The Wall Street Journal’s” Anthony Galloway (left) will oversee day-to-day programming ...
COMING IN 2022: MORE STREAMING NEWS
We’re so old, we remember when, if significant news broke, all hell would break loose in the newsroom as angry callers wanted demanded to know why their favorite program was interrupted by some “special ...
AND NOW THERE ARE 8
CBS’ free streamer CBSN, is now available in the Steel City, the second market in the Keystone State for the service. This is 8th of what is expected to a 13 markets for CBSN ...
QUIBI OR NOT QUIBI?
The Weather Channel is the latest outlet to commit to providing daily programming for Quibi, the soon-to-be-launched mobile streamer for the attention-challenged. TWC will launch “Weather Today” April 6, the same day the rest ...
CBS ROLLS OUT ANOTHER LOCAL STREAMER
This time, it’s in the Mile High City, working out of O&O KCNC. Denver is the 7th of 13 cities where CBS has launched or plans to launch a 24/7 news service. “All of ...
ANOTHER CBSN OUTLET GOES LIVE
We have liftoff for CBSN Philly, the sixth of ViacomCBS’ 13 planned local direct-to-consumer streaming news services in major markets. Like its predecessors, CBSN Philly features anchored news programming, coverage of live breaking-news events ...
THE DIGITAL REALM GROWS
The options continues to grow for aspiring cord-cutters. Xumo, a streaming service that offers more than 180 digital channels of free programming, is the latest to add NBC News Now. NBC News Now, launched ...
ABC NEWS BEEFING UP ITS STREAMING STAFFING
Polish up the resumes. ABC News plans to hire up to 50 new journalists for its streaming service. In addition, the network is assigning correspondents Linsey Davis and Tom Llamas to online leadership roles ...
IS SOCIAL MEDIA REALLY A THREAT TO ACCURATE JOURNALISM?
We’d say the final verdict is not in, but social media has done some real damage to accuracy and relevance in the news business. From bots which spring up faster than social media sites ...
CBSN LAUNCHES IN FOURTH MARKET
CBS has launched its CBSN streaming service in San Francisco, a third of the way to its goal of being in 13 markets by mid-2020 “We look forward to meeting the rising demand for ...
VICE TURNING UP ON HULU
A new investigative program from Vice News received a series order from streaming partner Hulu. “Vice Investigates” will premiere the first three episodes Friday, Nov. 1. Subsequently, episodes will premiere one per month, starting ...
DEEP DIVING IN NEWS AGGREGATORS
More and more old line news organizations are trying on re-branding in the digital era to take on Facebook, Google and other digital platforms offering or soon-to-be-offering, news aggregators. Fox led the charge with ...
60 SECONDS?
For the attention-span-challenged, CBS News has teamed up with Jeffrey Katzenberg’s cutely-named Quibi to produce “60 Minutes”-style stories that won’t take up that much of your time. Quibi is a mobile short-form video platform ...
LX – THE LATEST ATTEMPT TO REACH MILLENNIALS
You say you don’t care for the traditional newscasts offered up by NBC News and its local stations? The network’s O&O group this week launched LX — a digital news brand that will produce ...
JUMPING ON THE STREAMING BANDWAGON
Yesterday we told you about NBC News’ new venture into the world of streaming. The parade continues. If CNN boss Jeff Zucker has his way, the cable network could roll out a 24/7 streaming ...
HERE COMES NEXT-GEN TV
Looks like the Next-Gen era in broadcast transmissions will begin today. This is the red-letter day the FCC says it will start accepting TV station applications to modify their licenses to allow them to broadcast in ...
PLUTO IS NOT JUST A DEMOTED PLANET
Something called Pluto TV, which is an ad-supported streaming service owned by Viacom, is adding CNN content to its lineup of programming you and I probably never see. So content from CNN would probably ...
DO YOU YOUTUBE?
Another piece of local television and local television news’ future has arrived. YouTube TV is everywhere. All 210 Nielsen markets now have access to YouTube TV. To be sure, all local stations in each ...
SINCLAIR SHUTTERS CIRCA
In addition to seeing the Tribune stations moving under the Nexstar banner, Sinclair is also licking its wounds over another failure. Its attempt to lure millennials into its lair is shutting down. Circa, the ...
THIS PODCAST THING IS CATCHING ON
Our story last week about the second season of WDIV’s podcast “Shattered’ triggered a number of communiqués from NewsBluesers around the country who would like us to know that their newsrooms are also getting ...
WDIV ANNOUNCES SECOND PODCAST SERIES
Graham Media Group and its WDIV in Detroit have come up with a new, eight-episode season of “Shattered,” an original true-crime podcast series. This will be third season for the series and will again ...
NEXSTAR LAUNCHES KRON PAY APP
Remember when KRON was a powerhouse tv news operation in San Francisco? Some of us do. The station is still recovering from the crappy stewardship of the late, unlamented Young Broadcasting although it will ...
STREAMING PICKING UP IN NYC
Less than two months into it, CBSN New York has hit the million stream mark. Not bad for new media. The local version of CBSN carries simulcasts of WCBS newscasts, as well as producing ...
SOCIAL MEDIA VET LEAVES COX FOR NEW VENTURE
The scramble to try and monetize social media is creating new opportunities in the business of local news and local news support. After 12 years with Cox Media Group, the last nearly-three of them ...
WHEN IT COMES TO FACEBOOK “IT’S NOT ME. IT’S YOU”
Let’s send out a hat tip to NBC News correspondent Kasie Hunt for breaking up with Facebook. “I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time as story after story has been written about ...
CBSN NEW YORK OFFERS LOCAL NEWS STREAMING
CBSN New York, the first of several planned services to stream anchored news coverage from CBS-owned stations in major local markets has launched. The new service will provide 24/7 news coverage and live breaking ...
SINCLAIR BRINGS IN FRESH BLOOD FOR ITS STREAMING APP
The folks at Sinclair HQ in Hunt Valley, MD reached out to the West Coast to find the top three people it need to get STIRR things up with its new, still-to-be-launched streaming app. ...
NBC LAUNCHES A DAILY NEWSCAST FOR KIDS
In the hallowed tradition of Christopher Glenn and the trailblazing “In the News,” produced by CBS News back in the 70’s and seen on Saturday mornings comes “NBC News for Universal Kids.” The program’s ...
FOX NATION SETS PRICE AND LAUNCH DATE
For those of you who just can’t get enough of Fox News 24/7, after months of teasing its format, its lineup and just about everything but its cost and when it goes online, Fox ...
FOX NATION ROLLS OUT SCHEDULE. STILL NO LAUNCH DATE OR COST
The long-promised, debut-date-still-to-be-decided Fox Nation paywalled streaming service now has a schedule. The day kicks off at 7 AM with a “highlights” program, creatively titled “Primetime Highlights,” hosted by Rob Schmitt and Carley Shimkus. ...
CBSN DEBUTS YET ANOTHER MORNING SHOW
CBSN, the streaming network of CBS News, this week rolled out still another morning show choice. “CBSN AM” is an hour-long live newscast in the 7 a.m. hour co-anchored by Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir ...
CHICAGO SPORTS GUY JOINS YAHOO
Vincent Goodwill, who covered the Chicago Bulls for NBC Sports Chicago for the past three years, is leaving the cable station to join Yahoo Sports. The new job is taking him to New York, ...
CABLE ALTERNATIVE ADDS MORE LOCAL CHANNELS
It’s getting easier and easier for folks searching for a cable alternative to find what they are looking for. FuboTV is one of those OTT internet services that is rapidly expanding, providing glad tidings ...
YAHOO FINANCE HIRES BLOOMBERG VET
The new, albeit somewhat familiar, faces at Yahoo Finance keep multiplying. The latest to join the streaming service is Julie Hyman, coming over from Bloomberg. She’s been covering financial markets for 20 years, the ...
FOX STREAMING SERVICE UNVEILS SLOGAN
And you thought “We Report. You Decide,” was a provocative, almost trolling, slogan. Fox Nation, the new streaming service of Fox News Channel hasn’t started up yet, but has already staked out its new ...
LOCALISH: GOING HYPER-LOCAL
Listen up cord-cutters: The ABC O&O group thinks they’ve come up with exactly what you’re looking for. Dubbed “Localish” (cute, huh?), the new brand focuses on hyper-local stories produced by the eight ABC-owned stations ...
FOX NATION FIRMS ITS LINEUP
For those ready to scale the pay wall to check into Fox Nation when the streaming service debuts sometime before the end of the year, this may serve as either an inducement or a ...
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER FACEBOOK WATCH LAUNCH
This time, it’s Hearst rolling out “Dispatches From The Middle,” with funding from Facebook. The program aims to present stories from smaller communities across the country. “Hearst Television’s approach to “Dispatches from the Middle” ...
SOMETHING GOOD IS HAPPENING IN CHICAGO
Seems like we all hear about the number of shootings going on these days in Chicago. Well check this out: “America to Me” is set in Chicago’s Oak Park River Forest High School. It’s ...
GOING DIGITAL
Veteran reporter Sandra Gonzalez has joined the digital world as social media producer at Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston, TX. Gonzalez was previously a digital tools trainer with the Society of Professional Journalists training ...
DIGITAL PLATFORM STAFFING UP
Digital media company ATTN: has brought in Fernando Hurtado as a producer and editor. He’ll be producing the platform’s videos covering the environment, parenting, innovation and social justice. He most recently was present at ...
ALEXA NOW BRINGS YOU THE LA NEWS
Tribune’s KTLA in Los Angeles this week unveiled a new partnership with…Alexa. The station is now offering “KTLA’s Flash Briefing,” an audio newscast that incorporates the day’s top stories and most interesting news through ...
NBC NEWS EXPANDS PROGRAMMING TO INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE
NBC News’ foray into streaming news via Snapchat has proven so successful that it is expanding the reach of “Stay Tuned”, its signature daily newscast, to Instagram and YouTube. Stay Tuned – which NBC ...
NOWTHIS LANDS CBS NEWS EXEC
Another CBS exec is taking a shot at social media as Nancy Han leaves her position as senior producer of “CBS News This Morning” for the past two years. She’ll be the executive producer ...
NY1 GOES THE PODCAST ROUTE
Spectrum’s NY1 in New York City has launched a political podcast. “Off Topic on Politics” is hosted by city hall and political reporter Grace Rauh. Statehouse reporter Zack Fink and Noticias NY1 Host of ...
CBS STARTING UP LOCAL NEWS STREAMING EFFORT
CBSN Local is coming toward the end of the year, and while, as we told you yesterday, Cox-owned WSB may have beat them to the punch, they plan to make a splash. WCBS will ...
OH, REALLY????
Glad you let us know.
NEWSY NAMES NEW HOST FOR NIGHTLY PROGRAM
Incurable political enthusiast Chance Seales (that’s what it says here) is promoted to host of “The Why” Newsy’s nightly news program. The Scripps national news program is based in Washington DC. Seales has been ...
FACEBOOK NEEDS A NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT?
Sarah Blake Morgan has moved on to new media and a bigger platform as national correspondent for Facebook Watch Morgan had been an MMJ at Raycom’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC. Before Charlotte, the Florida ...
NO, ALEX JONES HASN’T DISAPPEARED FROM FACEBOOK
Reports of conspiracy theorist/performance artist Alex Jones’ disappearance from social media are premature at best, crappy journalism at worst. We heard prior to the weekend that Facebook had courageously moved Jones off the social ...
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE INFOWARS?
Wouldn’t it be nice to line Campbell Brown up in front of a camera and ask her to explain the continued presence of “InfoWars” on Facebook? Brown, the head of Facebook’s global news partnerships ...
FACEBOOK WATCH ANNOUNCES MORE PROGRAMS
Facebook Watch’s initial lineup of programs won’t even debut until next week and already, more programs are being added to the lineup. The social network on Wednesday announced a fresh slate of programs from ...
NEWS OUT OF LEFT FIELD
If you’re looking to see what the future of news content might be, you might want to check out NBC “Left Field,” the digital video unit of NBC News launched with a license to ...
RAYCOM UNVEILS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING OTT APP
Raycom Media on Thursday rolled out a new OTT app called InvestigateTV that is hyped as showcasing longer-form reporting from Raycom as well as a select group of partners including ProPublica, News21 at Arizona ...
GRAY RACES FOR NEW IDITAROD $$$$
Iditarod is a uniquely Alaskan experience – every March, locals drop everything to focus on the 1,000-mile, eight-to-nine day dogsled race spanning from Anchorage to Nome. Coverage of the race has long been a ...
NBC NEWS’ STREAMING SERVICE GAINS FOCUS
NBC News is starting to bring in bodies to staff its still-in-the-planning-stage streaming service. One of its early hires is Christine Cataldi, who is moving over from her co-executive producing duties at “Megyn Kelly ...
FACEBOOK WATCH ANNOUNCES ITS INITIAL LINEUP
Hey, they’ve already got a name and a Facebook page for “Anderson Cooper Full Circle”, which will air nightly at 6:25 Eastern beginning later this summer on Facebook Watch. Get it? “Full Circle.” “AC ...
NEWSY EXPANDS ORIGINAL “LIVE” CONTENT
No pundits, no talking heads. That’s a selling point for “The Day Ahead” a new take on the conventional weekday morning news show that wants to spark conversation among viewers about the day’s biggest ...
FACEBOOK BRINGS THE FOXES INTO THE CHICKEN COOP
We don’t know about you, but a long time ago, we fled to Facebook as a way of getting away from the shouting heads of CNN and the exploding heads of Fox News. Now ...
PAI, MINOW COME TOGETHER TO PROMOTE TELEHEALTH
They don’t come more diametrically opposite than industry lobbyist/current FCC Chair Ajit Pai and former FCC Chairman/public steward Newton Minow. But the two combined to write an op-ed piece to promote telehealth, uniting two ...
MASTERS OF THEIR DOMAIN
ABC News is beginning to use the dot.abc web-address for news platforms. “Good Morning America” switched over to a new short domain for its URL shortening (gma.abc). Six years ago, ICANN, the international organization ...
WTF?
Calm down. We’re talking about “What the Fact”, the latest entry in the Sunday morning news and information tv wars. Only this “WTF” shows up on Newsy, the Scripps-owned, millennial-targeted national multiplatform news network. ...
ROKU COUNTING ON “ABC NEWS LIVE” AS ANCHOR CONTENT
The Roku streaming service, which a lot of millennials we know have instead of local television, is launching a news category among its free video offerings. A key component will be a new 24-hour ...
STATIONS GOING “DIGITAL FIRST” TO ATTRACT YOUNGER EYES
Local news operations are finally coming around to the idea that if they are to survive and attract the millennial demo, they have to go to them – millennials aren’t hanging around the house ...
THE AM BATTLE FOR ATTENTION HEATS UP
We suppose it’s like being in a club, right? “Good Morning America” has revamped its website and…seriously…added a daily newsletter called “GMA Wakeup.” The eternal battle between “Good Morning America” and “Today” for A.M. ...
CHEDDAR AIMS TO BE A BIG CHEESE ON YOUTUBE TV
Some call it “CNBC for millennials” which actually sounds for more grown-up than it’s real name – Cheddar. The video streaming service has already garnered an audience. Now it plans to expand that audience ...
DATA JOURNALISM PIONEER FIND A NEW HOME
While Nate Silver’s data journalism site 538 is leaving ESPN after four years, it will be a short trip. 538 is teaming up with ABC News, just in time for the mid-term election cycle. ...
TEGNA TAPS A NEW CTO
Tegna went out and found themselves a chief technology officer to position them with more of a digital content platform environment. Kurt Rao did much the same at Time Inc., where he is coming ...
WITH HIRE, KUSI SETS FOCUS ON DIGITAL FOR FUTURE
Targeting the digital audience appears to be the strategy as McKinnon’s KUSI in San Diego, CA named Tony Bernhardt Jr. its new assistant news director Bernhardt, who replaces Lisa Burger who recently departed for ...
LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST FACEBOOK, CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA AND BANNON
A Navy veteran has filed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon over the millions of Facebook accounts secretly scraped for data before the 2016 election. Jordan O’Hara ...