If you’ve been anxiously awaiting ESPN’s new streaming service ESPN+, it will be a short wait. ESPN’s new streaming service is set to launch April 12, and will offer daily live MLB and NHL ...
Recent surveys would seem to indicate we’re not as thrilled with our social media as we were as recently as five months ago. Facebook’s recent stumbles in the realm of data gathering and selling ...
Instead of putting the Cambridge Analytica problem behind his company, Facebook guru Mark Zuckerberg seems to be increasingly engulfed by it. Zuckerberg, who has finally come to terms with the idea that he has ...
The landscape keeps changing in a world we once assumed would last forever. Turner on Tuesday unveiled its latest streaming service – “Bleacher Report Live.” The subscription service will feature live broadcasts of UEFA ...
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Facebook, which not only wants to be your repository for cat pictures and dinner plate portraits, but also wants to be your source for news. That ...
Well Mr. Zuckerberg, thanks for finally speaking up. “We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you. I’ve been working to understand exactly what ...
So much for “leaning in.” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg joined founder Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday in skipping a companywide internal briefing and Q&A Tuesday that was scheduled to brief employees on the still-growing international scandal ...
Pardon us if we are a bit skeptical in the wake of the Poynter Institute’s announced acceptance of $3 million from Google/YouTube that will fund something called MediaWise, which, in theory, will help middle ...
Anyone with even the smallest bit of curiosity as to how “fake news” is created should be paying attention as the story of Facebook’s role in Trump-Bannon ally Cambridge Analytica’s data mining operation unfolds. ...
Like Facebook, YouTube wants to be in the news business. Also like Facebook, YouTube doesn’t want to take responsibility for the quality of the content that shows up on its platform. At the SXSW ...
Is this finally the year that more of us get our news from online rather than teevee? Sure, it’s still the oldsters who turn to the tube for what passes for news: 58 percent ...
You may never have heard of it, but CNN has a talk show that reaches in the neighborhood of two million Facebook users. And starting next Monday, “CNN Talk” goes daily on both CNN ...
Graham Media is partnering its teevee stations in San Antonio (KSAT) and Detroit (WDIV) with Nextdoor, the free and private social network for neighborhoods, to boost conversations around local news in communities across both ...
Radio on TV via the Internet. Simple, right? Comcast is adding NPR One to its Xfinity One App sket-top box menu. In the coming weeks, NPR content also will be integrated into Xfinity on ...
Yesterday, CBS launched CBS Sports HQ, a free 24-hour streaming sports news network. The ad-supported service features updates, scores, highlights and analysis, drawing from the resources of CBS Sports and its various digital properties ...
Much as we enjoy seeing what the folks on our friend’s list had for dinner, watching their “live” and recorded reports on family reunions, and reading journalists’ snarky takes on the stories they are ...
The pink slips are flying at digital media company Vox Media, where 50 employees are being told their services are no longer needed due to “industry changes.” The layoffs, which amount to 5% of ...
Can’t get enough of Fox News? Or maybe you’ve cut the cord and can’t sleep at night because you miss it so terribly. Here comes Fox Nation, a standalone subscription service that will be ...
Nope, as far as we can see, this one has never been done before. Bonneville International’s KSL in Salt Lake City is the first tv station to cut a deal for sports rights, but ...
Twitter finally came up in the black revenue-wise in 2017’s fourth quarter, posting a profit of $91 million. That’s still not close to overcoming the $167 million the company lost in the same quarter ...
The tech whizzes from Silicon Valley have, by now established that every time they dip their toe into the waters of actual news, they stub themselves on a rock. YouTube is the latest with ...
The Telemundo Station Group is rolling out updated station apps and websites that feature “Telemundo En Vivo” (Telemundo Live), a new TV Everywhere experience for digital and mobile app users. “Our new Telemundo En ...
CNN’s recent practice of getting the hell out of digital initiatives if they don’t prove quickly profitable continues with the gutting of CNN Moneystream. A handful of tech staffers were shown the door Thursday. ...
First CNN dumped its almost-new daily Snapchat news program “The Update” in December while other outlets, most notably NBC, appear to have entered millennial territory with measurable success. Then last week, CNN swallowed the ...
One of the most popular news anchors among teens is Savannah. No, not that Savannah. This Savannah is Savannah Sellers who, with Gadi Schwartz, hosts the NBC News Snapchat show “Stay Tuned.” Snapchat is ...
CNN is finding out the hard way that YouTube celebrity does not a successful enterprise make. In an epic fail, CNN is shuttering Beme — the video company it acquired from and hoped to ...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo followed through on his criticism of the Pai FCC’s dismantling of net neutrality rules by signing an executive order that mandates net neutrality in state contracts for broadband service. ...
Lawmakers in at least six state governments have introduced legislation to preserve net neutrality rules, and legislators in other states are in the process of considering their own net neutrality bills. Concurrently, fifty Senate ...
A day after we told you about the launch of a new news app from Sinclair’s Circa unit, the rest of the story drops. Left unmentioned in the news of all the golly-gee-whiz hype ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Circa, a national digital news platform, is set to launch a video-driven, live news app this week. The innovation will allow Circa to capitalize on breaking news stories from Sinclair’s national ...
We have a couple friends who got one of those Alexa deals as a Christmas present and we’re already tired of hearing about it. Too bad for us. It’s only going to get worse. ...
A year ago, amid much fanfare, the Facebook Journalism Project was launched with former network anchor-correspondent Campbell Brown at the helm. The initiative was to help smooth things over and facilitate relationships between the ...
After months of hard work, I am delighted to officially launch the new and improved www.newsblues.com website this morning or as I like to call it NewsBlues 2.0. Our goal with this updated website ...
Those “Disputed Flags” that Facebook has been using to identify fake news for users are going away. They were the red flags placed next to the articles in question. And the reason is either ...
And now the broadcasters are dipping their toes into the world of podcasting. Graham Media’s WDIV in Detroit, MI is beginning a series of podcasts called “Mismatch”, stories about the incompatible, the unsuitable and ...
CBS’ three-year experiment in bypassing cable and going to streaming news looks like it’s starting to pay off. The CBS News ad-supported streaming service has drawn more than 280 million livestreams in 2017. That’s ...
Not all of the social media experiments work out the way we hoped. CNN’s dip into the Snapchat world, “The Update”, has been cancelled after just four months. Evidently, advertisers didn’t flock to support ...
There’s a millennial audience out there hungry to be served, and it may be that Scripps’s Newsy is filling the bill. Newsy features in-depth coverage of the day’s U.S. news and stories from around ...
This should prove interesting. Twitter is trying to clean up its act with regard to hate mongers after spending several years sharply focused on rigidly policing the transmission of boob and butt shots. This ...
Remember that phrase, in case it goes viral. Chamath Palihapitiya is a former Facebook executive making waves after he spoke out about his “tremendous guilt” over growing the social network. Palihapitiya began working for ...
According to a recent Morning Consult/Politico poll, more than half of the nation’s voters favor some sort of “net neutrality” regulation. Only 18% support the position of ISP industry lobbyist and FCC chair ...
Peter Hamby is a CNN veteran who is the new news director of Snapchat. The mobile app aspires to be a trendsetter for media outlets by reaching younger audiences with the news stories and ...
VAN SUSTEREN A TRUE SOCIAL MEDIA BELIEVER Greta Van Susteren, who formerly anchored shows on CNN, Fox News and (briefly) MSNBC, has a new book all about social media out called “Everything You Need ...
You diehard NFL fans secure in your firm belief that your favorite sport will always be freely available on over the air television need to wake up. Verizon Communications is thisclose to a new ...
In a perfect world, people like us who spent half their working lives in local television would righteously shun anything that threatened the existence of local tv. Like Netflix. We can’t. We admit it. ...
