The network’s Local Now streaming service A tech-driven spinoff delivers a customized local news feed for each of Local Now’s 25 premium markets, putting pressure on traditional TV newsrooms to reassess how best to serve and keep their viewers, not to mention attract new ones.
Two Former WFAA Anchors Team For Podcast
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s comments Thursday were covered with fanfare. ABC, CBS and NBC broke into regular programming to cover the appearance live, and Fox offered a feed to local affiliates. Cable news outlets including CNN, Fox News and MSNBC offered extensive analysis.
At 6 a.m. today, the network officially debuted NBC News Now, an ad-supported digital news channel available to stream on the NBC News mobile app, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon FireTV and NBCNews.com/now.
ESPN’s deeper investment in Snapchat comes as other publishers like the New York Times and Bleacher Report have paused their channels. But for ESPN, producing shows on Snapchat aligns with its digital strategy of meeting sports fans in places they already are. Snapchat also has proven to be a useful way to make revenue and to direct viewers to ESPN on television and to content on ESPN+.
Exclusives
Getting young adults to watch television news has long been a challenge. But in the past, news directors and station executives could wait until the youngsters got a job, bought a house, got married and had children. Eventually, they’d tune in. But with the growth of the digital world and the explosion of mobile technology, that traditional maturation process in terms of consuming TV news has been interrupted.
PBS NewsHour has expanded CANVAS, its broadcast and digital arts reporting initiative, with $1.7 million in support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The expansion aims to improve […]
On HBO, Instagram — even Fox News — aspirants are having a meta debate: How do you counterprogram a reality-TV president?
‘Good News’ Reporter Finds Some Of Her Own
WBTV Charlotte social media star Kristen Hampton opens up about how she purposefully hid the fact that she was gay from her audience for years. What happened — and what didn’t — when she finally came out.
Chris Berend, an executive who has been overseeing digital video for CNN and helped launch Great Big Story, a streaming-video site aimed at younger audiences, will jump to NBC News to lead its digital efforts. Berend will replace Nick Ascheim, who will move into a new role that is described as “improving digital and product for NBCU and NBC News Group broadly.”
KSAT Reporter Shoots Weekly Foodie Segment On iPhone
Weather A Fulltime Job For WBMA’s James Spann
Connecticut Public today appointed Tim Rasmussen chief content officer, effective May 30. Rasmussen will report directly to Connecticut Public President-CEO Mark G. Contreras. Rasmussen joins Connecticut Public from his position as director of photography, digital and print media, at ESPN where he coordinated and oversaw photographic coverage for the network worldwide, as well as all photo-driven stories on all the company’s digital platforms, ESPN the Magazine and in coordination with ESPN broadcast television. Prior to joining ESPN, Rasmussen was assistant managing editor, photography and multimedia at the Denver Post, where he provided direction and vision for the 630,000-circulation daily. Under his leadership his team was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for photography, and one for breaking news reporting, in addition to six national Edward R. Murrow awards. As chief content officer, Rasmussen will oversee all content produced and distributed by Connecticut Public, including Connecticut Public Radio, Connecticut Public Television (CPTV, CPTV Create and Spirit) and all of Connecticut Public’s digital and online platforms.
CBSN, the 24-hour free streaming video news network from CBS News, is now averaging more than 1 million video streams per day, according to the company. Roughly 80% of CBSN’s daily live streams are happening on live content versus on-demand clips of various news segments.
Fox News is known for its flagship property, the Fox News Channel, but in months to come executives intend to expand, the unit’s top executive told investors Thursday. “Fox news is an important part of the company’s DNA,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scottsaid to an assembly gathered for an “Investor Day” held by Fox Corp., its first big public meeting after selling a large chunk of assets to Walt Disney. “We are truly agnostic to the form in which our content is consumed.”
NewsNet, the 24-hour news network focused on delivering headlines without talk and opinion-based programming, has broken ground on an expansion to their studios in Cadillac, Mich. The 3,500 square-foot addition […]
WFTS Tampa Expands Local News
The Scripps ABC affiliate is rolling out seven hours of new newscasts on broadcast and streaming platforms beginning June 3.
It’s also rolling out its own audience measurement and new blacklist policy.
Chuck Rosenberg is charting an unusual course for a TV news outlet. NBC News will be ecstatic in coming days if Rosenberg’s conversations with newsmakers are heard but not seen. There are new efforts ahead, says Steve Lickteig, executive producer of podcasts and audio for NBC News and MSNBC. Chuck Todd’s weekly podcast related to Meet the Press was recently revamped. The company plans to launch several new podcasts throughout 2019, including one that will eventually become a daily one focused on the 2020 election.
Hearst Aims For News Transparency, Relatability
Hearst Television’s SVP of news says local newscasts don’t need a radical reinvention to stay relevant to younger audiences, but they must adhere to trust and transparency in a more relatable voice.
The Obamas say they “couldn’t be more excited” about the projects they’re announcing Tuesday for their Netflix production company. The lineup includes a series about food aimed at preschoolers, a scripted drama about the post-World War II fashion world and a documentary film focused on American factories.
Altice USA has signed a deal to buy the youth-skewing business news startup Cheddar for $200 million in cash. The acquisition will bolster the broadband and cable giant’s Altice News service as Cheddar offers youth-skewing news content around business, technology, culture and politics. Altice USA last year began offering Cheddar via its Altice One platform and was an early investor in the digital-first company.
OTT Revenue Pioneers Join Summit
Dave Francois of E.W. Scripps.; Anthony Katsur of Nexstar; Erin Overstreet of Gray Television; and Alan Blackburn of KSL-TV Salt Lake City will offer insights into their experiences in “Monetizing OTT: Ad Sales and Subscriptions” at TVNewsCheck’s annual conference on June 11.
Quietly, NBC’s Andrew Lack, news chairman, has been the key person behind Mississippi Today, an online news site that has been operating for three years. It is one of several experimental approaches to journalism seeking traction during a painful time of retrenchment for local news.
Scripps-owned Newsy has added five more bureaus and expanded beyond a collection of online and mobile news packages to an OTT channel and to 38 million cable homes. And while Newsy bills itself as a “next-generation news network” aimed at millennials, its distinctive approach has valuable lessons for local broadcasters striving to adapt to a changing competitive landscape.
Five Takeaways From NAB 2019
The NAB Show still features a mind-numbing sprawl of video cameras and booms and rigs, enough to overwhelm even the most rabid broadcast engineer. But NAB has truly evolved to become a gathering that now represents the present and future of media.
Reporter Becomes Go-To Source After Tornado
Spending a few minutes talking with WRBL Columbus, Ga., reporter Elizabeth White will remind you why you chose journalism as a profession. She’s the type of content creator who sees her job as a public service. That’s exactly what she provided March 3 in the hours after an EF-4 tornado tore through the eastern Alabama town of Beauregard.
Change Your Tools To Change Your News
Broadcast newsrooms struggling to “break out of the formula” and accelerate change should start by changing their tools. The tools we use shape the journalism we produce. Whether your newsroom goal is to increase inclusiveness of your reporting, innovate in story and show formats, or simply to develop more efficient workflows to free up reporters’ time for more enterprise content, there are tools that can accelerate news transformation.
David Arkin To Lead Digital At KPRC Houston
Graham Media’s NBC affiliate KPRC Houston (DMA 7) has appointed David Arkin its new director of digital and enterprise content. In this newly revamped role previously known as digital executive producer, […]
In tweets over the past week, Trump repeated his contention that the mainstream media is the enemy of the people, and said the Times’ and Post’s Pulitzers should be stripped. The Times, in response, tweeted a picture of its Pulitzer winners and noted that every story cited in their prize-winning entry has been proven correct.
