The stations will deliver real-time traffic and road updates to audiences in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
NBC Stations Eye Growth In Instagram, Voice
The NBC O&Os are making audience inroads on platforms where many other station groups have feared to tread. Digital chief Lora Dennis says early moves on Instagram’s IGTV and voice platforms like Amazon and Google have been promising, and bilingual digital collaborations with its Telemundo stations are also proliferating.
NBC/Telemundo Program Grows Station Marketers
Most people who work in local TV marketing come to the position by happenstance. A new program at the NBC/Telemundo owned stations fast tracks candidates with the right stuff to step right into a position at their stations. “We really should be growing our own,” said Dianne Hannes, creative services director at WMAQ, NBC’s Chicago O&O.
Also adding the Rhiza and Voter Ratings to their suite of services for local TV measurement are nine NBC Sports regional networks.
The new agreement brings Comscore’s linear TV and local mobile and desktop insights, as well as its political, automotive and consumer targeting segments to all NBC and Telemundo owned stations.
IP-enabled production and playout models promise cost savings and increased flexibility. And once content flows through a data center, artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to generate metadata and direct the future distribution, repurposing and archiving of that content.
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NBC Stations’ Staab Underscores Localism, Tech
Valari Staab is leading her NBC and Telemundo stations into the future with heavy emphasis on finding the best in new technology and synergies that allow her local journalists to develop more locally produced, original content for the stations on a multitude of platforms. (Photo: Wendy Moger-Bross)
NBC Stations Expanding IP News In 2019
NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations group, after rolling out a new plant in Philadelphia without an SDI router that uses as much IP as possible, will be creating a virtualized architecture for KLBR, its Telemundo station in Las Vegas, in which most of the back-end equipment used to run the station, including news production, will be located at a data center in Dallas. And then there’s the new facility NBCU is building in Boston, which will include six control rooms and six studios and accommodate four separate NBCU businesses. A big driver is increased support for the 2110 IP standard from the broadcast vendor community. (Photo: Wendy Moger-Bross)
Used exclusively by NBC/Telemundo station meteorologists, the StormRanger radar trucks are honored for revolutionizing the timeliness and accuracy of local weather forecasting and reporting.
NBC/Telemundo Stations Give Millions To Nonprofits
The NBCUniversal Foundation and NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations today announced a total of $2.475 million in Project Innovation grants for 62 nonprofits located all across the country. Launched earlier this […]
NBCU’s Telemundo Station Group adds nine stations in six markets in the $75 million deal announced in December. The group now boasts stations in 24 markets in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Olympics veterans Bruce Beck, Brian Curtis, Katie Kim, JC Monahan, Kevin Nathan, Eun Yang and news anchors/reporters from 10 markets travel to South Korea to cover the XXIII Winter Olympics and deliver unique content across all station platforms including television, digital and social.
Thousands Of Animals To Escape Shelters Saturday
Mandy Anderson New WVIT Sales VP
NBC moves her from local sales manager at KNTV San Francisco to head sales at its Connecticut affiliate.
As vice president of digital product management and design, Azza Elsheikh will lead the station division’s product and designs teams.
The 2017 NAB Show exhibition opens Monday, April 24, and there will be much to see for broadcast engineers and technologists who find themselves grappling with the repack of the TV spectrum and a nearly completed new broadcast standard. Five top techs — one each from Gray Television, NBCU O&Os, Nexstar Media Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tegna Media — talk technology and what they will be looking for at this year’s NAB Show. For a recap of TVNewsCheck’s multi-part roundup of NAB Tech Hot Topics, click here.
The interactive in-app radar, developed with The Weather Co., offers users access to weather information by seamlessly connecting public, fixed and mobile radar information in one place.
Walter Cade is tasked with managing revenue across the NBC regional sports networks as well as working with the NBC and Telemundo stations on multi-market and individual cross-platform sales.
NBC O&O’s Gamba, Morris Explain Set Theory
NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations’ Therese Gamba, SVP of marketing and acquired programming, and Jeff Morris, SVP of operations and technology, discuss trends in local news set design, how they approach working with O&Os, new technologies that are improving on-air presentations and making storytelling better and where the stations stand with the latest tech. This is Part Three of a four-part Special Report on news sets. Parts One and Two appeared Tuesday and covered big video displays and monitor arrays (Part One) and the growing use of video display controllers (Part Two). Part Four on Thursday takes a close-up at the innovative approaches in use at WTXF Philadelphia and KDKA Pittsburgh.You can read the other parts here.
Juarez Named WTVJ-WSCV Digital Director
Debra Juarez, who guided the expansion and resurgence of WMAQ Chicago during five years as news director, is leaving the NBC O&O to head digital operations for two of the parent company’s stations in Miami.
NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations broke new ground in TV weather with the introduction of the first in a fleet of StormRanger dual-polarization Doppler radar trucks that make it possible for stations to get a look at storms in gaps left uncovered by fixed tower-mounted weather radar systems.
The team — representing 19 U.S. markets served by the NBC-owned stations and Telemundo Station Group — is charged with delivering distinctively local stories that will run on various platforms during the 17-day event that kicks off on Aug. 5.
Local News Use Of Facebook Features Grows
More and more TV stations and other news producers are turning to Facebook’s Live and Instant Articles features to deliver their content directly on Facebook’s platform and tap into its huge mobile audience. However, that means ceding a lot of control to Facebook, starting with letting original content live natively on its platform. And it remains to be seen how much ad money publishers will get from the arrangement.
The NBCUniversal Foundation and NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations are partnering for the fifth annual 21st Century Solutions grant challenge, which celebrates and supports local nonprofit organizations. The goal of the […]
5. NBCUNIVERSAL OWNED TELEVISION STATIONS, New York 2015 Spot Revenue: $1.289 billion Stations: 28 in 20 markets (includes Telemundo stations) Coverage: 36.7% Ownership: Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA) Key Executives: Brian Roberts, chairman-CEO, Comcast Corp.; Steve Burke, […]
Marketing Masters: NBCU’s Therese Gamba
This is the first in a series of articles about the people whose jobs are to get people to watch TV, specifically local news. As SVP of marketing and acquired programming for the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, Therese Gamba oversees the marketing efforts of 30 properties that include the NBC and Telemundo stations as well as the TeleXitos and Cozi diginets.
Stations Wary Of Distributed Content
Allowing original content to live entirely on other platforms has spread through online publishing with locomotive force. Some broadcasters are experimenting with it, but many worry it will erode traffic to their own websites and apps after spending years cultivating it.
20,000 Animals Tell NBC/Telemundo, ‘Thank You’
The NBCUniversal Foundation has partnered with the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations to announce the launch of the fourth annual 21st Century Solutions competitive grant challenge. The program will award 30 […]
NBCUniversal’s 21st Century Solutions grant challenge will award $1.2 million in grants to help nonprofits advance innovative solutions in local communities.
The second annual 21st Century Solutions grant program rewards social innovation from 30 local nonprofits in 10 markets.
In a reorganization, Valari Staab, president of the NBC Owned Television Stations will also oversee Telemundo’s 16 TV stations as well as Boston-based regional cable news network NECN.
Allowing original content to live entirely on other platforms has spread through online publishing with locomotive force. Some broadcasters are experimenting with it, but many worry it will erode traffic to their own websites and apps after spending years cultivating it.
