WNYW New York Mines Its Archives To Turn Cold Cases Into Podcasts
A trip to WNYW’s Tape Room, where the station keeps its archives, sparked an idea for reporter Dan Bowens. In the Tape Room, Bowens found old reports of crimes from the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area that have remained unsolved to this day. Bowens has produced 13 audio-only podcasts so far. Of those, four were made into TV stories and then those four were stitched together for a 22-minute special called The Tape Room.
Nielsen says its branded content testing suite has the ability to evaluate the advertising effectiveness of brand sponsorships in podcasts, focusing on three key areas.
WDIV Podcasts Reaching New Audiences
Zak Rosen, Graham Media’s podcast director, says the podcasts use archival content already generated by WDIV’s TV news coverage of the stories, updated and enlarged with new interviews in the writing of the podcasts.
KNTV Launches Venture Capital Podcast
Scott McGrew, who’s been covering business and technology for NBC’s San Jose, Calif., O&O KNTV, pitched the idea of a podcast, Sand Hill Road, named for the Palo Alto address that’s become synonymous with the Valley’s venture capital scene. Now, it’s almost through its first 10-episode “season.” Each week, McGrew sits down for an informal conversation with a prominent investor.
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WJXT Chronicles Disappearance Of 5-Year-Old Girl
WJXT, Graham Media’s independent station in Jacksonville, Fla., hopes a series of special reports and podcasts will generate new leads. The television special reports are about 3 minutes, and the podcasts, more in-depth, run about 22 minutes.
WBBM Alums Sudberry, Baskerville Start Podcast
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News “Sunday Morning” correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca has his own spin on obituaries. In a new podcast and upcoming book called — wait for […]
In the growing race for content, Homecoming, Dirty John and Lore are just the first in a likely wave of headphone-to-screen adaptations.
KSL’s New Podcast Digs Into Cold Case
COLD: Susan Powell Case Files: The Untold Story, a new weekly podcast from KSL Salt Lake City investigative reporter Dave Cawley, reveals unprecedented details into the case of a woman […]
TV show producer and distributor Fremantle is making a bet on scripted drama podcasts. With new global label Storyglass, it aims to release eight scripted drama series by the end of next summer. Although release dates haven’t been set, Storyglass has announced two podcast series are ready to go.
BuzzFeed News is closing down its in-house podcast production team. “We’ve decided to move to a production model that is more like our TV projects — that is, treating shows as individual projects, with teams brought on as needed,” Shani Hilton, VP of news and programming, said in a memo to staff obtained by TheWrap. “We’ve found a lot of success with this approach to our projects on Netflix, Facebook and Twitter, and we hope to replicate that with audio.”
In recent weeks, we’ve written about a number of legal issues that need to be considered in connection with podcasting. Another issue is sponsorship identification. Broadcasters are familiar with the FCC requirements for the identification of those who provide something of value to a station in exchange for any on-air content. While the FCC does not regulate podcasting, those issues cannot be ignored even in this online medium.
The Washington Post has hired award-winning journalist and veteran audio storyteller Madhulika Sikka as an executive producer on The Post’s audio team. Sikka will hire a team and oversee the […]
More Than Seven Dirty Words will feature interviews with FCC officials and staff and others to share untold stories, explain important policy issues and more.
KTLA Expands Digital Offerings And Podcasts
Fox O&O WFLD Chicago (DMA 3) on Monday hired Anthony Ponce to anchor with Natalie Bomke on Good Day Chicago weekdays from 4 to 6 a.m. He starts Monday, March 19. Most […]
TVN’s Harry Jessell Talks TV On Kreiner’s Korner
Podcast platform Stitcher is making a major play at South by Southwest (SXSW) next month as it showcases some of its top podcast stars and sponsors the festival’s Next Stage […]
Les Moonves Talks CBS On ‘Kreiner’s Korner’
WDIV First To Launch Graham Media Podcasts
’60 Minutes’ Boss Talks News On Kreiner’s Korner
WTTG Launches Podcasts About Murdered Family
Jeff Kreiner Talks TV In Kreiner’s Korner Podcast
“I am sad that I’m not on television anymore,” Bill O’Reilly said in an episode Monday of his personal website’s No Spin News podcast, available only to subscribers after this week’s free window. “I was very surprised how it all turned out.” O’Reilly, who exited Fox News amid sexual harassment allegations that he has denied, said he couldn’t add much more “because there’s much stuff going on right now.”
