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.
Kelly Abcarian, GM of advanced video advertising for Nielsen, called it “Nielsen’s new opportunity.” The company is positioned to support ad targeting and measurement, while transforming the C3 metric to account for addressable.
FuboTV subscribers can watch Newsy’s up-to-the-minute news coverage, its full lineup of live shows including The Day Ahead and The Why, and its award-winning documentaries and investigations.
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News Orgs Ask ‘Build Or Buy’ Streaming Tech?
CBS Interactive’s Ashutosh Nayak, CNN’s Rajin Persaud, CBC’s Roma Kojima and Local Now’s Jeremy Jones will make up a panel examine the pros and cons of building streaming technology in house or working with outside vendors at TVNewsCheck’s OTT News Summit on June 11. Frost & Sullivan’s Dan Rayburn will moderate.
For the first time, U.S. digital advertising revenues have passed $100 billion — totaling $107.5 billion in 2018, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Internet Advertising Revenue Report.
The network has established a Star Trek global franchise group that will “manage and maximize the expansion of the brand beyond the traditional boundaries of linear broadcasting and streaming,” with the goal of broadening the Star Trek fan community through multiple avenues such as as podcasts, new digital spaces and live experiential events. Leading the unit will be EVP Veronica Hart.
Jessell | Forget Tribune. Sinclair Keeps Moving Forward
There may be a big silver lining to Sinclair’s loss of its proposed merger with Tribune. In its wake the group has shifted its strategy from TV station acquisition to nonbroadcast ventures like regional sports networks, OTT services and possibly some kind of national news service. And it’s continuing to lead the way toward ATSC 3.0, which it is convinced will multiply the value of broadcast spots through targeting, and enable lucrative new businesses like datacasting.
President Trump on Friday lamented social media “getting worse” for conservatives, writing that he was “continuing to monitor” alleged censorship on online platforms.
TVNewsCheck’s MediaJobCenter was busy last week. Jobs were posted by 5 different broadcast companies, some well-known like Cox and Meredith, and some by lesser known media companies like Lockwood, Waypoint and Morgan Murphy.
The likes of NBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, USA Network, Bravo, E! and CNBC Prime will give viewers the chance to buy products by holding their mobile phones to the screen during “on-air shoppable moments.”
This week’s NewFronts saw TV companies getting more serious about selling their digital inventory and setting the stage for a battle between advertisers’ TV and digital video budgets. The event also saw publishers like Conde Nast and Vice Media talking up their own TV studios.
Speaking Thursday at YouTube’s Brandcast event during the NewFronts, CEO Susan Wojcicki said that the service’s fastest growing screen is the one in the living room, with people watching more than 250 hours of YouTube per day on TV screens.
Decried as censorship by several of those who got the ax, including Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other extremists, the move signals a renewed effort by the social media giant to remove people and groups promoting objectionable material such as hate, racism and anti-Semitism.
Locast, the free over-the-air broadcast TV streaming service, said it has added iPad, Apple TV and Android TV to the devices/platforms on which it is now available. That is in addition to Apple iOS, Android, Roku and Hopper, as well as various browser platforms. Locast, which launched last year, does not have to get a TV station’s permission.
It’s also rolling out its own audience measurement and new blacklist policy.
Sky and NBCUniversal today announced the global expansion of CFlight, with Sky adopting the next-generation metric across all of Sky Media’s content and platforms. CFlight is a unified advertising metric […]
The 13-game package will stream on the MLB channel on YouTube platforms globally. The games will include pre- and post-game shows, and will be produced by MLB Network.
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.
A pair of veterans of the OTT platform Roku are launching a new advertising network, focusing on connected TV. The new company, called Tetra TV, will pool video inventory from more than 100 streaming video channels. Advertisers will be able to buy inventory across platforms, with Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, Playstation and Xbox on board as partners.
Google’s 1Q advertising revenue, its key moneymaker, grew by 15% to $30.7 billion — slower than investors had hoped. Its digital-ad rivals Facebook and Amazon, meanwhile, both reported strong earnings last week, adding to the investor surprise when Alphabet stumbled despite a strong economy.
The future of wireless technology holds the promise of total connectivity. But it will also be especially susceptible to cyberattacks and surveillance.
