Social TV AP threatens to sue aggregators, search engines By Kent Chapline on Apr. 6, 2009 - 9:02 PM Today the AP came out swinging against web sites that post its content without authorization. According to the New York Times, the AP is especially concerned about search engines and aggregators, and the fact that somebody else ...
Social TV RTNDA extends awards deadlines By Kent Chapline on Feb. 6, 2009 - 10:21 AM If you’d been planning to enter the RTNDA’s Murrow or UNITY awards competitions, they just extended the deadlines. This year they made the entry process all-digital, which is a great step. But today they say they&# ...
Social TV The CBS stations’ inauguration player in HD By Kent Chapline on Jan. 20, 2009 - 2:47 PM Here at the CBS stations we’re pretty proud of our HD inauguration player, too (see Cory’s recent post about MSNBC’s player). It has 7 user-switchable HD feeds from different angles around Washington, one of wh ...
Social TV Rival papers to share sports content By Kent Chapline on Jan. 13, 2009 - 7:24 AM The Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram say they will start trading “basic coverage” of the major league sports teams in DFW. The S-T will handle the Texas Rangers for both papers, the DMN will cover ...
Social TV Detroit papers cutting home delivery to 3 days each week By Kent Chapline on Dec. 16, 2008 - 4:47 PM Both Detroit daily papers, the Free Press and The Detroit News, say they’re making a big change come March. Â They’ll only throw the hard copy to the doorstep on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. Â They’ll still ...
Social TV Fox, NBC stations teaming up for local news By Kent Chapline on Nov. 13, 2008 - 4:13 PM TV Week reports Fox and NBC are teaming up for local news coverage. The video-sharing arrangement will start in January in Philly, where their O&Os have been testing it since the summer. Later, they’ll add their O&am ...
Social TV Ad networks already dying, as predicted By Kent Chapline on Oct. 28, 2008 - 8:59 PM Five days ago, Cory wrote about the coming death of “dozens and dozens” of ad networks, as predicted by Razorfish’s Jeff Lanctot. Here we go. (via ContentAgenda)
Social TV Big innovation at small Vegas paper By Kent Chapline on Oct. 15, 2008 - 6:41 AM Geneva Overholser over at OJR wrote a nice little post on the innovative spirit at the Las Vegas Sun, one of my favorite local sites in the country. The dead tree version of the Sun is a small paper. But the Sun’s site c ...
Social TV Murrow, 50 years ago today By Kent Chapline on Oct. 14, 2008 - 3:00 PM “This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it’s nothing but wires and lights in a ...
Social TV Rick Sanchez’s success with Twitter + TV By Kent Chapline on Oct. 6, 2008 - 9:46 AM Today’s Miami Herald has a good article about the way Rick Sanchez’s afternoon CNN show integrates Twitter/Facebook/MySpace. No doubt many of the LR faithful have watched with interest as the show has unfolded over t ...