It’s always challenging get the conversation rolling in a new discussion forum, so please help us out on The Circuit, Lost Remote’s new forum for media/technology folks who want to vent, share ideas or ask questions to the group. There are three ongoing discussions:
– Journalists and their political Facebook groups
– Two-person local TV teams are ‘dead’
– Are you an angry web producer?
In that last thread, Rob made a terrific point about one of the biggest hurdles for innovation success in local TV today: “There’s a core issue right there in my experience: Revenue drives innovation. If the revenue isn’t there, you’re not getting that new widget, platform, hardware or tool. The expectation for the web in my general experience is that an immediate ROI is expected and if the up-front cost is too high to generate a nearly instantaneous ROI then you don’t move forward.” Absolutely right.