WBNS Kicks Off Year Long Project During Superbowl

Columbus' television news operations typically focus on what has happened in central Ohio in the preceding hours, minutes and, in some cases, seconds.

WBNS-TV (Channel 10) says it's going to look forward, too -- way forward.

The station, which is owned by The Dispatch's parent company, has announced that it will explore the region's future in a yearlong multimedia initiative dubbed Central Ohio 2015, A Community Visioning Project.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2010/02/07/Vision_2015.ART_ART_02-07-10_D1_8JGGJ5F.html?sid=101

View WDTN.com Promo Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZssi7vzUI&feature=channel

Big Mistake on WBKI Facebook Page?

Just figured out why Dan Spangler was really canned from WBKI.

This:

http://thevillevoice.com/2010/01/22/why-didnt-dan-spangler-do-this/

CBS Mobile Launches IPhone App for Affiliates

CBS Mobile has rolled out a standalone iPhone news app for 13 local markets. The free application for iPhones and iPod Touch delivers local news, slide shows, on-demand video and Twitter updates from anchors.

“The CBS Television Stations applications are a logical extension of our CBS News app; they give us the chance to engage users at a grassroots level and expose them to the news that matters to them the most,” said Rob Gelick, senior vice president and general manager of CBS Mobile. The division partnered with Treemo Labs to create the application and Transpera to power pre-roll video and ad capabilities.

http://www.televisionbroadcast.com/article/93440

A Discussion of Social Media on WXIX

Dave Hatter from Libertas Technologies on Fox 19 (WXIX) discussing social networking / social media – 090522

http://socialmedia123.com/?p=75

Job Hunting on Social Media

The job prospects are supposed to improve in 2010. WXIX does a feature on finding employment through social media networks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXhuhEASixU

Courier Journal Nominated for Online Journalism Awards

Copy and paste the link to see the great feature presentation the Courier Journal did on horse racing.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=EXTRAS03&template=fullpage

Blogger Says WLEX Turned News Site into a Blog

WLEX-TV in Lexington, Kentucky, an NBC affiliate, has turned its news site into a blog. It actually contains news produced independently of what goes out on broadcast. Very very interesting. It’s a different way of slicing the news, with much debt to Dave Winer’s river of news idea, and it’ll be fascinating to see how and in what ways it’s useful and how it changes our idea of what news should be.

http://cms.sys-con.com/node/1121709

WLWT.com's Crazy Animal Stories

WLWT.com featured some interesting animal stories this past week. Some of the animals had unique skills, the others managed to grab headlines in a different way.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/20992558/detail.html

MultiMedia Staff Roles Change at WCMH

Media General's NBC affiliate WCMH Columbus, Ohio (DMA 32), is changing the roles of two managers.
Ike Walker has been named director of digital journalism for the station and its Web site, nbc4i.com. Walker joined WCMH as content brand manager in 2008 overseeing the staff and operations of the content department. In his new role, Walker will lead the effort to create and disseminate local digital journalism content across multiple distribution platforms.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2009/09/18/daily.7/

YourCity.MD Announces 2 Year Partnership with WLEX

YourCity.MD today announced a two-year partnership with Cordillera Communications' WLEX, the NBC affiliate in Lexington, Ky. (DMA 63).
This agreement allows WLEX to use the YourCity.MD geo-targeted, city health care platform www.Lexington.MD, which lets the station provide local health resources, providers and facilities with the inclusion of formalized patient word-of-mouth testimonials and ratings.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2009/09/10/daily.3/

Why One Viewer Rethought Cutting the Cable Cord

Over the past few years I have written several columns about the impending death of cable in the face of Internet-distributed content.
With the rise of the iTunes Store, Netflix Instant Streaming and Hulu as distribution systems for television and movies, cable should be scared.
Being the cutting edge technology columnist that I am, I thought it was time that I eat my own dog food, cut the cable and adopt these Internet services as my primary means of television consumption. So three months ago I unplugged my TiVo and returned my CableCards to my cable provider with the confidence that I could replace their service with the Internet.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2009/sep/11/cutting-cable-experiment-works-until-its-time-to/

KYPost.com Wins 11 SPJ Awards

Local journalists came together Thursday night to celebrate the best of the best in their field at the Cincinnati Pro Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists’ 2009 Awards Banquet.
KyPost.com’s web content producer/reporter Jessica Noll received 11 awards in total for her reporting, photography and headline-writing work in 2008.
http://www.kypost.com/content/news/859/story/KyPost-com-Takes-Home-11-SPJ-Awards/sdDrCJsq1kmRoYHa1FBoDg.cspx

WOSU Goes Inside the Lives of Stefanie Spielman and Archie Griffin

Archie Griffin and Stephanie Spielman talk about paying it forward
Archie Griffin and Stephanie Spielman talk about paying it forward. This video was produced for Eye on Alumni, a studio-based interview show featuring some of Ohio State's most prominent alumnus.

YouTube Signs Deal with Time Warner for Popular Programs

YouTube has signed a deal with Time Warner Inc to feature program clips from a range of its cable networks, including CNN, Cartoon Network and TNT, the online video site said on Wednesday.
The move is the latest by the Google Inc-owned video service to increase the range of video clips through which it can sell advertising as it tries to improve its chances of becoming profitable in the near term.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wkyu/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1544562/Arts..and..Culture/YouTube.signs.deal.to.feature.Time.Warner.cable.shows

WXIX Connects Viewers Directly to its' Newscast

Raycom Fox affiliate WXIX Cincinnati (DMA 34) has established an online franchise connecting viewers directly to its Fox19 Ten o'clock News.
Fox19 Live Chat allows audience members to discuss the news of the day live with anchors Tricia Macke and Dan Carroll during the broadcast.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2009/07/24/daily.4/

WOUB to Participate in PBS Digital Learning Library

Ohio University's WOUB, which provides radio and television public broadcasting services to the region, is one of 12 initial Public Broadcasting Service stations participating in the PBS Digital Learning Library.

The online library will consist of video, audio, images, games and interactive simulations for use in pre K-12 classrooms, but it also will be free to the public. Officials expect the library will open in late fall or early winter.

http://www.woub.org/about/index.php?page=47&item=1715

Criticism of WEHT Promos Sparks Lively Online Debate

Last Friday, I posted an entry about WEHT's new station promos, and my feelings about them.If nothing else, it's certainly sparked a lively discussion, based on the comments that have been posted since then. Earl Waitman, whose job it is to make the promos for WEHT, had this to say:

There was a time in TV when all stations took shots at each other. Almost all competitors in every line of work invite direct comparison. If you are proud of your product you have nothing to fear. These promos do nothing more than invite the viewer to make a direct comparison between the tv newscasts and not be brainwashed into watching a certain station's news. If this wish of free will and independent thought is somehow disturbing to you, I would suggest that you are completely missing the point of WEHT's promos.

http://jakesdtvblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/weht-promos-revisited.html

The Truth About Teen TV Viewing According to Nielsen

Nielsen is taking on the panic in traditional media that teens are too busy "texting, Twittering or LOL-ing" to pick up a newspaper or flip on the TV.

Nielsen's June 2009 How Teens Use Media report, presented today by Nic Covey, director of insights for the Nielsen Company, at the annual What Teens Want conference at the Time & Life Building in New York, states that American teens actually watch more TV than they ever have (with a 6 percent increase during the past five years) and spend half as much time browsing the Internet than the rest of America. That's only 11 hours and 32 minutes a month!

http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/nielsen-teens-are-all-web-and-no-tv-lies

Time Warner and Comcast Partner for TV Everywhere

Time Warner and Comcast are pushing ahead with a plan to make big cable network shows available online to existing cable subscribers shortly after their first airing.

The industry giants unveiled Wednesday a set of guiding principles for what TW has dubbed TV Everywhere and announced a national technical trial of what Comcast will name its On Demand Online service starting with 5,000 customers in July.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i048f01beefa084a34d4077f22aec2576