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NBC6 goes all out, creates Digital media department

Author admin on 4/19/2006 in Local Media.

Someone anonymous sent me a press release from NBC6 on their new ‘Digital media department’. Jose Suarez, currently executive producer of the evening news, will be heading the new department, his role in which will be creating more content for NBC6.net.

I’ll reserve judgment untill I see what they have in mind, hopefully they won’t be trying to be my
local-national-world-entertainment-weather-sports-everything-else site.

PR release after the jump /excuse the formatting, it got borked by my email client/
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7’s new weather set almost complete

Author admin on 4/19/2006 in Local Media.

An insider sent a note saying 7’s new weather set is complete. It’s built as a stand up area, like the previous one, with large plasma on one side and 2 smaller monitors on the other with a counter-like surface and a computer screen for the weather anchors to use.
No info on when it will debut, but I’ll guess and say maybe next week for sweeps!

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Founder of “TV SPy” passes away

Author admin on 4/18/2006 in Media Headlines.

Don Fitzpatrick, founder of TV Spy has passed away this weekend in California, his long-time friend said. TV Spy is, somewhat, the reason why this blog exists. Before Vault bought them I used to visit a lot and thought wanted to create a local site like it, eventually ending up where FLTV is today.

B&C
TV Headhunter, Early Blogger Fitzpatrick Dies

LostRemote
Don Fitzpatrick, talent scout and ‘TV Spy’, dies

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CBS4’s online video with ads, larger size

Author admin on 4/18/2006 in Local Media.

If you go to the CBS4.com site and look at the video library they have added a tab on the upper left corner to enlarge the video you’re watching.. Smudged and blocky but better than a puny 320×240 screen. The audio can use some tweaking too, it’s like it’s coming over the phone line.

They’ve also added an option to get a direct link to the video and paste it whever, maybe in your blog. Although it would be nice if they mimic say YouTube and let you embed the video into the page itself!

Here’s a link of a UPN33 open with the graphics hodge-podge they have and will hopefully end come May.

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Coming up, NBC6 on your gas pump! Huh?

Author admin on 4/18/2006 in Local Media.

NBC O&O’s are set to begin delivering local news, weather, sports and entertainment to on-pump gas screens across the US. Only where NBC owns stations.

The program will be 3 minutes long, starting when the gas pump nosle is lifted which means you can’t shut them up unless you start pumping. That or turn up your car stereo. The technology will be provided by some company called VST, which has only 17 monitors in LA at Shell Stations and plans to add 500 more this year. Miami/Ft. Lauderdale isn’t mentioned but I guess we’re not high on the list yet

WTVJ is an NBC owned-and-operated station and their viewing area will get those monitors.

News on gas pumps? Who needs that?

B&C /via LostRemote/
NBC Offers Gas-Pumping Entertainment

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Caution! Wet … design

Author admin on 4/15/2006 in Site News and Comments.

I’ll be tinkering with the design this weekend, if anything looks broken it’s probably because I broke it and don’t know how to fix it. But If all goes well Comment RSS will be back

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Changes at WPLG

Author admin on 4/14/2006 in Local Media.

Tipster says Matt Lorch has been moved to weekends and will now anchor the weekend newscasts at 6pm and 11pm! Untill now Matt was co-anchoring with Laurie Jennings the 5:30p weekday newscast on WPLG, and also filled-in for Dwight Lauderdale whe he wasn’t there.

Interesting move on 10’s part considering many thought Matt Lorch was being groomed to eventually take over Dwight Lauderdale’s place.

Also, Megan Glaros is temporarily going national. She will be going to Good Morning America to anchor the weekend show for a couple weeks

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Dolphins unveils largest stadium 720p screen

Author admin on 4/11/2006 in Local Media.

This is so badass. The Dolphins have gone HD with the world’s largest HDTV stadium screen. How big is it? 1750 inches.
Here’s a video of it from someone who saw it in person

Dolphin Stadium HDTV (world’s largest) unveiled

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ABC will stream primetime shows online

Author admin on 4/10/2006 in Local Media.

Ground breaking announcement from ABC today. They will be streaming their primetime programming on the web completely free, with just three one minute commercial breaks. The kicker is the episodes will be archived so eventually the whole season will be available on the web and viewers will choose which sponsor’s ads they want to see during ad breaks!

And affiliates? Well they’ll just have to fend for themselves because so far it looks like they will get no piece of the action. Obviously it won’t hit the local affiliates immediately, but eventually and if they’re not ready I believe we’ll see some major hurting. Especially considering less people are watching local news.

As Jeff Jarvis says in his post about the ABC announcement – “TV has finally exploded”. Boom indeed!

/via LostRemote/ – Jeff Jarvis: Exploding TV: KA-BLOOM

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New Page added with the news choppers

Author admin on 4/6/2006 in Site News and Comments.

I’ve turnd the post with the photos of the local news choppers into a permanent page you can see here. That way everyone will be able to find it more easily.

I’ll probably change it later when I get more free time to fool around with the blog. Especially since I didn’t really finish the design and everything is still using a hacked wordpress template that has bugs and other nasties that don’t agree with some of the plug-ins this blog runs on.

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