“The one conversation I do remember us having is ‘Do we really like that? Is that a word?’” Allison McGinley, news director at Graham Media Group’s WKMG in Orlando, doesn’t remember who came up with the name “Solutionaries” for the station’s experimental new digital project …
“Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan is going to space next month. Strahan, who turned 50 on Sunday, will join Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, on the Dec. 9 mission aboard the New Shepard, a spacecraft named after her father and …
The search to nail down a new currency of TV measurement is fully underway with NBCUniversal last week announcing it had more than 100 proposals in hand to create alternate measurement systems; WarnerMedia jumping into the fray with its own ideas; and industry giant Nielsen …
Email is a powerful marketing tool. And email with signatures can be a great way to add a personal touch. If you’re new to email signatures, you may be wondering what they are and why your brand needs them. And if you use corporate signatures …
The changes in the digital ecosystem over the past few years have many brands scrambled. Privacy regulations, coupled with the approaching disappearance of third-party cookies, leave businesses with fewer alternatives for customer data collection. “You’ve known this change is coming, yet delivering results was required to …
Newsroom leaders working through those changes will consider the long-term impact on news operations in a panel, News Operations in a Changed World, opening TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum conference on Dec. 14 at 9 a.m. ET presented both in-person at the New York Hilton and virtually. Fabian Westerwelle, …
BEIJING (AP) — China and the U.S. have agreed to ease restrictions on each other’s journalists amid a slight relaxation of tensions between the two sides. The official China Daily newspaper on Wednesday said the agreement was reached ahead of Tuesday’s virtual summit between Chinese leader …
On March 4, citing pandemic-related economic hardship, the Sinclair Broadcast Group laid off 5% of its workforce, including four on-air personalities from its NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, KSNV. It was only the latest in a series of newsroom purges like it. Since 2008, newsroom employment …
The 2021 edition of the Digital Life Index, compiled by digital consulting firm Publicis Sapient, confirms that customers demand seamless digital experiences from brands. It also reveals which verticals are successfully providing those experiences, and predicts a “huge downside” for those that fail. This ongoing research …
On Tuesday, Facebook published its Q3 2021 transparency reports, including reports on its most widely viewed content and community standards enforcement. The Widely Viewed Content Report shows a clear pattern in the top 20 most viewed posts and the Community Standards Enforcement Report shows that the prevalence of hate …
Broadcasters have been moving to both virtualization and cloud technology for several years as a way to standardize functionality across large station groups, achieve new efficiencies in production and master control workflows, and perhaps even save on real estate, power and maintenance costs. The COVID-19 pandemic …
“For the first time, content is not the problem.” That is an observation from a longtime friend who used to build and manage cable systems. Her point is that almost anything anyone would like to watch or hear is available — somewhere. The challenge is …
