Archive for the ‘Cable News’ Category

CNN tops Yahoo News for top online news site

ComScore, an online metering and metrics company, has released new numbers which puts CNN.com ahead of Yahoo News in its “General News” category for the first time. During the month of May, CNN’s network of news sites saw 75 million unique vistors compared to Yahoo News’s 53 million. MSNBC ranked third with just over 50 million and CBS News ranked fifth.

ComScore recently changed its ranking system, which may have lead to the change on top.

ComScore just switched the way it measures Web media in way that favors CNN. Previously, it used the “panel method” only - it put software on volunteers’ computers to track their Web activity and extrapolated.

In May, ComScore switched to the “UDM Method,” which combines panel data with “a unique census-level data collection method.”

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NY1 News chooses Beat the Traffic

NY1 News, the Time Warner Cable owned New York City news station, recently debuted Beat the Traffic for its newscasts.

NY1 News’s new traffic reporting solution provides real time traffic flow, speed data, road conditions and point to point trip times in an easy to understand 3D animated presentation. The new system provides comprehensive coverage of highway and surface road traffic in the greater New York metropolitan area for NY1’s Rail and Road Report seen during the morning and evening rush hour.

“We are extremely pleased to expand our partnership with Timer Warner Cable in New York City, providing relief to the millions of commuters in the New York Metro area,” said Andre Gueziec, President & CEO of Triangle Software, the company that operates the Beat the Traffic® system. “This is the seventh city where Time Warner Cable has deployed our vehicle traffic reporting system, and we are delighted to work closely with their teams on creating an award-winning user experience.”

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CNBC rolls out updated newsroom studio

CNBC quietly rolled out some major studio updates with its new program additions.

The previous newsroom studio, designed by PDG, was updated with many new LED elements, a ton of monitors everywhere and new desks. Continue reading for more images and analysis. The refresh, with some entirely new components, was designed by John Casey of i.e. Design Events

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CNN turns 30

Thanks to CNNFan.org, an original ad promoting the launch of CNN 30 years ago. CNN.com also has an interactive gallery of the network’s past 30 years.

MSNBC.com rolls out slick new TV page

MSNBC.com recently launched a newly updated section for its various TV shows.

The section features a large Flash rotator with all the MSNBC show hosts. Each hour this graphic changes to the upcoming show.

The page also uses many social media tie-ins including links to various Twitter profiles and live tweets.

NBC testing ‘Nightly News Now’ for mobile devices

Via WebNewser, NBC is testing a new web update newscast called “Nightly News Now.”

The one to two minute long program recaps the day’s news in a format designed for mobile devices.

For the moment “Nightly News Now” is being tested out on the weekends, with Lester Holt anchoring. The plan is to monitor the response to the webcast, with the possibility of expanding it down the line.

MSNBC for a while has put web only video on its site, complete with an anchor intro from a news nook. We’ll see if this catches on, but at the moment it could use some more polishing.

CNN updates the Communications Center for ‘360 Friday’

Last Friday, CNN debuted “360 Friday” with an updated studio in New York City.

Located in the CNN Communications Center, the updated talk show set has many new elements added to the existing space.

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CNN’s new angle dizzying

The New York Daily News has a review on how CNN is making use of its new Atlanta studio — and it isn’t overly flattering.

“After watching for a few days, I’m certain that someone there must own stock in Dramamine,” writes the paper’s Richard Huff, referring to the network’s use of wide, sweeping shots.

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CNN ‘Studio 7′ added to SetStudio

We’ve added screencaps from the new Clickspring designed CNN Atlanta studio to SetStudio.

Watch for our complete review and actual photos soon. Thanks to CNNFan.org for the caps.

Time Warner rebrands N.Y. cable news channels

The New York Times has an article on Time Warner Cable’s moves to rebrand its local cable news channels in Albany, Syracuse and Rochester, N.Y. under a unified name — “Your News Now.”

A key force behind the name change was the fact that the stations, as they continue to fight for profitability, are increasingly sharing content, thus making a consistent name more important, especially when it comes to reporter tags.

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CNN Atlanta studio to debut today

NewscastStudio has learned that CNN is scheduled to debut its new Atlanta studio at 9 a.m. Eastern time this morning. Stay tuned for details.

Fox News launches iPhone app

Fox News Channel has finally caught up to competitors CNN and MSNBC with the launch of its iPhone app, reports Business Insider. The app, unlike CNN’s and like MSNBC’s, is free. Despite its price tag, CNN’s app remains the number one app in the news category.