Posts Tagged ‘CNN’

CNN makes graphic mistake during ‘Restoring Honor’ rally

Via Inside Cable News, looks like CNN made a few mistakes on this L3. Can you spot all three?

TVNewser writes, “If there was an award for ‘most mistakes in a single chyron,’ this would probably take first place.”

S***s and giggles at CNN

Via Gizmodo

CNN headlines contradict each other

This screen capture, taken approximately 1:26 p.m. central time, shows just how confused the news media seems to be with the Alaskan plane crash.

Inside Stephen Arnold Music’s CNN International work

In a recent release, Stephen Arnold talked about his recent work for CNN International:

”I-Desk is about immersing viewers into breaking stories,” said Stephen Arnold, President of Stephen Arnold Music. ”Since the news can come from anywhere in the world, the theme needed to have a broad reach in terms of instrumentation and orchestration. So our job for a show like ‘I-Desk,’ is to maintain an international flavor, without skewing the sound too heavily towards any one region.”

For “Inside Africa,” Arnold had to create a compelling intro using local beats that worked with CNN’s existing brand.

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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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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.

Tour of CNN’s new ‘Studio 7′ in Atlanta

The AJC has posted a tour of CNN’s new “Studio 7″ in its Atlanta HQ.

CNN may not be having a banner year in ratings, but the Atlanta headquarters now at least has spiffy new digs.

Three years in the making, the first makeover since the early 1990s gets rid of the wood trims and dated CNN signage. Instead, there’s the “magic wall” seen in the D.C. studio and a special UTouch wall, demonstrated below.

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.

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.

TV Web sites integrate new Facebook feature

Broadcasting & Cable reports that several high profile news organizations, including CNN and ESPN, have already implemented the new Facebook “social plugins” on their Web sites.

Social plugins allow third-party Web sites to integrate directly with Facebook from, in the case of TV news sites, story pages. Users can click “like” on content and that information is fed to their Facebook profile and newsfeed, as well as shared with friends.

The tool, which was unveiled Wednesday, was seen on CNN.com news stories within hours.