Posts Tagged ‘msnbc’

MSNBC.com adds @breakingnews to homepage

Following its agreement to take over the @breakingnews Twitter account, MSNBC.com has started including the tweets on its homepage under under the “Just in” tab.

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MSNBC.com page goes through ‘time warp’

Browsing MSNBC.com this afternoon brought back a sense of deja vu; one of the stories featured on the site’s main page appeared on the site’s old template for an unknown reason.

Update: MSNBC.com has fixed this and the page is now displaying on the Elkhart Project’s standard layout.

MSNBC includes deceased auto tycoon in poll data

TVNewser reports that MSNBC displayed an on-air graphic yesterday that incorrectly listed one of the candidates as “Henry Ford.” Henry Ford died in 1947 and was founder of Ford Motor Company.

The graphic should have read “Harold Ford Jr.” who, as TVNewser points out, once served as an MSNBC contributor.

MSNBC.com adds ad options to video player

MSNBC.com has added advertising preferences to some of its online video clips, giving users the option to see fewer ads or shorter ads, as shown above.

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MSNBC debuts dayside changes

MSNBC debuted its dayside changes today with the premiere of ‘The Daily Rundown’ and ‘The Dylan Ratigan Show.’

The debut brought some major changes to how MSNBC displays information to viewers. Continue reading for more caps.

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Oops at MSNBC

Via Inside Cable News

‘Ed Show’ now originating from ‘news nook’

MSNBC’s “The Ed Show,” which debuted using the main MSNBC studio, has switched to broadcasting from one of 30 Rock’s so-called “news nooks.”

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MSNBC adds social media toolbar to some stories

We noticed MSNBC.com has added a floating social media sharing toolbar to some story pages.

The toolbar provides one-click access to share content via Newsvine (an MSNBC-owned property), Facebook, Twitter and via e-mail.

MSNBC upgrades online video player

MSNBC has unveiled some upgrades and a new look to the embedding and sharing portions of its online video player.

The new tools allow users to embed video clips at different sizes and adds integrated Twitter, Facebook and Newsvine sharing tools. Users can also trim clips to custom lengths using sliders similar to those seen on Hulu.

The size options provide a good level of flexibility for bloggers and other online publishers who may require a certain size to fit their layouts.

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Election night brings changes to cable news

CNN, Fox News and MSNBC all debuted updated or tweaked graphics for Tuesday’s election.

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New CNN.com adds some clutter, emphasizes photos better

The new CNN.com rolled out over the weekend, but today seems to mark the site’s official debut.

In this incarnation, CNN has stayed on the simpler side of news site design, though this version is a bit more cluttered than the old site.

One of the most significant change is the switch to a bold read header bar with reversed CNN logo that is centered rather than left aligned like logos on many sites. This header sometimes seems a bit distracting since its visual weight is increased by the use of such a bright color across the entire page.

I’m glad to see CNN kept the “story highlights” bulleted summary of stories, though its new location on the left column is a bit hard to find at a glance.

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MSNBC uses wrong Fox logo

TVNewser reports that MSNBC’s “Hardball” used the logo of Fox Broadcasting during a “White House vs. Fox” segment Monday.

MSNBC told the blog that the logo was used in error and that it would be updated for the 7 p.m. version of “Hardball.”

TVNewser also notes that “When Bill O’Reilly references MSNBC, he generally uses the umbrella ‘NBC News’ or ‘NBC’s cable news network” description’” rather than the channel’s proper name.