Newspapers still worth the bucks
Cablevision Sytems completed its purchase of Newsday yesterday, reportedly for $650 million.
In contrast, the Post-Newsweek deal to buy Miami NBC station WTVJ was only $205 million, considerably less than pre-sale estimates. WTVJ was the NBC Universal owned/operated station which built (for mega millions) a new facility a few years ago which handled feeds for many other stations.
Post-Newsweek already owns WPLG in Miami, the #1 station; WTVJ is #6. Consolidation is planned, but TVJ will stay NBC albeit at WPLG’s new facility under construction.
Wonder what Cablevision will do with Newsday?
Wouldn’t a live truck be cheaper?
Gannett just sunk $10 million into Mogulus, the live video streaming service that the Argus Leader used to capture Hilary Clinton’s campaign remarks about the RFK assassination.
If you haven’t tried it, Mogulus is a free, easy to use live broadcast web service. It works even over cell phone slow connections. (I’ve done it.) They also slurp up rights to everything you put on it.
Presumably, Gannett’s 90 dailies and 23 television stations will be using it a lot.
Mogulus blogs about the investment here.
News, News, News, Animals, Sports, and Sex
Lost Remote has a blog entry on the Newark Star Ledger’s not-yet-launched webcast.
Check out the comments at: Another newspaper launches another boring webcast.
Despite deep cuts in every budget, our paper is also going ahead with building a studio for webcasts. I have shared my serious doubts about the traffic we’ll get, but papers in general seem willing to spend money on video.
What’s working at you paper to get video traffic? In our experience, it’s news, news, news, animals, sports and sex. How about you?
(update: Ledger Live launched Monday: http://www.nj.com/ledgerlive/ )
(update 2: Jeff Jarvis likes it: I have seen the future and its in jersey
Really old news past this point
Way back in 2008 I started a community site on Ning and abandoned my Blogger site, http://newspaper-video.blogspot.com . Now Ning is cutting off the free sites so I have yet another site: NewspaperVideo.com. Just to have some content, I have imported my old Blogspot entries here – they go back to to the dark ages.
View my page on Newspaper Video
I’ve started a site where newspaper video folks can share and comment on each other’s works. Check it out!
