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A Plan for a New National TV Programming Service Dedicated to News

Mario500 said:
There is more to the part of the article with the sentence quoted by TheBigA:

"- and insert 5 minutes of entirely local news at the end of every half hour. For viewers in areas whose affiliates opt not to insert their own, hyperlocal news cut-ins, LNN will offer a look at regionally localized news headlines at the end of each half hour instead. It's our way of providing a look at stories that may be relevant to a specific state, but may not get the attention they deserve."
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So 10 minutes of headlines per hour now equates to local news...My god I am old. Now I get why elders always talk about "The Old Days" and how things used to be.
 
The concept is good. The financial backing is a joke. However, if someone with mega money could get behind this, it would be a good idea. Similar to what the BBC does with certain channels on their system. Provide objective news with an intelligent perspective and offer all sides of the political ramificiations. Surely, this is not difficult to figure out.
 
mapman1071 said:
This Was the format that CNN Headline News Used before they became HN/CNN 2
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Their format was more-or-less the TV version of "Give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world." In the Turner days, it ran on a budget. I was a bit of a night-owl in those days, and would sometime tune in Headline News at 2:00 or 3:00 AM. I noticed that the anchor had a small device on the desk that looked something like an old circular card rolodex, that she would manipulate every so often. I asked around (this was before the internet), and somebody explained that the anchor was controlling the cameras and could start the various taped segments herself, because there was no camera operator on duty during graveyard, and perhaps nobody in the control room either.
 
LKellerIII said:
Their format was more-or-less the TV version of "Give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world." In the Turner days, it ran on a budget. I was a bit of a night-owl in those days, and would sometime tune in Headline News at 2:00 or 3:00 AM. I noticed that the anchor had a small device on the desk that looked something like an old circular card rolodex, that she would manipulate every so often. I asked around (this was before the internet), and somebody explained that the anchor was controlling the cameras and could start the various taped segments herself, because there was no camera operator on duty during graveyard, and perhaps nobody in the control room either.
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Well today CBSN and Newsy has filled that void that HLN left behind for national news and to a certain extent Al-Jazeera and BBC World has done for international stories. I'm not sure how LNN is going to explain this one though. I'm not saying its a bad idea but the audience size has to be a factor here.
 
Mario500 said:
I like this plan. It hope it becomes successful.

"LNN - A News Channel without Pundits, Panels, or Shout Shows"
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I hope it becomes successful, too. But I still hope Michael Anthony brings me a check for a million bucks from John Beresford Tipton. (reference to a very old TV show...God, I'm old). The 24/7 news stations have gone to pundits and talk ("shout") shows for a reason. They're cheaper to produce than constant news, AND they get higher ratings than constantly repeating the same few stories over and over. Cable news is at its best when there's a huge breaking story like the Las Vegas murders, Hurricane Katrina, wildfires, national elections, and that's when people watch the most. But how often does that happen? Maybe 2 dozen days a year, if that.
 
So the good news is that in the two weeks since this thread was started, they've doubled the amount pledged. The bad news is it only totals $6700. Not very good if you're looking to start a national TV service. They have one month to reach their $100K goal.
 
KeithE4 said:
For one thing, AFAIK, CBS isn't offering CBSN to its affiliates to air on a secondary channel.
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No because CBSN is the ESPN3 of news but many CBS affililiates have their own links to CBSN setup on their websites though

As for Newsy, , I'm not sure what it is as Dish offers it on its Sling TV service while many stations across the country offer it as a 24/7 alternative on their online streams to either looping the latest newscast or cutting the stream al5ogether (The Scripps stations even offer it on their Roku channel apps)
 
Matt Galvin said:
They have channels in Michigan and Nebraska. Want to expand building. Ticker on bottom for local News. CBSSN should be offered to local stations but some of CBS stations might be owned by Scripps so might be getting Newsy as a secondary channel.
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CBSSN is really CBS Sports Network (Which should be offered up to CBS affiliates as a sports diginet as opposed to just a cable/satellite channel IMO)
 
Fakeem said:
If it's national, why is it called the "Local News Network"?
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Because their plan is to draw stories from local affiliates ?? Makes sense to me.....

But ONLY if they offer apps & Smart TV player channels (AKA Roku, Amazon Fire, etc.) too COMPLETE with live streaming video (This would make it a competitor to NewsOn)
 
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?708982-New-24-7-news-diginet-to-launch

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/mobile/index/article/id/112114

Here is an Update on that LNN is proposed to be Newsnet according to this link and WMNN-LD Cadillac Is the Flagship Station for Newsnet.

https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?708982-New-24-7-news-diginet-to-launch

http://www.minews26.com/content/

http://yournewsnet.com/

Apparently News Net will happen later in 2018.

Note I do not see top 20 TV DMA's like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Washington DC airing NewsNet though. In cases like Los Angeles they have to deal with Charter News and in NYC they would have to deal with NY1 and News 12 though.
http://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/public factsheets/tv/2017-18 TV DMA Ranks.pdf

According to Nielsen Newsnet which is based in Traverse City-Cadillac is ranked DMA 118. In other words NewsNet 's audience they have in mind is smaller DMA's and the objective to to be like CBSN for Local News in small markets.
 
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/sh...s-OTT-App-InvestigateTV&p=6209443#post6209443

Now Raycom has responded and decided to release a website and app feed for Investigate TV for national audiences.

Yes now Raycom has released a national news outlet that competes against the News Net, Sinclair's (Circa and a rumored network) and Scripps newsy.

If News Net is really going to Survive its going to have to put itself on sale and companies like Hearst Television, Tegna, Nexstar, Meredith and Gray are all going to have to fight over this news operation.
 
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