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KTCK and The Dallas Morning News

txchipk

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Those two will share content:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/120809dnspoticket.331b4584a.html

Strange times in the "old media" world...WPTV 5, the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, announced this week it will eliminate its sports department and rely on the local ESPN radio affiliate, WEFL 760, to provide content (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/fl-wptv-1209-20091208,0,3807631.column). WPTV has traditionally been that market's dominant station. CBS affiliates in Kansas City and Atlanta have done or are in the process of doing the same thing of out-sourcing their sports to a local sports radio station.
 
......and now employees with the station and the newspaper hold their breath waiting for announcements of efficency and downsizing to eliminate duplication and increase product output. In other words........"more with less".
I sincerely hope my prediction is incorrect.
 
Texas Gentleman said:
......and now employees with the station and the newspaper hold their breath waiting for announcements of efficency and downsizing to eliminate duplication and increase product output. In other words........"more with less".
I sincerely hope my prediction is incorrect.
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Actually, if you bother to read the press release on this, you'd find it's more about "cross-promotion" and probably not about cost cutting.

The way I see this, in response to ESPN Dallas's website roll out, and their in-house publicity organ of ESPN radio, KTCK and DMN have teamed up to fight that. For example, while ESPN dallas.com is promoting an 'exclusive' from Calvin Watkins on their website, and having Calvin on their radio station to talk about it, etc, The Ticket and the News can counter with their columnists, etc.

So The Morning News gets an outlet to promote their website (on the highest rated sports station in town), and the Ticket gets exposure on the dominant Newspaper in town, on their website, etc.

This could be a win win. Both big dogs get better exposure- the DMN gets radio exposure without paying for it, the Ticket gets newspaper publicity without paying for it. Very much a win-win.

And the only loser may be 105.3 The Fan. They lose the chance to have any DMN columnists/reporters, etc on (the linked press release talks about exclusvity). The lead dog at the Startlegram (Galloway) is already on KESN, so the Fan is stuck with either 2nd rate FWST reporters or Dallas Observer bloggers. And we already see what a draw Richie Whitt is (15th in the demo???) so I'm guessing that Robert Wilonsky won't be sharing his encyclopedic sports knowledge on the Fan anytime soon...
 
So now how does that affect the content sharing agreement with the Morning News and Star Telegram.
 
little1 said:
Texas Gentleman said:
......and now employees with the station and the newspaper hold their breath waiting for announcements of efficency and downsizing to eliminate duplication and increase product output. In other words........"more with less".
I sincerely hope my prediction is incorrect.
Click to expand...

Actually, if you bother to read the press release on this, you'd find it's more about "cross-promotion" and probably not about cost cutting.

The way I see this, in response to ESPN Dallas's website roll out, and their in-house publicity organ of ESPN radio, KTCK and DMN have teamed up to fight that. For example, while ESPN dallas.com is promoting an 'exclusive' from Calvin Watkins on their website, and having Calvin on their radio station to talk about it, etc, The Ticket and the News can counter with their columnists, etc.

So The Morning News gets an outlet to promote their website (on the highest rated sports station in town), and the Ticket gets exposure on the dominant Newspaper in town, on their website, etc.

This could be a win win. Both big dogs get better exposure- the DMN gets radio exposure without paying for it, the Ticket gets newspaper publicity without paying for it. Very much a win-win.

And the only loser may be 105.3 The Fan. They lose the chance to have any DMN columnists/reporters, etc on (the linked press release talks about exclusvity). The lead dog at the Startlegram (Galloway) is already on KESN, so the Fan is stuck with either 2nd rate FWST reporters or Dallas Observer bloggers. And we already see what a draw Richie Whitt is (15th in the demo???) so I'm guessing that Robert Wilonsky won't be sharing his encyclopedic sports knowledge on the Fan anytime soon...
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2nd rate FWST!?! I would take the Fort Worth Star-Telegram over The Dallas Morning Snooze any day!
 
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2nd rate FWST!?! I would take the Fort Worth Star-Telegram over The Dallas Morning Snooze any day!
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AGREED, Jeff!
 
little1 said:
Texas Gentleman said:
......and now employees with the station and the newspaper hold their breath waiting for announcements of efficency and downsizing to eliminate duplication and increase product output. In other words........"more with less".
I sincerely hope my prediction is incorrect.
Click to expand...

Actually, if you bother to read the press release on this, you'd find it's more about "cross-promotion" and probably not about cost cutting.

The way I see this, in response to ESPN Dallas's website roll out, and their in-house publicity organ of ESPN radio, KTCK and DMN have teamed up to fight that. For example, while ESPN dallas.com is promoting an 'exclusive' from Calvin Watkins on their website, and having Calvin on their radio station to talk about it, etc, The Ticket and the News can counter with their columnists, etc.

So The Morning News gets an outlet to promote their website (on the highest rated sports station in town), and the Ticket gets exposure on the dominant Newspaper in town, on their website, etc.

This could be a win win. Both big dogs get better exposure- the DMN gets radio exposure without paying for it, the Ticket gets newspaper publicity without paying for it. Very much a win-win.

And the only loser may be 105.3 The Fan. They lose the chance to have any DMN columnists/reporters, etc on (the linked press release talks about exclusvity). The lead dog at the Startlegram (Galloway) is already on KESN, so the Fan is stuck with either 2nd rate FWST reporters or Dallas Observer bloggers. And we already see what a draw Richie Whitt is (15th in the demo???) so I'm guessing that Robert Wilonsky won't be sharing his encyclopedic sports knowledge on the Fan anytime soon...
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I would assume at some point there will be a cbssports.com site for Dallas for KRLD-FM to pair with. CBS has already done that in Boston with http://www.cbssports.com/local/boston and their WBZ-FM 98.5 and in DC with http://www.cbssports.com/local/dc/ and WJFK-FM 106.7.

It looks like the Fox regional sports networks have also been getting new local sites lately as well (http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com).
 

2nd rate FWST!?! I would take the Fort Worth Star-Telegram over The Dallas Morning Snooze any day!
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AGREED, Jeff!
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If you guys would learn how to read, you'd have noticed that I wrote 2nd rate FWST reporters. I was talking about the level/depth of reporters, not which paper was better.

Go look at their website. Their featured columnists are Galloway (who's on ESPN) Jen Engel (a regular Galloway guest) and Gil Lebreton. (And Jim reeves, whi's retirement column from early November is still up there) So the only FWST columnist that the Fan is likely able to get on would be Lebreton. But hey, maybe they wouldn't want columnists, maybe they want the beat reporters, the guys on the scene on to talk about a hot story. Let's see, who's covering the Mavericks for the FWST? oh that's right, DMN reporter Eddie Sefko (in a 'Special to the Star Telegram" ). And who's covering the Stars for the FWST? Oh, that's right, DMN reporter Mike Heika (in another "Special to the Star Telegram")

So my point stands. if guys like Heika and Sefko are exclusive to the Ticket now, and ESPN is using their in-house bloggers/reporters, the Fan is stuck with 2nd rate reporters. Hey, Mike Wilson of the FWST may be a great guy, may really know the Rangers. Think he's got the name recognition of an Evan Grant or Gerry Fraley? Guys who've covered the Rangers for years or decades, I doubt it.
 
Somehow, I see this all ending in a very off-kilter "Norm and the Goose" buddy movie going straight to DVD staring Dennis Franz as Norm and Robert Duvall as the goose, and a Adam Sandler as Norm's cane.
 
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