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"Broadcast Wars" Twin Cities PBS original program — Twin Cities PBS To Air ‘Broadcast Wars’ Doc Covers the rivalries between Minneapolis-St. Paul local broadcasters from the 1960s through the 1980s

As part of an effort to make weather coverage more engaging, CBS owned stations in San Francisco developed an AR/VR platform that shows its meteorologist immersed in the city's famous fog. — CBS Owned Stations Go Virtual To Reinvent News An innovative AR/VR platform developed by KPIX-KPYX in San Francisco has since been rolled out to five stations and the CBS News 24/7 streaming service

LG's News Hub with local news — LG Channels Adds Local Stations to Free Streaming Lineup ‘News Hub’ provides access to coverage from Allen Media Group's Local Now, E.W. Scripps, Fox Television Stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group and more

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The Roku Channel Adds Local News From 8 NBCU Stations

By George Winslow published 28 June 22

It is the first time that local news programming will be available for streaming audiences on The Roku Channel

Nexstar to Expand Local News Operations, Launch DC News Now

By George Winslow published 25 May 22

WDVM-TV and WDCW-TV will occupy a new state of the art newsroom and studio; combined operation will offer 67+ hours of local news and be known as “DC News Now”

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Tegna Stations to Debut New Local Streaming Apps and Channels

By George Winslow published 3 May 22

11Alive+ in Atlanta and WTHR13+ in Indianapolis are already piloting their new apps with additional Tegna stations set to launch apps in Q2 2022

Business

NBC Bay Area Embraces Streaming to Expand Investigative News Programming

By George Winslow published 15 April 22

The newest digital investigative series `Saving San Francisco’ explores the city’s problems of homelessness, poverty, crime and mental health

Spectrum Network to Launch National News Coverage on its Local Networks and Platforms

By Tom Butts published 18 March 22

Spectrum News NY1 veteran journalist Annika Pergament tapped as national news anchor

Business

NewsON Launches on Samsung TVs

By George Winslow published 19 January 22

The NewsON app provides viewers with access to local news content from nearly 200 local TV stations in over 100 U.S. markets

Business

CBS Stations Announces Plans for a Local News Innovation Lab

By George Winslow last updated 12 January 22

The new effort will be based in Dallas-Fort Worth and includes plans to produce multiplatform newscasts for several of the company’s CW, independent and MyNetwork TV-affiliated stations

Business

VUit: Weather Drives Out-Of-Market Viewers To Local Streaming Newscasts

By George Winslow last updated 14 December 21

New end of year data from VUit offers new data on the content that drives streaming audiences to local newscasts and the most successful streaming newscasts on its platform

Business

CBS Plans to Build a Full-Scale News Operation at WWJ-TV in Detroit

By George Winslow published 14 December 21

At launch in 2022 will offer 137 hours of news per week on streaming and 40 hours of news to be simulcast on CBS 62

Blackbird, TownNews Expand to 80 U.S. TV Stations

By George Winslow published 3 December 21

The cloud-based Blackbird editing platform is now used in stations spanning 35 states

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