Marvin Dillweed 74 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 The broadcast division gets a new name. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/04/21/gannett-changes-name-to-tegna/26127343/ http://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/04/21/gannett-names-it-broadcast-spinoff-tegna-for-some-reason/
trev57 46 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Am I the only one who thinks that's a terrible name? You accidentally flip the N and the G around in a Google search and you get a very different result...
channel2 982 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 No, a lot of people think it's a bad name. Like I said in the Gannett general thread, it sounds like the sort of name a scandal-ridden insurance company would adopt after their scandal blew over.
TheRolyPoly 2659 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 They should've kept Gannett as the name for Broadcasting and Digital with Tegna for Publishing because... Who will recognize Tegna? Probably nobody in the beginning.
Journalist 894 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 What kind of name is that? Rather rename the company to This Is Home, Inc. compared to this pile of crap.
Rusty Muck 4430 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Because it would be silly to reuse either the "Multimedia," "Combined" or "Pacific and Southern" names.
KevCor 344 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Because it would be silly to reuse either the "Multimedia," "Combined" or "Pacific and Southern" names. Or even Belo in this case....
Breaking News 849 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Who the f*** came up with that bogus name? I mean there many names under that company umbrella they could go by. USA Today digital news service Inc Gannett Media Holdings Inc, Gannett Television Broadcasting Gannett Services Gannett Digital Media All the stations in the company could be; WXIA-TV copyright 2015 a division of Gannett Television Anything but Tegna which sounds like a car that Toyota will debut in 2017.
tyrannical bastard 4084 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Why is the television company getting the crappy name? Conventional logic and other deals have stuck the new name on the sinking ship that is their print division. At least in the selloff of the Washington Post, the family owner name "Graham" was kept for the remaining holdings.
NEOMatrix 1308 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Hell, they could've used Sander Media. Tegna sounds like one of those ED pills.
tyrannical bastard 4084 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 If you think about it, the name "Multimedia" was way ahead of its time. They disappeared into Gannett just as the World Wide Web was creeping into our lives. Seeing as how diversified the industry has become between interactive and traditional media...it makes sense.
William1111 41 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Tegna sounds like the Sega knockoffs found on ebay and Chinese stores...
KevCor 344 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 How Gannett thinks: "Just wait until the words Tegna are plastered all over every TV station. You will assimilate"
skbl17 188 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Dumbest name ever. Sounds like a new card game from Hasbro, not a broadcast company.
Rusty Muck 4430 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Tegna sounds like one of those ED pills. Transpose the N and G in a Google search, and the results aren't that far off.
News 9 Viewer 100 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 When I heard that Tegna would be the new name, the first thing that jumped to my mind was this ad for a certain feminine hygeine product.
ToriElectra 292 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 I was thinking it was the name of a new Ford model, "Now with better fuel economy and better infotainment system!"
tyrannical bastard 4084 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 This could get interesting if they keep "It's all within reach......"
ABC 7 Denver 1743 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 This could get interesting if they keep "It's all within reach......" Only if you flip the G and N.
mardek1995 200 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Because it would be silly to reuse either the "Multimedia," "Combined" or "Pacific and Southern" names. Or even Belo in this case.... It's actually not as silly as y'all might think. Sometimes it makes sense. For example, if Hearst Corp. were to split, its digital media arm would be called "Argyle Television Holdings III" as there have already been 2 predecessor companies of Hearst by nearly the same name.
TexasTVNews 1379 Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Why can't they just called it Gannett Broadcasting Company or Gannett Media Group instead of Tegna.
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