ChicagosNewsChannel 1 Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Me and a friend did a little research. Try these links and they go to the respective tv station's website. Sing of things to come on the O&Os? http://nbcla.com/ http://nbcbayarea.com/ http://nbcsandiego.com/ http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/ http://www.nbcmiami.com/ http://www.nbcdallas.com/ http://www.nbcnewyork.com Interestingly enough one station's link doesn't work: http://www.nbcchicago.com I've heard new websites are to debut in October, but please don't hold your breath.
mbhcity 3 Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Me and a friend did a little research. Try these links and they go to the respective tv station's website. Sing of things to come on the O&Os? http://nbcla.com/ http://nbcbayarea.com/ http://nbcsandiego.com/ http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/ http://www.nbcmiami.com/ http://www.nbcdallas.com/ http://www.nbcnewyork.com Interestingly enough one station's link doesn't work: http://www.nbcchicago.com I've heard new websites are to debut in October, but please don't hold your breath. Oh no...don't tell us that NBC is preparing for a ITV style of local branding, how Thames/Carlton/LWT became ITV London. I prefer watching the Channel 4 News, not NBC LA News or News 4 New York not NBC New York News. What fun will Jeff Zucker roll out with next.....
ChicagosNewsChannel 1 Posted August 26, 2008 Author Posted August 26, 2008 Oh no...don't tell us that NBC is preparing for a ITV style of local branding That's what it looks like.
News24/7 3 Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 It does look like this indeed is the new O&O branding scheme! with the upcoming digital transition the numbers are almost worthless now. Im just glad to see that KNTV was the Leader in this new naming move!
Ntropolis 599 Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 with the upcoming digital transition the numbers are almost worthless now.! GAH! How many times do we have to repeat this? With PSIP mapping, the old familiar "analog" channel position will show up on digital tuners. Maybe NBC just bought these so if someone types in nbcnewyork.com it goes to WNBC's site. Doesn't mean much really...
ChicagosNewsChannel 1 Posted August 26, 2008 Author Posted August 26, 2008 GAH! How many times do we have to repeat this? With PSIP mapping, the old familiar "analog" will show up on digital tuners. Maybe NBC just bought these so if someone types in nbcnewyork.com it goes to WNBC's site. Doesn't mean much really... The thing is though most of these were registered this year if you do some research. The same year as the rollout of the new graphics, ect. So we will see.
Dave Lampstein 124 Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 It does look like this indeed is the new O&O branding scheme! with the upcoming digital transition the numbers are almost worthless now. Im just glad to see that KNTV was the Leader in this new naming move! So.. how are the numbers becoming useless? I'd love to know. Please explain!
Ntropolis 599 Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 If NBC did do something like nbcnewyork.com or nbcsandiego.com my guess would be they're gonna do some kind of localized NBC site a la Olympic Zone.
ChicagosNewsChannel 1 Posted August 26, 2008 Author Posted August 26, 2008 So.. how are the numbers becoming useless? I'd love to know. Please explain! They arent.
ChicagosNewsChannel 1 Posted August 26, 2008 Author Posted August 26, 2008 If NBC did do something like nbcnewyork.com or nbcsandiego.com my guess would be they're gonna do some kind of localized NBC site a la Olympic Zone. Except they re-route to the main website for the station excluding WMAQ.
btbrtq3 0 Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Interesting... I know KNBC had (but still owns and forwards) nbc4la.com and nbc4.tv. This still is interesting though- I agree that I wouldn't want to be watching NBC LA News, but the idea of the new bug that KNTV has still seems cool. Maybe it would be better if they had some sort of "half-brand"? Then again, it still seems like they just switched to KNBC.com from nbc4.tv. Any more website changes and people will surely be confused...
Ntropolis 599 Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Except they re-route to the main website for the station excluding WMAQ. If they're designing a new website, they won't have it online out in the blue like that. Instead of redirecting to "This domain was registered at GoDaddy.com" why not direct it to the station's current website for the time being?
ChicagosNewsChannel 1 Posted August 26, 2008 Author Posted August 26, 2008 If they're designing a new website, they won't have it online out in the blue like that. Instead of redirecting to "This domain was registered at GoDaddy.com" why not direct it to the station's current website? What I am saying is why direct it to the current website if it's not going to become the link for it.
Weeters 1969 Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=nbcla&tld=com Created on..............: 07-Aug-02 Expires on..............: 07-Aug-09 Record last updated on..: 04-Aug-08 Registered for the last 6 years.
ChicagosNewsChannel 1 Posted August 27, 2008 Author Posted August 27, 2008 http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=nbcchicago&tld=com nbcchicago.com Created on..............: 04-Jul-08 They just got this one. It looks like they are trying to get websites for all the O&Os.
Que 73 Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 Well, nbcdallas.com won't exactly work for the whole Dallas - Fort Worth area. It is more than just Dallas, so I doubt this is anything important.
Dave Lampstein 124 Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 A lot of stations secure domains that they will never promote for various reasons... so hoax sites can't be created or for people who are just guessing at the station's website.
rhombics447 1 Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 So basically it's like "myfox[city] .com," except it's for NBC affiliates.
jestbiteme 13 Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 exactly what I was thinking. most of you guys are overreacting. Especially Mr. Oakes, who leads the Department of Misinformation.
tyrannical bastard 4036 Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 exactly what I was thinking. most of you guys are overreacting. I just hope it sticks to the O&O's...and doesn't take over regular affiliates like the MyFox sites.
ChicagosNewsChannel 1 Posted August 27, 2008 Author Posted August 27, 2008 Especially Mr. Lampstein and jestbiteme, who lead the Ministry of Misinformation. As President and Vice President respectively. So true. Anyway, It is going to be an O&O thing. And more and more O&Os are going to start getting the location vs channel branding as we get closer to the end of the year.
ProButtonPusher 230 Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 Did I do something? yeah--you took: Especially Mr. Oakes, who leads the Department of Misinformation. and made it: Especially Mr. Lampstein and jestbiteme, who lead the Ministry of Misinformation. As President and Vice President respectively. you didn't notice? really?
ElliotJones 52 Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 Woah, there, Nate. This kid not only "works for WMAQ" as a floor director, he's also a motorman for the CTA! Bob S. - He may not be a CTA employee, but he does seem to have immediate access to someone's CTA pager. Some of the info he posts seems to comes straight from the text pages that are sent to CTA management, supervisory, and field personnel 24 hours a day. It's almost word-for-word except for the added "please allow additional travel time." He also clearly has access to CTA radio transmissions but those are easy to get with a scanner and the language on those transmissions is not usually as complete or detailed. Is it a fluke that he puts the information together the exact same way the operations texts are worded? My brother, a CTA employee , pointed that out to me when I was reading him my UPOC alerts from lazy/anchorman. His text pages from the Control Center preceded lazy/anchor's by several minutes and were worded the same. So, CTA employees with pagers, take notice. Your 15-year-old-kid is pissing off UPOC subscribers non-stop. I found it interesting that lazy/anchor was asking people to limit chatting when most of the chatting was asking him to stop. And kudos to chi-thrdrail and others for not lowering themselves to lazy/anchor's level when baited! Internets Source Machine: http://www.ctatattler.com/2008/04/weekend-cta-upd.html
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