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NewsON
NewsON is a local news service that enables users to see live and on demand local news broadcasts and video clips from TV stations across the United States in one app. As of February 2021, NewsON includes over 275 TV stations from over 160 markets covering more than 75% of the US population. The app is available on mobile phones, tablets and connected TVs, including iPhones, iPads, Android phones A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into ele ..., Android tablets, Roku connected TV devices, Fire TV and Apple TV. NewsON also offers a web streaming site. NewsON delivers a first-of-its-kind app to view live local news broadcasts during breaking news across platforms and enabling viewers to watch the video when convenient for them. NewsON was announced on June 9, 2015, as a venture fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haystack News
Haystack News (formerly Haystack TV) is a free, ad-supported, streaming service for local, national and international news video available on Smart TVs, over-the-top platforms and mobile apps. Haystack uses data from each user—such as location, topics of interest and favorite publishers—to create a personalized playlist of short news clips. The platform also hosts live channels from local, national and international news outlets. History The company was founded in 2013 as Haystack TV by Daniel Barreto and Ish Harshawat. The two software engineers said they both found it difficult to watch news content on TV without a cable subscription and decided to create an app to fill that void. Barreto and Harshawat first launched the app in 2014 on iOS and Android mobile platforms with funding from Zorlu Ventures, the National Association of Broadcasters and Stanford’s StartX Fund. When Haystack News first launched, the app used news clips posted to YouTube as content for its p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Now
Local Now (stylized as "local now") is an American over-the-top internet television service owned by The Weather Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Entertainment Studios. A spinoff of The Weather Channel, Local Now primarily provides a cyclic playlist of weather, news, sports, entertainment and lifestyle segments, incorporating localized content through feeds geared to a user-specified area. Originally developed as a hybrid TV Everywhere service intended for subscribers of virtual multichannel video programming distributors (vMVPD), after it was acquired by Entertainment Studios in 2018, Local Now converted to a free-to-access model and has since expanded into a hybrid advertiser-supported streaming service, adding advertising video on demand (AVOD) content through digital linear channels and a selection of VOD programming supplied by Entertainment Studios, and various news providers and independent content distributors. Local Now's programming is streamed live on the network's websi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowles Company
The Cowles Company is a diversified media company in Spokane, Washington, in the US. The company owns and operates ''The Spokesman-Review'' in Spokane, founded in 1894, and owned the ''Spokane Daily Chronicle'' until it was shut down in 1992. Built by William H. Cowles, the publishing business eventually constructed striking buildings in downtown Spokane for both papers. The Chronicle Building was eventually converted into offices and then residential. The company also owned several other papers and operates Inland Empire Paper Company, television stations, and interests in real estate, insurance, marketing and financial services. William Stacey Cowles, the publisher of ''The Spokesman-Review'', is the great-grandson of the company's founder, William H. Cowles, and the fourth generation of the Cowles family to run the paper. His sister, Elizabeth A. Cowles, is chairwoman of the parent company. Rob Curley is the editor. History William H. Cowles came to Spokane at age 24 to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray Television Stations
The following is a list of stations owned or operated by Gray Television. Gray owns or operates 180 stations across 113 markets in the United States, ranging from as large as Atlanta, Georgia, to one of the smallest markets, North Platte, Nebraska. Current stations Stations are arranged alphabetically by state State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * '' Our ... and by city of license. * (**) indicates a station that was built and signed-on by Gray. Television Radio Former stations Television Radio Notes License ownership/operational agreements Mergers and acquisitions Satellites, semi-satellites and translators Sources {{Gray TV Gray Television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray Television
Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 stations across the United States in 113 markets. Its station base consists all ranges of media markets, from as large as Atlanta, to one of the smallest markets, North Platte, Nebraska. History James H. Gray started his communication business with the purchase of '' The Herald Publishing Company'' (a company founded in 1897 to promote The Albany Herald, a newspaper that started publication in 1891), in 1946 after he returned from World War II. Gray launched WALB-TV in 1954. In 1960, Gray purchased WJHG-TV in Panama City, Florida, and followed it later in the decade with KTVE serving Monroe, Louisiana and southern Arkansas. In 1986 Gray died, leaving his 50.5% share of the stock in a trust for his children with stipulation that they run the business together, sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Android (operating System)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance and commercially sponsored by Google. It was unveiled in November 2007, with the first commercial Android device, the HTC Dream, being launched in September 2008. Most versions of Android are proprietary. The core components are taken from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which is free and open-source software (FOSS) primarily licensed under the Apache License. When Android is installed on devices, the ability to modify the otherwise free and open-source software is usually restricted, either by not providing the corresponding source code or by preventing reinstallation through technical measures, thus rendering the installed version proprietary. Most Android devices ship with additio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegna Inc
Tegna Inc. (stylized in all caps as TEGNA) is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia. It was created on June 29, 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies. Tegna comprised the more profitable broadcast television and digital media divisions of the old Gannett, while Gannett's publishing interests were spun off as a "new" company that retained the Gannett name. Tegna owns or operates 66 television stations in 54 markets, and holds properties in digital media. In terms of audience reach, Tegna is the largest group owner of NBC-affiliated stations, ahead of Hearst Television and Sinclair Broadcast Group, and the fourth-largest group owner of ABC affiliates, behind Hearst, the E. W. Scripps Company, and Sinclair. Tegna also owns three digital multicast networks ( True Crime Network, Quest, and Twist). History In June 2015, Gannett spun off its broadcasting divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Murphy Media
The Evening Telegram Company, d/b/a Morgan Murphy Media, is an American television and radio company based out of Madison, Wisconsin. The company is named for publisher Morgan Murphy, who expanded the business after he took over from his grandfather, who founded the ''Superior Evening Telegram'' (now owned by Forum Communications). History The company was originally known as Morgan Murphy Stations until 2007, when its operating name was slightly changed to Morgan Murphy Media. On May 10, 2017, the company announced that it would acquire Saga Communications' television clusters in Joplin, Missouri, including KOAM-TV, and Victoria, Texas, including KAVU-TV. Saga will additionally acquire the assets of Fox affiliates in each market owned by Surtsey Media and operated by Saga under local marketing agreements, including KFJX in Joplin, Missouri and KVCT in Victoria, Texas. Those stations' license assets were acquired by SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The sale was completed September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McKinnon Broadcasting
McKinnon Broadcasting Company (doing business as Texas Television, Inc.) is a privately owned television broadcasting company based in San Diego, California. Michael Dean McKinnon Sr. is the company's majority owner, president, chief executive officer (CEO), and chairman of the board. Stations Current Former Notes: * (**) – ''indicates a station built and signed on by McKinnon''. :''This list does not include KBVO-TV (now KEYE-TV) in Austin. KBVO-TV (unrelated to the present-day station that serves Austin, but is licensed to Llano) was owned by the Austin Television Company from 1983 to 1995. Michael McKinnon was among the group of local investors who were part of the Austin Television Company.'' Other notes: * 1 McKinnon provided technical support and was a minority owner of KUSI-TV at launch; it acquired the license outright from United States International University United States International University (USIU) was a nonprofit university based in San Die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWTV
WWTV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Cadillac, Michigan, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the northern Lower and eastern Upper peninsulas of Michigan. It is owned by locally based Heritage Broadcasting Group, which provides certain services to Cadillac-licensed dual Fox/ CW+ affiliate WFQX-TV, channel 32 (and its Vanderbilt-licensed full-time satellite, WFUP, channel 45) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Cadillac Telecasting. Both stations share studios on Broadcast Way (near US 131) in Cadillac, while WWTV's transmitter is located on 130th Avenue in unincorporated Osceola County, just northeast of Tustin. Like other network affiliates serving this vast and mainly rural area, WWTV operates a full-time, full-power satellite in Sault Ste. Marie, WWUP-TV (channel 10), whose transmitter is located approximately south-southeast of Sault Ste. Marie near Goetzville in southeastern Chippewa County (on a tower shared with ABC affiliate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forum Communications
Forum Communications Company is an American multimedia and technology company headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota. With multiple online and print news brands throughout Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, Forum Communications offers local news in a variety of digital and broadcast mediums in addition to various niche media brands covering specialty interests. The company also owns four television stations in North Dakota, all affiliated with ABC. Additional offerings are commercial printing services and business services. Leadership William "Bill" Marcil, Sr. is the current chairman of the board for Forum Communications Company, who is married to the founder, Norman B. Black's great-granddaughter. Daily operations are overseen by William "Bill" Marcil, Jr. as the president and chief executive officer of Forum Communications Company as well as the publisher of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. History Forum Communications Company began publishing its flagship n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
