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02 Jan 2006

Does anyone know of a local news outlet with an RSS feed? I added WKRN’s, but quickly removed it, as they were inundating me with random stories off the AP wire that have nothing to do with Nashville.

Why is it that local affiliate stations have to try to run with the big dogs nationally? (This is not necessarily a rhetorical question – does anyone with some media experience have a good answer for this?) When will we get some segmentation so that I can go somewhere to get actual local news, not AP wire stories re-hashed for a local audience. If I wanted national and international news, I can go to much better sources for it than WKRN. We’re quickly moving into an information age where I don’t really need a local TV station to provide me those stories – local news stations should start transforming themselves into something truly useful – an outlet that focuses on stories of local relevance with some semblance of depth.

Comments

Tom Wood — January 03, 2006 at 13:13 · reply

I admit that I have not had a chance to implement it yet myself, but we have just added an RSS feed at NashvillePost.com. Our subscription news service publishes only a few stories per day, but it’s all actual reporting on business and political stories of local interest, and we frequently beat the competition by hours.

cwage — January 03, 2006 at 13:37 · reply

Cool, I’ll check it out..

cwage — January 03, 2006 at 14:31 · reply

Hm, for-pay content, eh? I’ll have to keep an eye on it, but do you have any idea how much it’s going to cost?

Cubes — January 03, 2006 at 14:39 · reply

See if your local cable company has a news station. Around here, we have Bay News 9, run by Bright House, which covers a lot more of the local stuff than the network affiliates.

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