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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Room for local TV news in social media

Michael Malone of Broadcasting and Cable writes about a new study from Crawford Johnson and Northcott that says it is time for local TV to embrace social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook:


In a series of online focus groups, young adults across the country indicated a strong interest in local information and said they would welcome the availability of that information on their turf - social networking sites. Further, they said that a local television station would make an impression with them if it had a presence on those sites.
“They may not be loyal local television news viewers today, but they are certainly local information seekers,” said John Altenbern, CJ&N president. READ THE REST

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