46 Million Words Today – For Free!
Don’t look back… The Heart Corporation announced today that it was going to sell or close the San Francisco Chronicle. This means that San Francisco could lose its largest and most powerful newspaper. The Chronicle lost $50 million last...
Read moreOnly Yesterday
In 1981, KRON4 (of all people) ran the story embedded above. It was about a radical new experiment. A newspaper in San Francisco was putting its newspaper online.
Read moreThe Handwriting on the Wall
Watch this…. Mark Antonitis, President and GM for KRON4 in San Francisco and VJ Pioneer writes to me to tell me about the new Panasonic HDV camera: I just took around the new Panasonic AVCHD camera for a tour...
Read moreTHE TRUTH ABOUT KRON
The KRON Newsroom – more like a newsroom, less like The Office. There is no question that Young Broadcasting has had its share of woes. After paying far too much for KRON, and then suffering a war with GE...
Read moreKRON goes on the Block
Young Broadcasting announced today that is putting KRON, its San Francisco station up for sale. KRON was one of three stations we took into the full-blown VJ model in 2004/5. The people at KRON undertook an enormous amount of...
Read moreKRON – Two Years Later
works like a newspaper… but in video…. Two years ago this week we started the conversion of KRON4 in San Francisco to the VJ model.
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