Blogging and social media continue to reshape our local media landscape, as I’ve written many times before.
After belittling and being defensive about my “scoop” on an upcoming meeting to consider merging the Grass Valley and Nevada City school districts (including the mention that one meeting was held), The Union newspaper ran a big story on the unprecedented merger talks this morning (behind an online “paywall.”)
There’s a pattern here. This comes after recent “new media” scoops of American icon Willie Nelson coming to Nevada County this summer and the “mega-resort” proposal for our county being discussed — first reported on Sierra Foothills Report.
In a recent article, the Mountain Messenger pointed out: “Getting local news in a small community like this has always been a problem. There have been two traditional sources, a daily newspaper and a radio station, and, if a news event is spectacular it might be given a few seconds on Sacramento television. All that has changed.”
“Who is opening or closing a local business? Pelline will probably have it first. What was NH2020 all about, really? R. L. will tell. What’s that burning? Is the fire coming this way? Go to YubaNet to find out.
“The Union newspaper, often referred to by its critics as the “Un” paper, and the “Tea Party Gazette,” has distanced itself from its modern-day readers by putting up a paywall – making its access by Internet something like the old toll roads that once spotted this area: expensive and, it seems, something to be avoided.”
What’s interesting is that while The Union is belittling bloggers, the Sacramento Bee is collaborating with them. It is aggregating blogging content from all over the region and selling ads around them — a practice that is a growing money-maker.
A former staffer of the Nevada-based newspaper chain that owns The Union recently won a prestigious Knight Fellowship at Stanford and “will test a revenue generation system for local news websites combining advertising and social media,” as I reported the other day.
Change is at our doorstep.
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Well local media has its television news with local and world news with local police blotter with funny pictures. Grass Valley Television has been producing GVTV NEWS now for over 5 years and its on Comcast Channel 11 Mon-Fri 8:00 am, 3:30 pm and 7:30 pm and its streamed live on nevadacountytv.org and http://www.gvtv.org. We also produce many other shows that can be viewed online at http://www.grassvalleytelevision.com.
We post to facebook, youtube, blip.tv and have a free video podcast on itunes just search under “gvtv news”
We appreciate feedback as we try to provide the only visual video news media in Nevada County.
We like Jeff Pelline’ s Sierra Foothill Report for his straight forward real news and comments
Randy Hansen
Executive Producer/Anchor
Grass Valley Television
GVTV NEWS
But you can’t get GVTV on dish. What percentage of local TV’s are still hooked up to cable and what is the trend?
Chris, Appox. 10,000 households subscribe to Comcast Cable in Nevada County and you have some on Suddenlink in Alta Sierra and Truckee.
You could say 70 to 80 % of the county has some type of wifi, sattelite cellphone or dsl. Smarterbroadband using wifi towers like cell phones is the best option for people outside of town with a path to their nearest tower.
I would say the “trend” for everyone will be soon internet option for all your television, movies ect. to your tv set if you have one. With a big enough screen on your computer you can watch in HD without alot of expense.
I was on Direct TV and now I am on Smarterbroadband that covers all my needs for TV and Internet with one reasonable fee.
If you have Dish and cant see GVTV you can see it if you have any type of fast internet connection in many places ie Youtube, gvtv.org and Itunes video podcast or http://www.nevadacountytv.org that also streams all local content live from NCTV Digital Media Center.
The other alternative to SmarterBroadband is DigitalPath–these are the two (only) fixed wireless providers in western Nevada County. And you have X-Wire available if you are in eastern Nevada County.
Thanks, I’ll check it out!!