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Lynn Siprelle * Fairy Blogmother

I wasn't aware that KOIN had an internet presence?
Does KOIN know what the internet even is?

Looks to much like a word press document now with the color templetes. How about doing a website that actually matches the stations ID and graphics. I know fisher has all the sites look the same, but they had all the stations look the same with the puzzle "2" graphics from 2000 to just recently. Now they are branching out. I think its time to do the same with the sites.

But keep KATU.com navagation the same, I didnt like the old sidebar nav.

...a certain local weather person reportedly registered the logical ".com" domains for competing television stations.

Little did they know -- until the time came to start a site.

You would think some one covering TV news would have the .tv domain purchased.
Ultra maroon!

If something like this went to court, wouldn't the holder of the domain actually need to demonstrate they're doing something with katu.tv rather than just sitting on it and hoping that Fisher will cave in to the extortion?

I have no problem snapping up names if you have a legit use for them, but slimy squatters, opportunists, speculators and profiteers should be beaten with clubs.

happens all the time on the net not just for this

Unless people are trying to go to the KATU site by typing "katu.tv" and having trouble finding the real site, there's no problem with KATU owning the .com only.

Also, to the comment upthread, the web isn't TV, and there's no need to use the same graphics on both. In fact, I think a problem with station websites is that they treat their sites too much like extensions of their TV stations. For example: story selection. Before a station makes something their top story online, they should ask themselves, "Have we ever seen anyone bother to blog about a story like this?" Because the emotional story that keeps someone watching till the next commercial break on TV isn't what is going to get you linked and put in people's bookmarks online. The kid who died yesterday isn't big news online. The approval for a new neighborhood development is.

URLs are much less important these days. There are enough top level domains out there (.com, .org,.tv, etc) that most people just go to Google first so they get to the right place. Especially now that Icann is loosening restrictions on top level domains (there will soon be a lot more).

Will it make KATU look a little silly if KATU.tv gets snapped up? Maybe. But it won't mean any less traffic to the KATU site.

It's not just KATU. Wasn't there the mess a few years ago with the White House? Seems like they had .gov but didn't get .com, which, I believe, became a porn site. I never wanted to try it and see, the .gov site was interesting enough.

And see what comes up lol

We are led well.

All of the stations are starting to aggravate their sites now so there is one site per station group based on DMA coverage or region. K---.com will relink to these new sites - like nworegon.com or some such. Guess it's the new wave of the internet future. Just like President Bush said, the internets ARE serious buiness!

Tribune is either selling and/or reorganizing almost everything it owns. It's new owner is making huge cuts at its newspapers in Los Angeles and Chicago. And I'll bet some of Tribune's television stations will be up for sale, if not already.