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Missed. Reporter rainy says smith and six other bart officers with the sheriffs deputy went to the dublin apartment on a probation search to recover a laptop andthandth other property that 20yearold John Henry Lee stole during a bart station robbery last week. Police arrested lee last thursday after chasing the suspect who they say was driving a car that had been reported stolen from another bart station. If they knew that John Henry Lee was in custody, and thats always a possibility that somebo...

2024 is the ultimate election year. A total of 91 countries-including the U.S., the U.K., India, and 27 European Union nations-will hold elections. In this context, its no surprise to witness platforms and news outlets finessing their FAST channel strategy. The BBC News FAST channel launch was perfectly timed in that regard. BBC News is now available as a FAST channel on platforms like Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, Xumo Play, VIZIO, and more.

Questions abound about ATSC 3.0, aka NextGen TV: Is it OTA? Is it OTT? Is it CTV? Can my TV play it? Is it coming for streaming with its promise of new lean-forward, interactive consumer experiences and addressable advertising? Where does it overlap with OTT and FAST, and what does it offer viewers that they arent getting from OTA TV now? ATSC President Madeleine Noland, E.W. Scripps VP Strategy Kerry Oslund, Sinclair CIO Scott Ehrlich, and Dillon Media Ventures Rob Dillon explore these question...

A young swimmer has disappeared in the Russian River, authorities said, prompting a massive search that continued into Friday. 

From the early days of FAST, the agility and strategic innovation that are hallmarks of startups and niche content companies have been critical to success in the FAST world. As the Independent Streaming Alliance (ISA) emerges to heighten the advocacy of niche FAST providers, ESHAPs Evan Shapiro, TMBs Cameron Saless, and Gusto TVs Chris Knight discusses how the FAST market began and has matured around nimble startups in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.

With streaming demonstrating time and again that there are riches in the niches and the advantages of developing the agility to pinpoint narrower markets and superserve them with targeted content, how can broadcasters benefit from learning to think like streamers, and what strategies can they adopt to leverage that thinking? USA Today/Gannetts Michael Nagle, Paramounts Corey Smith, Boston 25 News Ben Ratner, Agile Contents Jonah Bolin, Straight Arrow News Rob Dillon, and Manatts Eric Bergner off...

Data often gets ignored, but cultivating and managing the right data will make your monetization strategy that much more successful. Think of data as the required foundation to build on. Missing data makes that foundation unstable and more likely to fail.

Streaming localization is not just about delivering content to multiple regions; its about opening up the world, according to Peacock TV VP, Products Quincy Olatunde, who explains why he believes streaming localization is so critically important in this clip from his Streaming Media Connect 2023 keynote conversation with Media Universe Cartographer Evan Shapiro.

Are media and entertainment executives listening to the wrong people, and not bringing younger and more diverse voices into the conversation, and is it holding the industry back? While valuing the expertise of boardroom inner circles, are there ways to expand the table to encourage more forward-looking thinking? Peacock TV VP Quincy Olatunde and Media Industry Cartographer Evan Shapiro debate these issues in this clip from their keynote at Streaming Media Connect 2023.

As tributes continue to pour in for Sinéad O'Connor, we're revisiting one of our earliest interviews with the Irish music icon...