Once thought to be a novelty, 24/7 delivery of local news video to OTT (over-the-top) devices like Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV, has bec… Read more
MOLINE, IL — Oct. 11, 2018 — The Cowles Company, owner and operator of broadcast stations in the Washington and Montana markets, has selected … Read more
When local events happen—from public forums to sporting events to live music—your community looks to you for quality coverage. At our October … Read more
MOLINE, IL — Sep. 13, 2018 — Marc Wilson, founder of TownNews, will step down as executive chairman and become chairman emeritus, effective Oct. 1. Read more
At our September customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of product management at TownNews.com, introduced the all-new Promo Designer bl… Read more
The TownNews.com iQ program utilizes the industry-leading ad server, Google Ad Manager 360 (formerly DFP). This powerful ad server offers cent… Read more
MOLINE, IL – Meredith Corporation's Local Media Group has signed with TownNews.com for the content and video management of 17 television stations. Meredith's television group, based in Des Moines, IA, reaches more than 11 percent of U.S. households, with seven stations in the nation's Top 25 markets—including Atlanta, Phoenix, St. Louis and Portland—and 13 in the Top 50. Read more
Just in time for football season, kick off ultra-engaging sports challenges—complete with scores, news, user-managed leagues, and expert picks… Read more
Software & service updates
We are excited to announce several new upgrades to the popular BLOX Go mobile interface.
In this major release of BLOX Core, we are making several upgrades to the BLOX Go mobile int…
In this release we are making infrastructure changes that should not be noticeable to admin or front-end users. If you experience any issues or have any questions, please contact customer support at (800) 293-9576 or TownNews.com/support.
In this release we are making infrastructure changes that should not be noticeable to admin …
In this Field59 software release, we are adding new functionality to keywords, the player, a…
In order to further protect the privacy of site users, TownNews will be removing several use…
In this latest Flex Templates release, we are removing user interests from user profile page…
TownNews receives updated business data from Acxiom on a quarterly basis. These updates ensu…
In this release we are making infrastructure changes in the following circulation integratio…
TownNews is now requiring all BLOX Forms to use Google CAPTCHA. (FORM-564)
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From social media to over-the-top (OTT), everyone is talking about video. At our May customer webinar, Susan Bell, senior product manager of B…
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We are working on adding new "social override" fields to allow customization of these meta tags at an asset by asset level. The fields would include:
I think a nice feature would be a custom option within a block to schedule it for certain times.
Text to audio. Is there a tool we can use with our site that would "speak" our text articles? I've seen this on other news sites. And I am abl…
Instead of URLs picking up an asset's title then generating new URLs when titles are changed, could we consider an SEO title field where an ed…
Following up on Rob Weir's question, but with a Facebook focus. A Wordpress plug in was just announced making it easy for all publishers to ac…
I would like to request an infinite scroll feature. When you get to the bottom of one story the next story published in chronological order sh…
I figured I'd post this here before I sent in a ticket. Has anyone ever experienced the Facebook comment count being incorrect in a summary block?
The Town News system already displays comment counts in both the Facebook code and the Town News comment counter. This feature should be exten…