So, I live in the US and the majority of local television news stations and reporters use Facebook as their social media pages in conjunction with an actual website for the news station information and stories. Seems to me like BBS could do both of these things on one site.
In my eyes, the BBS site template is perfectly designed to be the model platform for news outlets (minus the earning system)… It has the ability to support all the news articles and videos stations would want to post daily, the channel system is already in place to organize content by category and by reporter, reporters and anchors can have their own profiles (like Facebook), and the inter-connectivity of BBS means news stories could be linked between affiliates. Imagine connections between stories or crimes, form different locals, made by users because of the interconnectivity of BBS and it’s engagement features.
There are hundreds and hundreds of local news affiliates under each major network like ABC, CBS, and NBC in the US alone. That’s not even considering newspapers, periodicals, and cable news outlets that may want consolidated web sites and web 3 interconnectivity. I think if BBS could get a single major network to pick up the system/site template, and implement it on affiliates, it could provide all the advertising revenue that BBS is looking for to keep the user created system going indefinitely.
Also, wouldn’t it go a long way in differentiating BBS from the social media sites it resembles by having BBS (and not Facebook) deliver news outlets’ content and be their engagement site?
I’m interested to hear what people think of this idea…