TouchVision

TouchVision was an American digital broadcast and internetVideo on demandtelevision network that was owned by Think Televisual. The service provided rolling news coverage that was distributed to television, mobile and tablet platforms. TouchVision's operations were based in the headquarters of Weigel Broadcasting in Chicago, Illinois.

TouchVision was co-founded by former radio consultant and XM Satellite Radio executive Lee Abrams (chief content officer), Steven A. Saslow (original chief executive officer) and Brandon Davis (chief executive officer).^[1]

The service launched in beta form on July 1, 2013, on CBS affiliate WDJT-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (owned by Weigel Broadcasting) over its fourth digital subchannel,^[2] replacing a time-purchased real estate listings service that was programmed by local realtor Shorewest Realtors.^[3] The service officially launched on September 16, 2013.^[4] In early November of that year, WDJT sister station WMEU-CD in Chicago began carrying TouchVision on its second digital subchannel.

TouchVision gained its first syndicated client outside of the Weigel properties in December 2014, when WISH-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana began carrying a half-hour broadcast of the service on weekday mornings (serving as both a lead-in for WISH's local morning newscast and, as a result of the then-pending loss of its CBS affiliation to WTTV, a replacement for the CBS Morning News); the TouchVision simulcast began airing on WISH when it became a CW affiliate on January 1, 2015.^[5] Weigel's Heroes & Icons network also carried the 6 a.m. Eastern hour of programming during its "beta test" period while the schedule was tweaked for its national launch.

WDJT dropped TouchVision from its 58.4 subchannel on January 12, 2015, in advance of the soft launch of the classic television network Decades (now Catchy Comedy) (a joint venture between Weigel and CBS Television Stations) that occurred three days later, though it remained available in the Milwaukee market via sister independent stationWMLW-TV, which carried an hour-long simulcast of the service on weekday mornings.^[6]

TouchVision ended all on-air operations on January 14, 2016.^[7] Programming ceased at 11:59 PM CT on January 14, 2016.^[8] The network's YouTube channel was taken off-line voluntarily in mid-May 2016, with the rights to stories and segments reverting to the network's former contributors.

TouchVision was aimed at a demographic of young adults dubbed by the service as the "Millennials Plus" generation (those between the ages of 18 and 35), who grew up using digital technology and have long adapted to social media.^[9] TouchVision claimed a collective audience that approached about 1 million viewers each month.^[9]

• نيوز نت - قناة إخبارية متخصصة في البث التلفزيوني الرقمي، تعرض نشرة إخبارية مدتها 30 دقيقة.
• يورونيوز - قناة إخبارية ذات تنسيق مماثل في أوروبا
• أخبار الشبكة المستقلة – برنامج إخباري وطني مشترك للمحطات المستقلة، والذي استمر من عام 1980 إلى عام 1990.
• شبكة الأخبار المستقلة - شركة إنتاج (لا ينبغي الخلط بينها وبين شبكة الأخبار المستقلة ) متخصصة في إنتاج نشرات الأخبار لمحطات التلفزيون التي لا يوجد بها قسم أخبار داخلي.
• AJ+ - مزود محتوى إخباري رقمي عبر الإنترنت

• Merli, John (January 24, 2014). "News and Information for Millennials Plus". TV Technology. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
• Lipschultz, Jeremy (January 9, 2014). "Radio Innovator Sees Desire For 'Mass Appeal Intelligent, Cinematic' TV News". Huffington Post. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
• "TOUCHVISION(sm) Network Set to Debut with a Unique Model for Unified On-Air and Online Advertising Solutions". The Wall Street Journal. July 8, 2013. Archived from the original on July 12, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2016.