NBC News

In New York I managed to catch up with an old chum in network news and get a peak at the new NBC/MSNBC set (which is pretty impressive, especially for the back office co-ord stuff), and which will also bring the news channel from Secaucus, NJ to Rockefeller Plaza.
So NBC are spending but does the evening […]

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I think that the networks, they are fed up with the massive bombs. They don’t want to see things going bang anymore. What troubles me is that - what troubles me most personally, is when I see children hurt - and those are the stories that you really want to get on the air and […]

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The sad secret of broadcast news ratings is what’s on before you. Many’s the night we’d pat ourselves on the back for a ratings win over our rivals when the battle had been won by John Thaw and his dark red Jag in Inspector Morse.
In the U.S. two network news shows have just changed Executive Producers […]

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A big congrats to Alex Wallace who is new EP of the NBC Nightly News. She is the real deal…

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The tectonic plates are shifting. The NBC Nightly News, which has held the number one slot in U.S. network news for a decade, is being overhauled.
A little history. Once CBS News had the lead with Walter Cronkite. Then Dan Rather took the CBS chair and kept the lead, but Rather couldn’t keep Cronkite’s audience and the […]

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I‘ve lavished praise on CBS News’ Public Eye site before. A recent post raises the influence of demographics on the content of the Evening News, and the dilemmas that poses - always, but always, in second-guessing story selection.
My personal view is that it’s a mistake to break newscasts down story by story. You’re much better off […]

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