Sky News

In 2007, Mark Thompson Peter Horrocks apparently walked into a meeting of top BBC talent and declared - not untruthfully - “There is no market for newsreaders.”
Unfortunately “even a dead cat bounces” (as finance types say) and the market promptly leapt back into action and Natasha Kaplinsky and Dermot Murnaghan both left the BBC for Sky. […]

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Here is what Rupert Murdoch told the House of Lords Communications committee regarding Sky News. Personally (not that I would necessarily want to) I think you could Fox up Sky, but what you lack in the UK is the Talk Radio base from which to recruit your talent. But don’t listen to me yacking on […]

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Andrew Marr should think before he criticises Sky News on the “never wrong for long” front. Here is what he told the Lords:
“I do think (the BBC is) different and we have to stay different,” he told the House of Lords communication committee.
“This is most acute in the age of 24-hour news because the desperate journalistic […]

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Fox News has one, now Sky News Australia is going to have one - yes, business channels are the new must-have accessory for a Murdoch-owned 24-hour news channel. When will Osterley play host to a business channel? They have got some extra space, I seem to recall…

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Here’s the Competition Commission rejecting Sky, as it relates to TV news:
We do not think that this shareholding is sufficient to give rise to competition concerns in other areas we’ve looked at such as advertising and TV news provision. As far as the media public interest consideration is concerned, we do not think there is […]

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The BBC is trumpeting its recent surge in 24-hour news, according to the Guardian:
The BBC head of television news, Peter Horrocks, said: “We are maintaining our traditional values of accuracy and authority, with an emphasis on original journalism and vivid story-telling.
“Audiences might have reason to question our competitors’ commitment to news. Sky News is no longer […]

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