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The future of UK TV news – a regulator writes
Here are Ofcom‘s discussion points from its Future of News paper (available in full here). Television news cannot be taken for granted on any commercial channel after digital switch-over, because revenues generated from advertising around news programmes do not appear to cover costs of production… …there are good reasons for existing commercial PSB channels to…
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The value of TV news
In case you hadn’t come across it, there’s a very good report [pdf] out from media consultancy Human Capital on the value of news for UK commercial Public Service Broadcasters (that’s ITV, Channel 4, and five), who all have to run news as part of the price of accessing the vanishing airwaves. In an act…
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The declining price of broadcast news…
ITV has just spun out a new deal with its news supplier, ITN. In case you don’t understand the oddness of British TV news – ITV doesn’t have its own news division, it contracts the news out – and has done for fifty years – to a company it 40% owns. According to the headline…
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Five News
There are two types of commitments in life. Verbal commitments and financial commitments. When governments make verbal commitments what do we judge them by? The money they’re allocating to realise their dreams. When you’re negotiating what do you rely on? Promises or prices? Here’s a verbal commitment: Channel Five will offer viewers dedicated slots on…