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News at Ten
In the spirit of passing on hopeless rumours I have heard that the official announcement is today – and also that it will be Wednesday.
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The return of News At Ten
Now, at least, I can say to people under 30 that I once worked on News At Ten and they won’t gaze blankly back at me. (Then again, maybe it’s just the way I say it.)So if you wondered where the Dermot-sized gap at Sky News was coming from, now you know. Julie Etchingham will…
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Sky and ITN
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…
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Ofcom and the future of TV news
Writing in American journalism’s gilded age, Charles Dudley Warner offered this assessment of the worth of a newspaper: Not all newspapers which make money are good, for some succeed by catering to the lowest tastes of respectable people, and to the prejudice, ignorance, and passion of the lowest class; but, as a rule, the successful…