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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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My undercover SAS Glastonbury story
Many years ago, I was tasked with doing an undercover story on – wait for it, yawn – drug-taking at Glastonbury. Class A, of course. Anyway in the days of no mobile phone cover it meant yomping over acres, co-ordination via walkie-talkie. Much hassle. We were liaising with the local constabulary too, but our secret…
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How stories shift…
ITN would consider TV news channel still a possibility?partnershipDigital Spy, UK – 2 hours 1 hour agoBy Joanne Oatts, Media Correspondent ITN chief executive Mark Wood has said the news operation wouldn’t rule out launching supplying news for a 24-hour TV news channel. …
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Playing business politics with TV news
I own a few Sky shares so I wasn’t exactly thrilled when James Murdoch decided to buy a chunk of ITV. Still, the following announcement had me choking on my chips: Ofcom’s advice is that there are public interest issues, in relation to sufficient plurality of news provision for both cross media and television news…