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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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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…
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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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Panorama – quick reax
Before you shed any tears for the BBC‘s Panorama, remember the old one wasn’t exactly fantastic. Under Mike Robinson no one in sport was safe, be it the Jockey Club or Sam Allardyce. We never saw the expose on drinking and darts players. I had to bale out of an engaging Dispatches to watch, and…