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Tag: NBC News

  • Two views on TV news

    I had a chance to look over the memo from ITN’s Dave Mannion on the return of News At Ten. Without repeating it in full, it offers important insights into the thinking of one of Britain’s best television journalists. We have been given a prime time slot. Our job is not simply to split the…

  • The future of the evening news – grey but rosy?

    In New York I managed to catch up with an old chum in network news and get a peak at the new NBC/MSNBC set (which is pretty impressive, especially for the back office co-ord stuff), and which will also bring the news channel from Secaucus, NJ to Rockefeller Plaza. So NBC are spending but does…

  • TV News 101 – it’s the lead-ins, stupid!

    The sad secret of broadcast news ratings is what’s on before you. Many’s the night we’d pat ourselves on the back for a ratings win over our rivals when the battle had been won by John Thaw and his dark red Jag in Inspector Morse. In the U.S. two network news shows have just changed…

  • NBC Nightly News

    A big congrats to Alex Wallace who is new EP of the NBC Nightly News. She is the real deal…