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Sky News Business
Fox News has one, now Sky News Australia is going to have one – yes, business channels are the new must-have accessory for a Murdoch-owned 24-hour news channel. When will Osterley play host to a business channel? They have got some extra space, I seem to recall…
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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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Diversity: the price of success in TV news
The BBC is trumpeting its recent surge in 24-hour news, according to the Guardian: The BBC head of television news, Peter Horrocks, said: “We are maintaining our traditional values of accuracy and authority, with an emphasis on original journalism and vivid story-telling. “Audiences might have reason to question our competitors’ commitment to news. Sky News…
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The collateral damage of documentary promotion
Yesterday the BBC invited assorted media journos to take a peak at its autumn schedule. According to the Guardian, as BBC One boss Peter Fincham introduced a clip to promote RDF doc series A Year with the Queen he announced, “Annie Leibovitz gets it slightly wrong and the Queen walks out in a huff.” We…