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Live blogging live news…
Hats off to Simon Waldman at BBC News 24 for live-blogging his gallery stint this morning. Interesting exercise, if slightly twitterish. At one point he points to traffic volumes on the BBC’s website providing a useful gauge of a story’s popularity. IMO they ought to stream talkback (the “conversation” in the gallery). For starters it’s…
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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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News channel ratings shockers
You can call it a soft launch, but Sky News Australia’s new dedicated New Zealand newscast go off to a shocker. Ratings figures showed just 1500 people nationally aged 5 or more tuned in to the Sky News NZ Evening News debut at 7pm on Monday – or 0.1 per cent of viewers. Critics called…
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Sky mistake over the news?
Sky aren’t usually naive, but they’ve lost a lot of potential good will trying to dump the RTS “news channel of the year” from Freeview and then running this ad to kick Virgin…