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Fox News Business Channel
Although you’re not about to see a Sky News Business Channel anytime soon, viewers in the U.S. will be getting an FNC-flavored biz channel eventually. And the LA Times carries the shocking prediction that Rupert Murdoch will buy venerable but redesigned biz paper, The Wall Street Journal, to help make this dream come true: Murdoch…
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Sky News – ‘The Day The Whale Came To London’
Watching Sky News tonight (8pm), I’m reminded of this famous post: Schedule. Fill. Someone?
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TV News – who gives a Ross?
In television, I think we should start talking about the cost of what we do in Rosses – Jonathan Rosses. Just to refresh your memory, Jonathan takes home/homes about six million quid a year. So ITV News costs £35 million, that’s a six Ross deal. Channel 4 News is about £20 million, just over three…
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Sky-TN
The news that Sky are buying into ITV makes me a little nervous for ITN. Admittedly £940 million is a big chunk of change and a pootling £35 million a year in savings by dumping your news provider is nothing, but… [MG]