{"id":257,"date":"2007-02-09T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2007-02-09T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T13:18:00","slug":"sky-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/sky-bye\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky bye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hope <b>Ofcom<\/b> makes the case to keep <b>Sky News<\/b> available on <b>Freeview<\/b>, or bang go millions of homes. Journo-blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.warwick.ac.uk\/cdoidge\/entry\/sky_wave_the\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Doidge<\/a> makes the point well: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the news that Sky News is to retreat from such a popular platform (almost certainly losing a large percentage of its viewers) suggests Sky has little faith in the future of their news operation. The latest figures from BARB suggest 9% of the population see a bit of Sky News every week \u2013 but only being available on Sky and Cable will probably reduce this substantially.<\/p>\n<p>Sky News also has incredibly low advertising rates \u2013 they\u2019re not exactly rolling in cash, even if the site\u2019s a bit of a loss-leader for the Sky brand.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just bad news for Sky. The demise of the ITV News Channel in 2005 was bad enough, as it was just becoming half-decent when it was killed off. But soon there will be little competition for BBC News 24. And not even the most ardent of BBC fans want to see an end to the rivalry between the two.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not good for journalists, and it\u2019s not good for viewers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a tear in the eye of <i><b>News 24<\/i><\/b> boss <b>Kevin Bakhurst<\/b> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/theeditors\/2007\/02\/twoedged_sword.html\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;I weep for you,&#8221; the Walrus said. &#8220;I deeply sympathize.&#8221;<\/a> <b>France 24<\/b> anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hope Ofcom makes the case to keep Sky News available on Freeview, or bang go millions of homes. Journo-blogger Chris Doidge makes the point well: &#8230;the news that Sky News is to retreat from such a popular platform (almost certainly losing a large percentage of its viewers) suggests Sky has little faith in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86,33,145,78],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-france-24","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-uk-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}