Comments on: Sponsorship gives back five minutes to ‘World News’

By: morganusvitus

morganusvitus — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:06:15 +0000

The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:28:34 +0000

chisel away

By: ~bc

~bc — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:48:44 +0000

I for one welcome this. I enjoyed it when NBC did it, and wrote them to tell them so. Guess not enough people did, because I haven’t seen it since. This could keep me on ABC for the news, I had been strongly considering going to NBC for the HD. But I prefer Charlie Gibson, and ABC in general. They seem to hype less, but still much more than they should. I think it should be a race to the bottom: the one with the least hype wins… “Tonight, on World News: why you’re going to die 30 minutes after this broadcast? Is it your fault?”

By: themanhattanchannel

themanhattanchannel — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:22:28 +0000

great.

now we’ll know what to chisel on its headstone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:14:23 +0000

For the record, take it from a staffer here, Charlie’s show is titled “World News.”

By: Steve Safran

Steve Safran — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:20:13 +0000

Ya get the feeling there’s an element here that really enjoys it when we make mistakes?

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:41:58 +0000

Thanks flotsam, fixed the name.

Still, this only happens once in a blue moon.

By: themanhattanchannel

themanhattanchannel — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:28:30 +0000

“through the nab and lobbyists”

words to remember.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:10:50 +0000

You all are missing the point I think.
Too bad, but it does prove the point, that
Broadcasters are only changing because they are
forced to. This is not a good indication of a successful
industry. HP forced their own printer obsolesces
by obsoliting their own printers. Apple forced their own
computers to be obsolete by making OSX. Hard Drive
manufacturers forced their own products to be obsolete
by making better and higher capacity drives faster
than the old ones could possibly ware out.

But Broadcasters….. they are all about ‘protecting”
their obsolescence through the NAB and lobbyists.

Take a 30 minute newscast that used to have 6
minutes of commercials and now has 14 minutes.
At some point the viewer says Bullshit.
The result is less viewers.
Then someone somewhere in the structure realizes
and offers advertisers something different.
This is classic capitalism.
People purchase (watch) what they feel is a good value. Nightly News, with only 16 minutes of news in 30 minutes is apparently not a good value….
imagine that

Dan

By: 5w30

5w30 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:34:34 +0000

CBS did the same with “60 Minutes” a while back …
Electronics manufacturer Philips did the CBS … and
quite interestingly the NBC job too … Philips makes a lot
of money worldwide selling light bulbs … as does the
successor to Thos. Edison’s company - GE.

By: adm

adm — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:02:47 +0000

Zamibia? Is that like Mozambabwe?

By: jetsam

jetsam — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:55:12 +0000

Mr. Gibson’s program has been called “World News” since last July.

By: flotsam

flotsam — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:33:04 +0000

About this report:

1. Mr. Gibson’s program is called World News Tonight.

2. World News Now is a digital offering by ABC News.

3. The last time one heard of an ad buy that produced more time for news content was the buy on NBC’s Nightly News that produced an additinal five minutes per night for a week.

Do we have a fact checking problem here?