Cable news landscape to get more crowded
Don Day July 11th, 2007
Two items out today will change the cable news landscape in coming years. TVNewsDay says ABC News Now will join the cable fray - in a hybrid deal with affiliates that will put a mix of local and national content on the air. CNN Headline News does this in some markets, and this was part of the original MSNBC concept.
Also, Fox Business Network launches October 15th in about 30 million homes, the company announced today.
4 Comments Add your own
1. ! | July 11th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
they lost me at “backwaters of the internet”.
guess that’s what i get for reading “the business of broadcasting”
2. Mitch | July 11th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Didn’t they try this already using a digital subchannel? News Now was on the air in Los Angeles with a mix of local and national news for some time.
I swear broadcasters are doing everything possible to kill OTA.
3. Dan | July 11th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
The original CNN was local stories and the Atlanta
studio stuff. They had stations in every market
sending in stories right from the very first day
June 1, 1980. It looked really good.
This is nothing new.
But it wasn’t just one affiliate in a market.
Anyone could send in stuff,
and they got paid for it too.
Dan
4. Steve Boriss | July 12th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Here’s what I posted on my site at TheFutureOfNews.com:
“ABC’s 25-year delayed entry into cable news might have worked 25 years ago, but not today”
Lost Remote and TVNewsDay report that after 25 years of thinking about it, ABC is finally going to enter the cable news business. And after 25 years, their entry will be — drumroll, please — an all-news channel that combines ABC’s regular news fare with half-hourly insertions of their affiliates’ local news.
Well, that might have been a terrific idea 25 years ago when ABC’s deliberations began. But since then, more and more have decided they don’t really like ABC news — especially cable news viewers who do have a choice and could be watching ABC news if they wanted to. The number of people who watch network news is half what it was 25 years ago, and the number who believe ABC news is highly believable has dropped by about one-third. Viewers are now turning to the edgier, more partisan Fox and CNN, two channels where news IS their business, and not a neglected step-child to entertainment as at ABC.
Does ABC really think that if their news had only been available around the clock all these years they’d dominate cable news? If so, the public will have some news for ABC.
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