Comments on: Cable news landscape to get more crowded http://www.lostremote.com/2007/07/11/cable-news-landscape-to-get-more-crowded/ Where TV Finds the Future Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:29:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Steve Boriss http://www.lostremote.com/2007/07/11/cable-news-landscape-to-get-more-crowded/#comment-409657 Steve Boriss Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:35:06 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/07/11/cable-news-landscape-to-get-more-crowded/#comment-409657 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. 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.

]]> By: Dan http://www.lostremote.com/2007/07/11/cable-news-landscape-to-get-more-crowded/#comment-409104 Dan Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:02:09 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/07/11/cable-news-landscape-to-get-more-crowded/#comment-409104 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 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

]]> By: Mitch http://www.lostremote.com/2007/07/11/cable-news-landscape-to-get-more-crowded/#comment-408897 Mitch Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:53:46 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/07/11/cable-news-landscape-to-get-more-crowded/#comment-408897 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. 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.

]]> By: ! http://www.lostremote.com/2007/07/11/cable-news-landscape-to-get-more-crowded/#comment-408796 ! Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:12:42 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/07/11/cable-news-landscape-to-get-more-crowded/#comment-408796 they lost me at "backwaters of the internet". guess that's what i get for reading "the business of broadcasting" they lost me at “backwaters of the internet”.

guess that’s what i get for reading “the business of broadcasting”

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