On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Henry Fung <calwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> MSNBC is going to run into the problem that doomed it when it was > "America's NewsChannel": people in this country don't watch rolling news. > They might get some more ratings for a short period of time but in a year, > their ratings will be lower than when they were the liberal antidote to Fox > News. It's a shame because in countries like Britain, rolling news does > quite well. Fortunately many markets can get BBC World if they want to > watch a real news channel, but I would like to see something like BBC News > 24 geared for America (the old Headline News was close, but not quite). > > People in this country have never been given the choice. As you said, Headline News was close but not quite (canning Jeanne Moss would've helped). Even early CNN peppered its news with Showbiz Tonight and Larry King. Somebody create a newschannel fully-funded with bureaus all around the world staffed with experts and honest-to-God journalists and I suspect people would take notice... maybe not as many people will take as much notice of it as Shark Week, but a news channel does not require a majority to make a profit. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
