On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> In an interview with Capital NY, the man who put NBC in the toilet says > that he wants CNN to go after the Discovery/History/NatGeo/A&E audience, > which will probably mean more reality shows and less news and news > commentary on CNN--he also wants HLN to back off of trial coverage, which > would be good if it meant no more Nancy Grace: > > > http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2013/12/8536789/zucker-plans-massive-change-cnn > > Do they really think that the only audience for hard news is senior > citizens who want spin? If so, Al Jazeera and the BBC might as well get > out of the U.S. right now and leave TV in this country much poorer than it > is already. > When I was growing up in Los Angeles in the 1970s there were 2 all news AM radio stations (KNX and KFWB; I think at least the latter is no longer all news). When CNN first came online I assumed it would be the TV version of those radio stations, and for a while this was close to being true. If you are going to have a cable news network, then I think you should have news programs on (though I don't mind applying something of a newspaper model on it, so that you would have sports and lifestyle and weather and finance and entertainment sections/programs). Another acceptable model is to have a large, multi-purpose network, which includes a news division. This is the traditional model of the broadcast networks. If CNN wants to move in that direction I have no beef with that, as long as they very clearly indicate the boundaries of their entertainment and news division. But then I think they should change their name. -- -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
