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Across developing media markets, I so often hear high praise and the example of the BBC from media outlet leaders aspiring for greatness. One of the outstanding aspects of the BBC comes with the Ofcom annual data on where the #BBC stands with its audiences at home, and where the BBC is going. Transparent, comprehensive, and open research allows a critical look at the impact of public investments in media – not all positive. Would love to hear from experts with brilliant insights into what is working, and not working, for one of the world’s preeminent broadcasters – and what efforts to change local news reporting might (or might not) be transferred to media markets in emerging democracies. Where does a media business go when the vast majority of their audiences are older, and fading away? Neil McCafferty / Graeme Moreland / Robert Ambrose / Naomi Goldsmith – All folks smarter than I: Bring some wisdom! Some key takeaways from the Report: ? BBC local radio in England reached an average of 5.1 million adults aged 15+ each week, down from 5.2 million in the same period of 2022/23. Since the BBC completed its roll out of local radio changes in January 2024, reach of these stations has continued to decline. ? The roll out of changes to local radio have resulted in little change in the audience profile of BBC local radio in England. Older listeners aged 55+ remain the core audience (55% of the overall audience). ? BBC Reach Across Media: BBC TV Channels Ages 16-34: 24% Ages 55+: 81% BBC Radio Ages 16-34: 42% Ages 55+: 67% BBC iPlayer Ages 16-34: 23% Ages 55+: 32% BBC Applications/Sites Ages 16-34: 56% Ages 55+: 80% ? For BBC TV in 2023, spending on first-run originated news and current affairs content fell by 3% and 19% respectively. ? The volume of the BBC’s regional news and current affairs output also fell by 4% in 2023, from 5,414 hours to 5,189 hours. ? Among regular users, 57% rate BBC TV highly for impartiality, a decline from last year, with users of ITV News rating ITV 62% for impartiality, and 64% of Sky’s regular users scoring it highly. ? BBC Verify is the most likely fact-checker website to be used by UK adults, with one in five UK adults aged 16+ (21%) saying they have used it. Early indications from the BBC’s analysis also suggests that BBC Verify is having a positive impact on perceptions of BBC News and the BBC more widely and in March 2024, it announced an expansion of BBC Verify and its launch in multiple countries. #internationaldevelopment #mediadevelopment #medialiteracy #disinformation

On this day in 1980, CNN began broadcasting 24-hour live news. Prior to CNN, news operations were a non-profit center for television networks... offered more as a public service. In 1991, CNN gained worldwide attention by providing around-the-clock coverage of the Persian Gulf War. Nothing draws viewers like watching a good war from the comfort of one's home. Once this model became profitable, the news became a business asset rather than an accommodation of public need. "News" began to be packaged as a product. To grow market share, the presentation of facts needed to be designed to attract a large audience. Just like a war, nothing segments the public into tribal camps better than politics, so the major Parties took the reins. The more biased the reporting, the easier it became to build and maintain an audience. Loyalty is a "big thing" when it comes to media outlets. Today, facts are no longer the main concern of the news. People aren't expected to listen to the facts and form their own opinions. Their opinions are given to them by individuals who are paid by the networks to deliver well-crafted messages that merely pretend to be factual. It is more closely aligned with the talking points of the major Parties than it is with an accurate report of what's happening. We do our part as well. We have embraced the fantasy that those who deliver the "news" have actual knowledge about the subjects they cover. They deliver their spiels so fluently that we don't even realize that they're reading someone else's word on a Teleprompter... just like our equally uninformed politicians. The arrogance they project only adds to their credibility. Of course, some of them actually are informed (although they may be few and far between). However, their paychecks are often large enough to convince them to stick with the scripts they've been given. You can tell when they're planning to leave their network because they start telling the truth. It's much like the phenomenon that occurs when a Press Secretary is about to step down. In any event, I don't want to ruin your viewing of the news. It's a great way to enjoy confirmation bias and deepen that special feeling of political self-righteousness. So, happy anniversary and congratulations to CNN for its groundbreaking impact on the truth. #news #reporting #reality #truth #politics #politicalparties #behavioralconditioning #bias

The most commonly mentioned online news sources were Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. The BBC remains the biggest single source, with 68% of people saying they turn to it for news. However, this is a survey of what people say they do - analysis based on actual usage can paint a different picture, showing for instance that BBC News reaches 75% of the UK population on an average week. […] The BBC (1.2 billion visits) and CNN (710 million visits) are the two largest news websites in the world…

Is the 6:00pm news dead? According to New Zealanders, yes. As the media landscape continues to shrink here, mainstream broadcasters experiment with content formats and platforms .. but perhaps viewers prefer to aggregate and 'produce' their own daily news feed. #nzpol #auspol #journalism #newsmedia Do we still care about the 6pm TV news? https://lnkd.in/gbdq4srC

On April 18, 1930, the BBC announced, “There is no news.” With today’s 24-hour news cycle, it feels like notable events are happening every second. But on April 18, 1930, nothing newsworthy occurred — at least according to the British Broadcasting Corporation. At the start of its regular news broadcast at 8:45 p.m., the BBC?announced, “Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news.” This unexpected declaration was followed by 15 minutes of piano music, before the radio station resumed its broadcast of Wagner’s opera?Parsifal. Though curious listeners were likely dumbfounded by this bold assertion, there were no other national networks to contest the BBC’s claim. That’s because the BBC held a nationwide monopoly on delivering news on television until 1954, and on the radio until 1972. In reality, April 18, 1930, was quite the notable news day, as nationalist rebels conducted a raid on British forces in India, which was then part of the British Empire. But communication lines were cut during the attack, making it impossible for the BBC to be aware of the news. Under the impression there were no major headlines that day, the network felt no need to lower its broadcast standards solely to fill time. The BBC decried sensationalist news reporting, and shied away from covering local automobile accidents and fires in favor of big-picture affairs that had global repercussions. In the end, the small news department — which consisted of just two editors and two sub-editors at the time — determined that April 18 simply had no events worth commenting on. Source: HistoryFacts.com

?? BBC News Scotland is launching two new titles to join its news and current affairs?portfolio in January 2025. ?? Reporting Scotland: News at Seven Starting Monday, 6 January, this new 30-minute week-night news programme will air on the BBC Scotland channel. Presented by Laura Maciver and Amy Irons, it will bring stories from the BBC’s newsrooms across Scotland, focusing on the people at the heart of communities and providing analysis and discussion of the day’s biggest news. ??? Scotcast Launching Monday, 13 January, this brand-new current affairs podcast hosted by Martin Geissler will bring insight, analysis, conversation and a bit of humour to the stories that audiences are talking about. The podcast will be be available across five platforms – BBC Sounds, BBC Scotland, BBC One Scotland, BBC iPlayer and BBC Radio Scotland.? Find out more ?? https://lnkd.in/eM8wMzMa

?Pop Culture in the News - Seizing Opportunities for Broadcast Coverage? This month, the announcement of Oasis’ reunion presented a fantastic opportunity, allowing us to leverage research by HotDealsUK and the consumer expertise of podcast host Vix Leyton to achieve nationwide coverage. This was a perfect illustration of how grabbing the opportunities presented by the news agenda isn’t simply a case of monitoring likely news events. In this article, we explore how pop culture moments can gain traction, and how - by thinking creatively - you can make the most of them. #Broadcasting #BroadcastPR #Oasis

There follows a copy of my letter published in the Birmingham Mail today in response to their article on the BBC invading multiple grounds where there already exists commercial expertise! ‘The BBC is creating problems for local news’ (Birmingham Mail headline 3rd December). Why am I not surprised? The BBC while reducing its local radio and local broadcast services is moving off its local news coverage to online and seriously impacting on local commercial publishers and indeed on its own local radio services. It is difficult to comprehend the machinations of the BBC management in relation to its local broadcast services. Take it off air and put it online and then they can say ‘We are covering local stories but not on our radio stations..well a bit!’ Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC’s spinner in chief, bravely defends the indefensible but must be holding his head in his hands. ?? Local broadcast services suffer daily and, I sense, feel last in the pecking order of the BBC’s priorities. I fear for regional BBC television news which at breakfast suffers the indignity of never being at the same time. I envisage Joanne Malin and her breakfast colleagues waiting to see if they’ll be able to make their reports at 28 minutes past the hour or maybe another 5 minutes later. ?? The BBC is funded by the taxpayer with a duty of care to its viewers and listeners it is not a commercial body trying to survive in a difficult market. The ‘death by a thousand cuts’ to BBC regional radio is taking its toll on morale and audience confidence. The BBC is likely to receive an increase in the licence fee from us, without our agreement, and yet it constantly chooses to fight commercial broadcasters, local press and online providers at every turn. There are more and more online services from the BBC competing with developing offers from the commercial sector.?The Radio 1 Anthems and the multiplicity of online services that attack Boom Radio, Smooth Radio and services of their ilk with an aim to satisfy the older audiences that they blatantly ignore on their main radio services while seeking out ‘youth’. ?? This monopoly business is a many headed hydra that doesn’t fulfil the Reithian remit to ‘inform, educate and entertain’ but does fight tooth and claw every commercial development and online operation. The BBC does many things well but to retain the right to the licence fee it must be a great service to the country and not waste vital funds creating services that are already there and desperately fighting to make a local voice heard and seen in a complex and noisy world.

It's official: You *can* fact-check presidential candidates during debates. But ABC News' decision to do so, which changes the format of such events, brings with it some criticism that may be hard to weather.... https://lnkd.in/e2ikk-xf #disney #newsmedia #journalism #media #abcnews #mediastrategy #mediaindustry

It is beyond stupid that both CTV and CBC led their nightly newscasts last night with the recovery of an old photograph of Churchill stolen from the Chateau Laurier. Judy Trinh did a far better version of the story, noting how the poor worker was first put under suspicion, and her own delight at uncovering certain details was charming. In contrast, CBC decided to take a victory lap over one of its own reporters' relatives connected to the issue, but... COME ON. Are you kidding us? This is a kicker. You are supposed to bring Canadians the most important stories of the day that affect them. Do you REALLY think a photo hung in an Ottawa hotel is top of mind for folks in Halifax, Vancouver, Weyburn, Brandon, etc.? Good gawd. Canadian news is dying not only because of the parent corporate entities -- the easy bad guy -- but because YOU the producers have mindsets that are interchangeable. Both networks recycled the cynical Tory baiting of the NDP, which is already old news, both regurgitated coverage of the U.S. prez debate we could get on any U.S. network. It took about 10 to 15 minutes for the CBC to get to a story that should have led the broadcast; its finding that the Liberals' assault rifle buy-back program was a dud. Why wasn't this CBC's lead? A well done investigative report on the appalling situation of water at Six Nations was parked in the second half of The National's broadcast. Someone on camera said people beyond the reserve "don't give a damn." Way to help that apathy by burying the piece in your lineup. Why couldn't you have edited a short version to run at the top of the hour? This was great reporting... pushed to where viewership would rapidly drop off. Why? It is bad enough that right-wing idiots misunderstand the whole point of public broadcasting, claiming wrongly it's "gov't propaganda" when that is NOT what a public broadcaster does (nor do such critics last long in the debate when you point out that the BBC exports quality informational programming around the world). But by offering a pale imitation of what your competitor does, you undermine the very purpose of the CBC in the first place. It's a mentality still stuck in the 1970s approach to news gathering. But news watchers today are often people who get their information from multiple outlets. I don't tune into you to see the flooding in New Orleans I can catch in CNN clips and on X, I tune into you to tell me what the hell is going on IN MY OWN COUNTRY. It would be nice if Canadian news networks remembered they are not supposed to be an American echo or do stories that are easy because they can take a ten minute walk up the street in Ottawa. You're supposed to tell us about significant events that affect Canadians. Could you please do your jobs and come up with nightly lineups we all want to watch?