[DTV]

I think the 'decline' of TV news is overstated - linear ratings wise, it is one of the genres that is declining at the slowest rate - with the BBC News at Six holding up abnormally well (compared to many other continuous programmes) and the news channels having had a particularly strong last few years, especially 2022 (though this year we have begun to see a return to the pre-Covid norm). I know it's not especially radical to say, but, in so far as any linear/scheduled television will exist in the future, it'll almost certainly be news, sport and 'event' drama and entertainment that is the core of it.

For it to retain relevance, it (obviously) has to play to its strengths - which is its ability to provide a structured visual summary and explanation of the day's events. That is the one thing that TV news can do better than anything else - it's never been great for speed and, in this day and age, I could find (if I had any wish to) more opinions - even of one kind - than TV can possibly present. It's why I think the biggest misstep on the new BBC News channel is the surprisingly unvisual nature of it - the lower use of VT reports and graphics, the increased used of both internal and external talking heads - it's is all very visualised radio, but from a TV studio.