02-02-2023, 12:59 PM
(02-02-2023, 12:44 PM)DTV Wrote:(02-02-2023, 12:19 PM)Kojak Wrote: It's interesting to me how World is very much the favoured child in all of this, whereas 20 or so years ago things were the complete opposite - 24 was the golden child and World was stuck in a broom cupboard with, as Stephen Cole once put it, News 24's cast-offs. How times change, eh?Well I suppose in the early-2000s World was not in a financially good state - indeed, at one point it was at real risk of being axed if things didn't improve quickly (around the time of a bit of a kerfuffle around fair use fees). That is why you had a bare-bones schedule and presenters doing quite long shifts even on weekdays..
That’s really interesting. I never knew there was a danger of World being closed. Any idea where I could find out more about that?
I know the World shifts were long (about 5 hours a piece and longer at weekends, were they not?) but it was very rigidly news at x:00 and programmes at :30, so I’d imagine the format was much less demanding on the presenter than the rolling style we have now?
Obviously I get that things have done a 180 now because World is commercial and 24 isn’t - I just find it amusing (if that’s at all the right word) how the tables have turned over the years.