30-03-2023, 12:15 AM
As DTV outlines, I’m sure it’s the fact these programmes can be repeated that makes them cost effective. Add in the fact that a typical WN (and now simulcast channel) format is 25 minute bulletins at the weekend, and you can have much longer shifts due to natural “breaks” for the presenter as the pre-recorded programmes are aired.
This probably adds up to a significant saving over the course of the day as those breaks in live news will also be giving gallery staff, floor managers and so on equivalent breaks too - so everybody’s shift can be made longer, for no real extra pay. Also, relatively few events tend to happen at the weekend anyway - so extended bulletins would end being light on content, most likely, and require padding out. You might as well have a shorter bulletin, then a back-half show of interest to the sort of people who watch the NC anyway.
Kojak is right about social media, I’m sure; but really traditional media needs to be the “anti social media”, a place for trusted analysis and facts - not speculation and spats over this side vs that.
This probably adds up to a significant saving over the course of the day as those breaks in live news will also be giving gallery staff, floor managers and so on equivalent breaks too - so everybody’s shift can be made longer, for no real extra pay. Also, relatively few events tend to happen at the weekend anyway - so extended bulletins would end being light on content, most likely, and require padding out. You might as well have a shorter bulletin, then a back-half show of interest to the sort of people who watch the NC anyway.
Kojak is right about social media, I’m sure; but really traditional media needs to be the “anti social media”, a place for trusted analysis and facts - not speculation and spats over this side vs that.