27-01-2023, 10:14 AM
(27-01-2023, 07:10 AM)Independent Wrote:The agreement with ABC was, as you say, much more based around the pooling of clips and archives - although ABC's World News Tonight did used to run out on News 24 for a period as well.(26-01-2023, 06:58 PM)JMT1985 Wrote: Would GB News ever partner with a big US broadcaster to help them with international news?Unless I'm misremembering (and that could be the case) BBC never really needed ABC for their international coverage. The BBC's coverage of the US would have been excellent even without working with ABC. ABC's contributions were just early on-the-scene live reports while BBC teams were still making their way to US locations far from their US bureaus. The BBC had and still has one of the world's most extensive network of correspondents and bureaus for a broadcaster.
Talk TV of course owned by Murdoch has access to Fox News which they can use to their benefit.
BBC used to use ABC and Sky used to air CBS News.
I wonder if the best way for them to improve international news content would be to align with a partner, maybe Reuters?
The current arrangement between CBS and the BBC is very much an evolution of this, and includes the sharing of correspondents (with appropriate on-air references to each partner).
As for the idea that GB News would need a partner, I thought the point of their outfit was that they weren't going to do International News. Their claim, and I've yet to see any real evidence of this, was that they'd hunt out stories from the nations and regions. That seems to have equated to sending a few press-packers to stand outside pubs in Powys, Wigan, or Hull and ask people for their opinion on the latest dog whistle. So: no, I can't see them partnering with a serious news broadcaster any time soon.