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Post by Aussie on Jan 19, 2005 22:02:28 GMT -5
Just wondering, how did Canadian broadcasters cover the Tsunami disaster that hit South Asia on December 26, killing over 226,000 people?
Here in Australia, Sky News went into full coverage for a good 2 weeks, and infact still heavily cover it.
The commercial broadcasters had extended coverage, but no rolling coverage, although they did add bulletins, and devote the majority of news time to the story.
The Seven Network however were an utter disgrace. They had removed their 10:30am National morning news program over the time because of the summer holidays, and really only had news at 4:30pm and 6pm. They axed their late night news bulletin in 2003, and you'd be made to call "Sunrise" a news program.
The Nine Network was by far the best, with extended coverage in all programs - they even bought in some of their big name presenters. There were special editions of the "Today" program, and they replaced programs with Nine News programming from Sydney, and on weekends they had late news with the very latest.
The 3 commercial networks, Ten, Nine & Seven all united for a telethon which raised about $20million (Australian).
In all about $2 billion has been contributed by Australians to the relief effort. ($1.5billion to Indonesia)
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Post by Global Fan on Jan 19, 2005 22:57:45 GMT -5
Well I think that Global National broke into programing on the day it happend. Global National gave coverage and they had many reporters there (Becasue they own Network Ten) and Global National had the only canadian reporter there.
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Post by Tim on Jan 20, 2005 1:20:07 GMT -5
The Nine Network was by far the best... Network Nine is without a doubt my favourite Australian channel. Canadian coverage has been limited to national news programs, the national news networks (CBC Newsworld and CTV NewsNet) have limited their coverage as well. CNN is the only network I know that is 24/7 on the tsunami disaster. The only break they've had from it is to talk about the Bush re-inauguration or for commercials.
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Post by Aussie on Jan 20, 2005 4:54:19 GMT -5
Well I think that Global National broke into programing on the day it happend. Global National gave coverage and they had many reporters there (Becasue they own Network Ten) and Global National had the only canadian reporter there. Global made use of Ten's reporters? Nine sure as hell deserve to be the #1 news source in this country - the others just dont seem bothered. Seven especially has questionable news commitments - they aim to be #1, yet they dont seem bothered to really invest in news outside the Sydney 6pm-6:30 slot.
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Post by BCTV News on Global Fan on Jan 21, 2005 20:14:59 GMT -5
Yes Global did use some of Ten's reporters because Global ownes Ten.
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Post by Aussie on Jan 22, 2005 1:39:59 GMT -5
Yes I know about CanWests interest in Ten... but whether they still own Ten come 2006 is another matter... I would have thought Global would use their own people - Ten didnt send its real top notch reporters over.
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Post by Global fan on Jan 22, 2005 2:50:39 GMT -5
Well Global did use their own reporters but they used Ten's reporters first. I don't think Canwest has any plans to sell Ten. I really think that Network Ten should be re-named to Global and they could have a Global National WORLD airing in both Canada and Australia.
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Post by Tim on Jan 22, 2005 3:03:30 GMT -5
That would actually be cool. Canada and Australia are pretty much literal mirror images of each other on this earth, it wouldn't be any different, and it would be great to know more about what's happening down under.
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Post by Aussie on Jan 23, 2005 7:05:28 GMT -5
Well Global did use their own reporters but they used Ten's reporters first. I don't think Canwest has any plans to sell Ten. I really think that Network Ten should be re-named to Global and they could have a Global National WORLD airing in both Canada and Australia. Well as soon as the Federal Government changes Media ownership laws once they have control of the Senate from July, it is expected that CanWest will sell some of its stake in Ten to Fairfax, the second biggest newspaper group in the country. Ten dont have much of a news agenda - I doubt they'd do anything like Global national. And I doubt they'd be stupid enough to rebrand Ten "Global". I've thought about it myself, but whats the point? People are so used to the brand, its going to be impossible for Ten to benefit from the change. Its tooo risky.
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Post by kiwi on Jan 23, 2005 7:23:34 GMT -5
There have been rumours about CanWest selling Ten and other international assets for the last couple of years. It went quiet for a while but it now appears that a sale of the Ten Network is on the cards again. Canwest are staying quiet about the rumours. I just did a Google news search and there is quit a bit of info there... news.google.co.nz/news?hl=en&ned=nz&ie=UTF-8&q=ten+network&btnG=Search+NewsLast year, Canwest put it's New Zealand operations (comprising mainly national radio networks and two TV networks) into a new company (MediaWorks NZ) and floated 30% of it. For what it's worth I think the Global brand is used in NZ as "Global News and Sport" for the radio networks.
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Post by mikezstein on Jan 23, 2005 17:21:27 GMT -5
good lookin' out, kiwi
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Post by Aussie on Jan 23, 2005 21:15:08 GMT -5
Last year, Canwest put it's New Zealand operations (comprising mainly national radio networks and two TV networks) into a new company (MediaWorks NZ) and floated 30% of it. For what it's worth I think the Global brand is used in NZ as "Global News and Sport" for the radio networks. Yeh, they tried to get Ten to buy a stake in TV 3.
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Post by Global Fan on Jan 24, 2005 0:33:36 GMT -5
Well I really think that it would be good for Ten to be renamed Global. Like it would be great for Global and then maybe we could get a Global National World.
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Post by Aussie on Jan 24, 2005 22:44:34 GMT -5
Well I really think that it would be good for Ten to be renamed Global. Like it would be great for Global and then maybe we could get a Global National World. But how would that benefit Ten? The brand is known and recognised. Most people here have never heard of Global and a name change would be stupid. Companies dont change their brands that they have built up over years and risk it to change to a new unknown name. There is no point in changing the brand.
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Post by Tim on Jan 25, 2005 2:28:35 GMT -5
They could probably still introduce GlobalNational without ruffling the proverbial rating feathers too badly.
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