Post by George WK Newman on Jun 5, 2009 12:24:16 GMT -5
In 2004 ABC produced 36 hours per week, or more then 1/4 of the network's weekly feed to affiliates; Good Morning America (5 days x 2 hours), World News Night (7 days x 1/2 hour), Nightline (5 days x 1/2 hour), Prime Time Thursday (1 hour), 20/20 (1 hour), This Week (1 hour), and World News Now (5 days x 3 hours). NBC & CBS have similar offerings.
FOX does not offer a daily news schedule to affiliates but it does program FOX News Sunday. CW does not maintain network news operations.
Special events are an important part of network news coverage. Some like political conventions are planned in advance, others are emergency based and may preempt regularly scheduled programming.
The big networks emply approximately a thousand employees in its news division each, mostly based in NYC. Washington, London, and other smaller bureaus are maintained. Network affiliates contribute local stories but major stories are mostly reported by network correspondents on location.
In the past network news divisions were cost centers tht brought distinction to their corporate owners. Today news divisions have found the combination of morning shows and prime-time programming to be profitable. Upscale audiences with higher then average cost per thousand viewers (CPM) help to support the evening news programs.
In most large markets Fox and CW affiliates broadcst a 10:00pm local newscast as counter programming against network prime-time and to capture viewers who go to sleep early.
FOX does not offer a daily news schedule to affiliates but it does program FOX News Sunday. CW does not maintain network news operations.
Special events are an important part of network news coverage. Some like political conventions are planned in advance, others are emergency based and may preempt regularly scheduled programming.
The big networks emply approximately a thousand employees in its news division each, mostly based in NYC. Washington, London, and other smaller bureaus are maintained. Network affiliates contribute local stories but major stories are mostly reported by network correspondents on location.
In the past network news divisions were cost centers tht brought distinction to their corporate owners. Today news divisions have found the combination of morning shows and prime-time programming to be profitable. Upscale audiences with higher then average cost per thousand viewers (CPM) help to support the evening news programs.
In most large markets Fox and CW affiliates broadcst a 10:00pm local newscast as counter programming against network prime-time and to capture viewers who go to sleep early.