2012comparative journalism_itv.ppt

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Comparative Journalism


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ITV

ITV (Independent Television) was launched in1955. This was before BBC2 (1964)

ITV is a wholly commercial company and receivesmost its revenues from advertising.

It has a licence to broadcast from the Britishgovernment.

Amongst the conditions of this licence is that it

must broadcast a certain amount of newsprogrammes every day.

There are also rules for documentary production,independent production and regional production.


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ITN News

In 1955 ITN news also started as news service

for ITV.

It remains the second largest broadcast news

organisation in the UK. It is based in London

but has international offices in Beijing,

Brussels, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, New York,Paris, Sydney and Washington DC.


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ITN News on ITV

On ITV there are 30-minute ITN national news

broadcasts at 1.30pm; 5.30pm and 10.00pm These are followed by 30 minute regional

news broadcasts (10 minutes after 10.30pm)


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ITN News

Despite being a commercialbroadcaster ITN had a verygood reputation in Britain forproducing high-quality news

broadcasts.

The news broadcasts used tobe in a broadsheet style.Many of the ITN news readers

would be famous for beingvery tough interviewers.


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ITN News

ITN also employed Britains first black

newsreader, Trevor McDonald


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ITV and ITN News

In 1982, another new terrestrial channel, Channel 4began broadcasting in Britain.

ITN News also produced the news programs for thischannel.

Until 1990, by law ITN was the news provider for ITVand Channel 4.

Since this time other news providers (but not the BBC)

have had the option to apply to be news provider forthis channels.

Although Sky News (Murdoch) has shown interest, ITVand Channel 4 have renewed their contracts with ITN.


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ITN News

From the 1950s to 1980s ITN was well respected

for its news coverage.

ITV also broadcast many high-quality

documentaries and current affairs programmes

such as World In Action.

In the 1990s, it has been criticised for reducing

the quality of news broadcasts (dumbing down) There is now more celebrity news and also few

interviews.


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News at When?

During the 2000s ITV was criticised for movingthe time of its most watched news programmethe News at Ten to different times.

ITV did not like having a news broadcast at 10pm.It wanted to show films from 9pm without abreak for news.

It changed the time to 11pm.

Many members of the public complained because11pm was too late. ITV chose to change the timeof the news back to 10pm but to make it 10minutes shorter.

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