I know CNN is American but its a shame on clock changes it should change for CNN Intl programming. Surely like AJE, it should operate on GMT all year round.
For the next two weeks we get First Move at 1pm, CTW at 2pm.
Another sponsored African spectacular ahead this afternoon (GMT):
16.30 Inside Africa
17.00 Connecting Africa
17.30 African Voices
And if you miss them, they're on again overnight (GMT):
02.00 Inside Africa
02.30 Marketplace Africa
02.45 Marketplace Africa
03.00 Connecting Africa
03.30 African Voices Changemakers
Surely they're due another 5 hour game of golf soon again...
That's pretty much normal a normal Sunday schedule although Connecting Africa is monthly I think, with Quest's programmes and other specials in that slot.
In its defence, I guess at least the sponsored African programmes like Inside Africa/African Voices/Connecting Africa provide coverage of a region which otherwise isn't heavily covered by CNN.
The problem is that there are too many of these sorts of shows and the content is largely tedious and has a strong sense of 'puff piece'/PR to it. I'd imagine it keeps the money coming in though and the beancounters happy.
Right. And the fact that Africa doesn't get the coverage it deserves on regular CNNI newscasts is another problem for a network that once considered itself truly global in scope.
It's terrible rubbish to be honest, I just turned on CNNI and Connecting Africa and they're talking about renewable energy. It's appears the voiceover is just reading content off a brochure, over stock footage. There are some onsite interviews but all the questions are so softball you wouldn't give the person a place on a journalism course, however you would point them in the direction of PR.
I don't blame the host at all, it's a job and it's not news, it's a pure puff piece.
Don't get me started on the bank that funds this, they seem to have deep pockets.
Up next African Voices Changemakers. lucky for me I finished painting a room earlier today, I'll watch that dry instead.
The only reason these shows are made is so it can be mentioned often in promotional material that they featured at some point on CNN. (they'll leave out it the international bit of the name I would think). No one in their right mind would actually watch this on a regular basis and I can see how these shows would actually drive away possible investors.
I know CNN is American but its a shame on clock changes it should change for CNN Intl programming. Surely like AJE, it should operate on GMT all year round.
For the next two weeks we get First Move at 1pm, CTW at 2pm.
On my side of the world the whole schedule will change by 2 hrs for about 6 months. Eg during our summer, the northern hemisphere winter the main Newsroom block starts at 6pm, but during our winter, northern summer it starts at 4pm. It’s a combination of our daylight savings time and US daylight savings.
So I’m well used to schedule changes roughly every 6 mths!
I know CNN is American but its a shame on clock changes it should change for CNN Intl programming. Surely like AJE, it should operate on GMT all year round.
For the next two weeks we get First Move at 1pm, CTW at 2pm.
On my side of the world the whole schedule will change by 2 hrs for about 6 months. Eg during our summer, the northern hemisphere winter the main Newsroom block starts at 6pm, but during our winter, northern summer it starts at 4pm. It’s a combination of our daylight savings time and US daylight savings.
So I’m well used to schedule changes roughly every 6 mths!
I have never once thought about Daylight Savings Time for the Southern Hemisphere being the opposite of the northern...
If you think the DST "transition" is messy between the US and Europe, imagine what happens when you factor in Australia. Sometimes, Sydney is 9 hours ahead of London and other times 11 hours. This is what happens when a global channel tries to set up "appointment-based" programming lineups (especially during primetime) tied to different regions all on a single channel whereby programmes are identical everywhere.
Before BBC World took US audiences into more serious consideration, it only had to follow UK/European DST changes. After the last Sunday of March, those in Asia would not need to adjust their viewing habits for another seven months.
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If you think the DST "transition" is messy between the US and Europe, imagine what happens when you factor in Australia. Sometimes, Sydney is 9 hours ahead of London and other times 11 hours. This is what happens when a global channel tries to set up "appointment-based" programming lineups (especially during primetime) tied to different regions all on a single channel whereby programmes are identical everywhere.
Before BBC World took US audiences into more serious consideration, it only had to follow UK/European DST changes. After the last Sunday of March, those in Asia would not need to adjust their viewing habits for another seven months.
To be fair to CNN (and also not wanting to turn this into a BBC forum!) we have the same schedule change with BBC World as well but I guess because they have more of a “news every hour” style it has less of an impact. Nevertheless when you get used to shows like The Briefing (pre pandemic) being at say 6pm and it suddenly moves to 4pm it does take a bit of getting used to!