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WNBC Anchor Sue Simmons swears live on air

(May 2008)

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CO
Connews
From a wage perspective though, WW Update, the Americans have always had the Trump Card.
WW
WW Update
Connews posted:
From a wage perspective though, WW Update, the Americans have always had the Trump Card.


Definitely; that's because A.) the US is a huge television market and B.) US TV news has always been fiercely competitive (a bit like newspapers in the UK).
CO
Connews
For those reasons exactly, WW Update.

So, in theory, if UK newspapers are as competitive as US TV news stations, print journalists and editors should be getting paid millions of pounds a year! Razz
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Inspector Sands
StuartPlymouth posted:
AIUI Americans are rather more sensitive to bad language on TV than we are in the UK.


Yes, there's a difrent attitude to taste and decency; they don't mind seeing violence but 'dropping the f-bomb' as they (cringingly) call it is he worst thing you can do short of showing an ladies ankle Laughing
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remlap
WW Update posted:
Connews posted:
From a wage perspective though, WW Update, the Americans have always had the Trump Card.


Definitely; that's because A.) the US is a huge television market and B.) US TV news has always been fiercely competitive (a bit like newspapers in the UK).


FYI, the US is not one television market for terrestrial television.
WW
WW Update
remlap posted:

FYI, the US is not one television market for terrestrial television.


Of course not, but the US still has national networks, national programs, and national advertising (even though, as you rightly point out, the networks do not own most of the TV stations themselves). So it's still possible to compare the size of the overall US television market to other countries' television markets.
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remlap
WW Update posted:
remlap posted:

FYI, the US is not one television market for terrestrial television.


Of course not, but the US still has national networks, national programs, and national advertising (even though, as you rightly point out, the networks do not own most of the TV stations themselves). So it's still possible to compare the size of the overall US television market to other countries' television markets.


Yes but the original topic was about WNBC which is The New York market, which in itself really could constitute a country since its so bloody huge.

Local adverts in New York may as well be national, they roll out national campaigns locally, so you have say the Geico Geko doing a local commercial for the New York market.

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