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CNN International & Domestic

ginnyfan posted:
Will CNNI ever be back??? Not one second of CNNI people and international news for a week now.


Rosemary is on air now.
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CNN International & Domestic

Meridian AM posted:
I know it has a big following on satellite via Sky and Freesat, but it would be nice if CNN International could go back on Freeview for those viewers to be able to see it more and to give them more choice.
I saw somewhere online that It's been the 3rd most popular news channel in the UK for a while, after BBC and Sky. I know quite a few people who watch it pretty regularly and it has excellent global reporters and presenters.


I don't know how the regulations work for Freesat, but I suspect that CNN will have to follow stricter Ofcom rules if it wants to go Freeview.
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CNN International & Domestic

Amanpour is on right now talking about foreign policy consequences of the elections. Pretty rare sight on domestic news networks.
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CNN International & Domestic

nznewser posted:
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Kate Bolduan anchoring CNN Newsroom currently, as part of CNN's "Countdown to Election Day" coverage. Doing a good job, given the hour and the fact she probably isn't used to being at work at 3am!


Was it CNNi or Domestic newsroom?


It had the red CNN logo on screen, so was CNNI produced, but otherwise had the look and feel of Domestic.


In a technical sense, Brooke Baldwin is back on CNNI (she has hosted several episodes of World News many years ago). And she's back on air overall after CNN Right Now and The Lead have been extended.
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CNN International & Domestic

nznewser posted:
Kate Bolduan anchoring CNN Newsroom currently, as part of CNN's "Countdown to Election Day" coverage. Doing a good job, given the hour and the fact she probably isn't used to being at work at 3am!


Was it CNNi or Domestic newsroom?
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CNN International & Domestic

scottishtv posted:
For some reason, they love a sidebar of big numbers this year. I expect the hour-by-hour election countdown clocks will appear soon...

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I found something a bit weird just moments ago. The shot featuring a CNN medical dnalyst had an election background rather than their purple COVID background. Someone must have been asleep at the switch. Rolling Eyes
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US ELECTIONS 2020 Coverage

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JKDerry posted:
Out of all of the US networks, which one is really the best to follow on election night?


They’re all relatively similar and tend to declare states within 10-15 mins of one another. So you can watch any and get broadly the same thing. However, the nitty gritty...


NBC/CBS/ABC: not great to watch if you’re streaming or outside the US as quite heavy on the adverts and local affiliate cutaways (so you’ll get lots of filler). NBC quickest to make calls, ABC usually slowest (but we are talking by a few mins here, not hours)

CNN: CNN is very good but very cautious about projections and can be 20+ min behind others, which if you’re looking online and see for example Ohio has been projected on other outlets, you’ll endure 20 mins of CNN in a parallel universe where that hasn’t happened yet. You can argue it’s a higher standard but it feels slower. Watch for John King and his magic wall touchscreen, which is miles better than anything else out there. Wolf Blitzer is hard to watch. That said, in 2016 they picked up the signs of a Trump victory in rural counties earlier than others.

MSNBC: what I’ll be watching. With NBC, tends to be the fastest of the networks to make projections (after Fox), and while their magic wall equivalent isn’t as good as CNN’s, it’s good enough. Presentation is less hysterical than CNN’s/Wolf IMHO.

Fox: not my political taste but they do tend to be fastest at making calls

PBS: a lot more sober, cerebral coverage, some great commentators and use AP polling which in 2016 was the first to call the final result.


The difference between NBC and MSNBC? As mentioned, NBC and other US networks are dependent on local cut-ins. Terrestrial ('free TV') networks are the place to go to hear more about down-ballot races, but viewers outside not just the US but a local market will not be able to learn about interesting non-national races, though some local stations might provide an online stream of the local coverage. MSNBC has more punditry (especially centre-left and Lincoln Project-esque Republican ones) to show and Steve Kornacki navigating the map and numbers. Obviously, MSNBC will show projections at about the same time as the parent network.

MSNBC's live audio feed used to be available for free (also for a fee if you don't want ads) on TuneIn to international audiences but I suppose for rights reasons, the network withdrew the feed internationally.
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CNN International & Domestic

Affi_85 posted:

Good to see Ana, it’s a shame Hong Kong don’t use their studio at all anymore and just utilise flash sets.


I imagine they converted the studio portion into extra office space. Either by CNN or another tenant.

BFGArmy posted:
Soupnzi posted:
It’s just so much more exciting to see the US CNN now. I’m not sure I want to see that much from London anymore (even after the election). No one domestically is ever turning to CNN for UK stories.


That seems to be the direction of travel anyway - domestic coverage seems to be favoured over the International coverage even on stories that are International's patch (e.g. the Notre Dame fire a while back) and the coronavirus has just accelerated that move.

I appreciate your view but for me too much of the US coverage does have an infotainment hollow type feel to it (the endless pundit/analyst line-ups don't help in that regard and neither do the usual countdowns to events or constant 'BREAKING NEWS' - Wolf's show is particularly bad for both) and it's more a rolling US politics channel aimed at the political anorak than a news channel. Added to that your average viewer in say Nairobi or Seoul doesn't have give two hoots most of the time about a US House Judiciary committee - if they're even aware of such a committee.

The International output more has much more of a 'proper news' feel to it for me with the all-round presentation, strong standard of anchors and correspondents and the wider range of material covered. Give me Hala Gorani, Becky Anderson, Michael Holmes,Bianca Nobilo & Rosemary Church any day over the likes of Wolf, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon who act like they are the news. And certainly I've tuned in less to CNN this year than I normally would this past year.


CNNI is practically the channel where people who miss the CNN (US) of the early-mid 90s could tune into as it retains similar features to that channel.
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CNN International & Domestic

LivefromORL posted:
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By the way, what's that font CNN uses to highlight COVID-related info on the right-side of the screen? They seem to have enough of having their in-house font monopolise the screen for the past four years. Or are they now transitioning to that new font (albeit very slowly)?


Is it not Helveti- I mean CNN Sans?


Not completely.

Also, Anna C from HK is on now. Nice to see HK studios utilised on weekends given that CNN no longer produces regular newscasts from there.
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NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC affiliates and TODAY

London Lite posted:
MSNBC certainly before Trump wasn't so heavy on the left wing bias bar the opinion shows, which would leave Fox back to doing what it did best before the Donald became president, bashing the Dems rather than being a puppet network for the Trump Administration.


That statement needs a little bit more nuance. In the 2007-early 2015 period, they were a paradise for the left. You'd have Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Melissa Harris-Perry amongst others. Then 2015 came and they shifted to the centre. That lasted for about two years before Maddow started presenting her Russia hit pieces and the network experienced a surge in ratings.
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CNN International & Domestic

By the way, what's that font CNN uses to highlight COVID-related info on the right-side of the screen? They seem to have enough of having their in-house font monopolise the screen for the past four years. Or are they now transitioning to that new font (albeit very slowly)?
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Broadcasting 101

Interesting article Ne1L C. Lest I be answering my own question, here's my best guess about its rationale and please feel free to correct me if I didn't get something here:

The hard break in the US might stem from the unique relationship between local stations and national networks. Unlike everywhere else, US networks don't have centralised control over a station's operations, not even among the stations they own. On BBC One and ITV1 for instance, the regional programming is very limited whereas in the US, the networks and local stations are responsible for roughly half of the schedule. And I think the hard break might be a way for networks to cede some control to local stations to allow them to insert local content (ads, local/syndicated show promos, etc) for a minute or two.

My feeling is the soft break is a break at the discretion of the show's producers. The ads and programme promos seen there appear to be technically segments that are queued up in the show's galleries (not the master control).

This is probably why it may be best to watch US election night from cable news networks than broadcast networks.

Hope I got it right.