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(November 2011)

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SW
Steve Williams
JAS84 posted:
Why don't they use the 5.30pm timeslot in this situation? I get that they'd want to avoid clashing with the BBC and ITV news programmes, but putting it on More4 probably means much lower than usual ratings.


I don't suppose much of its regular audience is at home at 5.30. Obviously it's going to get lower ratings on More4 but it stays in people's schedules, as opposed to them missing it completely. One of the main attractions of C4 News is that it's at 7pm for people who have come home too late for the BBC and ITV bulletins.
GB
TheGoldBadger
If C4 also did a report about let's say BREXIT, wouldn't that need a seperate title sequence?

And also for things like the weather, we all know that C4 like ITV, gets paid through advertising so the advert/sponsor of the C4 Weather should play after the ident

17 days later

NG
noggin Founding member
JAS84 posted:
Why don't they use the 5.30pm timeslot in this situation? I get that they'd want to avoid clashing with the BBC and ITV news programmes, but putting it on More4 probably means much lower than usual ratings.

People not home from work? Target audience more likely to channel flip at 1900 than watch at 1730 before they'd realised it had moved?

33 days later

VM
VMPhil
Channel 4 News are in very hot water with Ofcom…

Quote:
The media regulator took the unusual step of ordering Channel 4 News to broadcast its decision because it is the latest in a string of accuracy lapses in recent years.

It is very rare for Ofcom to order such a public broadcast of a decision, especially against one of the UK’s most high-profile and respected news organisations.

The last time Ofcom did so was in 2015, when it told Russia Today to make two on-air broadcasts after the TV company was found to have misleadingly reported that the BBC’s Panorama had faked pictures of a chemical attack in Syria.

“This is the fourth time in three years we have found Channel 4 in breach of its requirement to report news with due accuracy,” said Ofcom. “We are particularly concerned that another serious breach has happened, given Channel 4’s previous assurances to Ofcom that improvements to its compliance processes were being made. Considering the seriousness of this breach, we are requiring Channel 4 News to air a summary of our breach decision.”


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/11/channel-4-news-condemned-by-ofcom-for-westminster-attack-blunder?CMP=twt_a-media_b-gdnmedia
AE
AlexEdohHD13
VMPhil posted:
Channel 4 News are in very hot water with Ofcom…

Quote:
The media regulator took the unusual step of ordering Channel 4 News to broadcast its decision because it is the latest in a string of accuracy lapses in recent years.

It is very rare for Ofcom to order such a public broadcast of a decision, especially against one of the UK’s most high-profile and respected news organisations.

The last time Ofcom did so was in 2015, when it told Russia Today to make two on-air broadcasts after the TV company was found to have misleadingly reported that the BBC’s Panorama had faked pictures of a chemical attack in Syria.

“This is the fourth time in three years we have found Channel 4 in breach of its requirement to report news with due accuracy,” said Ofcom. “We are particularly concerned that another serious breach has happened, given Channel 4’s previous assurances to Ofcom that improvements to its compliance processes were being made. Considering the seriousness of this breach, we are requiring Channel 4 News to air a summary of our breach decision.”


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/11/channel-4-news-condemned-by-ofcom-for-westminster-attack-blunder?CMP=twt_a-media_b-gdnmedia

Ouch
SL
Shaun Linden
Good on Ofcom. Hopefully this will make Channel 4 News think twice before taking a holier than thou approach to its reporting.
DV
DVB Cornwall
Here's the link to this month's Ofcom Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin with its forensic examinationof the circumstances within -

OFCOM.ORG.UK
11-Sep-2017 @ 15:11
BR
Brekkie
No surprise considering that was a major **** up - but bet the press who get away with such things on an almost daily basis will have a field day with it.
bkman1990 and AlexEdohHD13 gave kudos

17 days later

DV
DVB Cornwall
Hearing that the required Ofcom explanation might have been aired tonight.
LJ
Live at five with Jeremy
Mistakes can happen. C4 corrected the story soon after reporting it. End of story.

What the BBC did with Cliff Richard was much much worse than this minor faux pas.
AE
AlexEdohHD13
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
Mistakes can happen. C4 corrected the story soon after reporting it. End of story.

What the BBC did with Cliff Richard was much much worse than this minor faux pas.

Agreed!
CH
chris
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
Mistakes can happen. C4 corrected the story soon after reporting it. End of story.

What the BBC did with Cliff Richard was much much worse than this minor faux pas.


The BBC Cliff Richard story was more to do with tone rather than accuracy. The on-air apology was demanded because of the number of inaccuracies over recent years, not just this one incident.

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