The Newsroom

Michael Jackson 1958-2009

News coverage of his death (June 2009)

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roxuk
breakingnews posted:
Burley isn't good at ceremonial occasions - Martin Stanford or Jeremy Thompson should have been sent out. Sky's contributors are pretty awful as well - people from newspapers you've never heard of that can barely string more than 10 words per sentence.


You've never heard of the LA times? But yes they weren't great guests but I'd imagine there was a shortage...
RO
roo
roxuk posted:
breakingnews posted:
Burley isn't good at ceremonial occasions - Martin Stanford or Jeremy Thompson should have been sent out. Sky's contributors are pretty awful as well - people from newspapers you've never heard of that can barely string more than 10 words per sentence.


You've never heard of the LA times? But yes they weren't great guests but I'd imagine there was a shortage...


Yes, there's always a shortage of American nobodys willing to talk absolute sh*te on TV at short notice.
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excel99
Rating success for everyone it seems

BBC2 averaged 4million
Five averaged 1.2 million
Sky News averaged 919,000 and peaked at over 1million giving them their largest peak audience since the start of the Iraq War
Sky Arts peaked at 143,000, it's best performance so far this year

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/ratings/jackson-tribute-seen-by-78m/5003310.article
BR
Brekkie
It hit other shows too - EastEnders only got 4.7m viewers, that's a million less than last week when it was shunted to BBC2 when 10m watched the Murray match.

BTW, what kind of radio coverage did it get? I assume Radio 1 or 2 covered it.
BR
breakingnews
roxuk posted:
breakingnews posted:
Burley isn't good at ceremonial occasions - Martin Stanford or Jeremy Thompson should have been sent out. Sky's contributors are pretty awful as well - people from newspapers you've never heard of that can barely string more than 10 words per sentence.


You've never heard of the LA times? But yes they weren't great guests but I'd imagine there was a shortage...


BBC 2 had Paul Campaigno (excuse the spelling, the well known dj and general music expert). His contribution was far better than all of Sky's put together.
JA
jamesmd
I think you mean Paul Gambaccini.
NG
noggin Founding member
excel99 posted:
Rating success for everyone it seems

BBC2 averaged 4million
Five averaged 1.2 million
Sky News averaged 919,000 and peaked at over 1million giving them their largest peak audience since the start of the Iraq War
Sky Arts peaked at 143,000, it's best performance so far this year

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/ratings/jackson-tribute-seen-by-78m/5003310.article


Anyone know how BBC HD did?
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SN2005
breakingnews posted:
Burley isn't good at ceremonial occasions - Martin Stanford or Jeremy Thompson should have been sent out. Sky's contributors are pretty awful as well - people from newspapers you've never heard of that can barely string more than 10 words per sentence.


What about the LA times?
Your post would actually have some meaning too if 'The Huffington Post' were an actual newspaper. It is in actual fact a highly successful news website, worth some $5m. In the USA it is widely seen as a template for the future of journalism, combining the different areas of blogging, news aggregation and investigation journalism. At a recent Obama press conference the website had the second question - of any news organisation.
You may not have heard of it luvey, but then again that is a reflection on you at the end of the day.
BR
breakingnews
SN2005 posted:
breakingnews posted:
Burley isn't good at ceremonial occasions - Martin Stanford or Jeremy Thompson should have been sent out. Sky's contributors are pretty awful as well - people from newspapers you've never heard of that can barely string more than 10 words per sentence.


What about the LA times?
Your post would actually have some meaning too if 'The Huffington Post' were an actual newspaper. It is in actual fact a highly successful news website, worth some $5m. In the USA it is widely seen as a template for the future of journalism, combining the different areas of blogging, news aggregation and investigation journalism. At a recent Obama press conference the website had the second question - of any news organisation.
You may not have heard of it luvey, but then again that is a reflection on you at the end of the day.


They're contributors weren't good.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
lateshowuk posted:
Larry the Loafer posted:
Annoyingly, every attempt I made at recording the memorial failed; everything was cut off bar one recording in which I merely ran out of space; and only a few minutes remained. Is it likely that this will appear on Sky Anytime?

The BBC Two programme is on iPlayer;

Part 1 - www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ltzjb (available now)
Part 2 - www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lv8y2 (coming soon)


It's now been pulled. Apparently it was only available until 6pm on Wednesday, assuming it didn't turn up on iPlayer until, say, 10pm, it was only there 20hrs despite being advertised as the usual 7 days. Nobody's happy on the iPlayer message boards either about it.
JC
JonathanC
There seems to be no repeat rights granted to broadcasters, which may explain it.
BH
Bvsh Hovse
JonathanEx posted:
There seems to be no repeat rights granted to broadcasters, which may explain it.


IIRC only 45 second clips to be rerun without getting additional rights clearence.

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