I admit that I’m not some kind of a media expert, although I am watching TV for over 10 years now, I still know some things on “How does it really works,” and TV programming maybe one of them. In this edition, News channel will be my topic but I just wanted to point out that everything that I say in this blog are just suggestion and I am not forcing them to change or to be the same like others.
Like most of the world, they have a News channel and they may have one pattern in their programming… News are shown Every Hour or Every 15 minutes, just like the 3 big news channels, CNN International, BBC World and Al Jazeera English. And the Philippines have one too, and unfortunately we only have ONE… the ABS-CBN News Channel, also known as ANC, but unlike the most international news channels they have a different kind of programme and programme schedule and in fact these are the qualities of ANC:
• Their News Headlines last only for 05 to 10 minutes, if there’s any in the schedules…
• Most of their programmes are either some kind of a newshour but only at a certain times, 30 minute news update may not be usual…
• Bunch of documentaries that are shown on the main channel, ABS-CBN, and too much re-broadcasts…
• Most of the times, they simulcast with some cable channels including CNBC Asia and Al Jazeera English…
If you ask me, this is a bunch of baloney! If they ask me, these should not how a News channel looks like and actually… these are the only ABS-CBN produced News programmes for ANC on Weekdays: Gising Pilipinas (simulcast with DZMM TeleRadyo on its 1st hour), Umagang Kay Ganda (simulcast with ABS-CBN on it’s 4.5 hour), Mornings @ ANC (1.5 hours), Business Lately (1 hour), Dateline Philippines (1 hour), Take One (1 hour), another News Update (1 hour), The World Tonight (1 hour). Without the simulcast, then it only consist of 6.5 hours of News Updates (as far as I know)… But sometimes they still shove in a very long Senate hearing that doesn’t need that full coverage.
They claim that they are News 24/7, but the truth is THEY ARE NOT.
I really hope that they make some necessary changes, and also, which I think is the most important… BE ON TIME! They always start at either 10 to 15 minutes after the Top of the Hour, except ABS-CBN’s Umagang Kay Ganda, CNBC Cash Flow and Al Jazeera News (since they are live…).
But I guess we all have to wait, since it is the ONLY NEWS CHANNEL FROM THE PHILIPPINES… I hope there will be a “competition” so it will not be another case of the Monopoly. Will there be another one? Let’s just wait and see…
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