Business Insider: Chart of the Day – US viewers ’still watch remarkably more video on TV than phones or online’

Business Insider’s Chart of the Day is a cheering one if you work in American TV.

According to US data from Neilsen:

“When looking at average time spent watching each, TV viewing actually grew more – per hour, per person, per month – over the last year than web video. Last quarter, the average US web video viewer watched 3 hours, 11 minutes per month, up about 1 hour each, year-over-year. But the average US TV viewer watched over 40X more video: 141 hours per month, up about 2 hours year-over-year.”

‘Chart Of The Day’ at this link.

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Broadcastnow.co.uk: How to be first with the TV news

Leading television journalists explain how they use new technical developments in their work. Full story...

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Mirror.co.uk: Selina Scott sues for age discrimination

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Independent: Response to Paxman’s middle-class white male comments

After Jeremy Paxman's comments that there's no hope for a middle-class white male to succeed in television, Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy has hit back. "I feel awfully sorry for white, middle-class men who went to Oxbridge (...) but I'm not sure they are the ones at the greatest disadvantage," he said. Full story...

Tags: Channel 4 News, Jeremy Paxman, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, television

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MediaGuardian: Lack of public support for BBC’s licence fee, suggest poll

An Ipsos Mori poll conducted by MediaGuardian suggests that 37 per cent of the public do not feel the licence fee is an 'appropriate' funding structure and 47 per cent do not think it is 'good value for money'. Full story...

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Yorkshire Evening Post launches online TV series

The Yorkshire Evening Post is to launch its own web-tv series investigating six haunted buildings in Leeds, writes Sinead Scanlon for Journalism.co.uk.

A team from the Post will be joined by television medium Barrie John and ‘paranormal investigator’ Lynne Robinson, a press release from Johnston Press said.

The paper is hoping to appeal to an international online audience with the series, which will also be hosted on a separate website hauntedleeds.co.uk.

“This series represents the opportunities the web has given newspapers like ours. With this series, we’re hopefully going to show what can be achieved by pushing our own relatively modest understanding of video to its limit,” said Geoff Fox, Yorkshire Evening Post’s digital editor and series producer.

“It’s a testament to the willingness of our staff to adapt and embrace modern technology to enable them to successfully explore new mediums outside the realms of print.”

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Times: BBC to offer rivals help developing news programmes

According to the Times, the BBC will present details today that will outline a plan to assist rival broadcasters develop TV programming, including news shows.

‘The BBC will propose sharing regional news resources, including non-exclusive footage, to help ITV with the costs of its regional bulletins, and it will tell commercial radio companies that it is willing to spend heavily to market digital radio and improve its network coverage from the existing 90 per cent,” says the Times article.

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Beet TV: TMZ using live web video streaming for celeb snooping – even in court!

The US celebrity tabloid ‘news’ TV show and website TMZ has started using mobile phone technology to live stream video of celebrity goings-on.

And it’s all a great success Alan Citron, general manager of TMZ tells Beet TV.

And the real crowd pullers?

A courthouse appearance by Hulk Hogan’s son and a two hour stream of a car park where Britany was expected to arrive.

‘Hypnotic effect’ of the car park kept viewers interested says Citron.

Glam – this celeb business.

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Video: No news from the BBC and ITV

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Press Gazette: BBC News opens multi-platform newsroom

News 24 Journalists and colleagues from radio and the TV news bulletins have become the first to move into the BBC’s new integrated newsroom and start work.

According to the Press Gazette, the first stage of the project was completed on Monday.

International and World News staff will be phased in over the next few weeks, along with journalists covering the text-based areas of the BBC News website.

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