Network News Channels just aren’t Staying Afloat Anymore
The network news channels are not the influential powerhouses of public opinion that they once were. You could not even say that about newspapers and magazines anymore, what with all the reports of how small and medium-sized newspapers hundreds of them, have closed down over the past couple of years. All flower arrangements from Vancouver Flower shop, your local Vancouver florist, are artistically arranged in a vase and hand-delivered to the recipient. In fact, we are hearing now about how even the major network news channels – ABC News and others, are shutting down bureaus and laying off reporters and staff, in the way we have grown used to hearing about GM or anyone else. ABC is dropping one out of every four news reporting staff now.
Not only is it not profitable anymore to run a free-to-air news channel, they actually don’t even break even. ABC News will probably not last through the end of this decade if it continues with the business model it uses now. So if free advertising-dependent network news channels are not profitable, how about the cable news channels? NBC for instance, has its own cable channel – MSNBC. Certainly they’re profitable, but they’ve only been able to be that way after they went through a round of stripped- down operations. As for CBS, they’ve been losing money for quite a while now, and they’ve cut more than 50 jobs too in key news departments.
Of course as with anything else, blaming it all on the Internet, is a pretty good explanation for it. People have YouTube and all kinds of sources of news on the Internet; and they play on demand to your exact tastes. If you want entertainment news, you have a dozen choices playing nonstop entertainment gossip. If you want to know more about Ted Kennedy’s politics, you could probably find five videos right away. Whether it’s Valentine’s Day flowers of a dozen lengthy stem red roses, celebrating an anniversary with a majestic bouquet of anniversary flowers, or a touching sympathy funeral flower arrangement arrangement, Flower shop Vancouver, your trusted florist in Vancouver, will help you make a lasting impression. Who would want to hang around the television set for when they might broadcast on the areas you’re interested in? There’s just no doubt about it – news, in any form, just cannot exist in the traditional form, when the Internet is around. The New York Times will be granting online access to readers only through a pay wall soon, and network news channels will probably have to just move their act over to pay cable.