Sky News boss admits they have ‘ripped the costs’ out of broadcasting
Angelos Frangopoulos (on screen) with Parry Ravindranathan (left), Sompan Charumilinda (right middle) and Adam Najberg
CEO of the Australian News Channel Angelos Frangopoulos has told a conference in Hong Kong how the broadcaster has “ripped the costs” out of its broadcasting operations by having journalists cut their own stories and employing a minimal number of editors.
“We don’t have many editors. Journalists cut their own stories and operate the studio control rooms,” Frangopoulos told the room. “It looks like a traditional broadcast studio, but we’ve the ripped costs out of it. Every single person we employ has to be journalist or a content maker of some kind. This approach is the equaliser against the startups.”
The news boss made the comments at a session at the CASBAA pay-TV conference yesterday, in Hong Kong, on how the creators of the 24-hour news cycle – rolling news channels – can maintain their edge in the age of “always now”.
Well done… Murdoch and the LNP… Australia Network closed, and now a biased, 2nd rate profiteering “online” version is available.
shame.
Sky News?
That weird show with two staff who endlessly interview each other, bookended by funeral insurance ads?
Haven’t seen it in ages.
Yes – he’s ripped out the costs and along with the costs, the quality too. It’s worse than a dog’s breakfast of a channel – in fact, my dog refuses to watch!
The political coverage on Sky News with David Speers and others is great BUT it is so evident that the network spends zero dollars on production. It all looks embarrassingly cheap; like it has been filmed in someone’s lounge room and put together using an amateur editing tool from the mid 90s.
Wow, just wow. The LNP is but a puppet to the Murdoch empire. Media-politico collusion is so blatant as to not even try and hide its methods any more. It’s time startups started to truly disrupt the corrupt agenda serving biases of mainstream media.
This also a nice follow up to Murdoch’s address to the G20, hosted by none other than treasurer Jo Hockey, where Murdoch took aim at Google, to try and persuade nations to bring in new laws to protect his empire: queue surveillance and metadata laws.
Frankly I think the people have had enough. Its time for the new media startups to up their game and take Murdoch and his corrupt self serving interests down.