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Article: Media: The battle for rolling news For the first time, BBC News 24 has recorded better figures than Sky News - or has it? As an inquiry into the BBC channel reaches its conclusion, TIM LUCKHURST investigates the conflicting claims
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2002
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Roger Mosey, head of television news at the BBC, is bullish about
his much-criticised digital news channel, BBC News 24. He admits that
it had "a slow and difficult birth" - even corporate insiders were
sceptical. "With the virtue of hindsight," Mosey acknowledges, "we
did not convince enough people internally about the need for News 24.
That gave us two or three years of real hostility, but now we are
accepted."
Confidence is particularly high with the publication of the latest
Barb (British Audiences Research Board) viewing figures. They suggest
that, for the first time since its launch in November 1997, News 24
is reaching more viewers than its older, commercial rival, Sky News.
The ...