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BBC World News in the U.S.
- Thread starter JayR
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I noticed that my Dad, who has Cablevision, gets BBC World News, as well as something called EuroNews, which is just as its name suggests, round-the-clock European News. While on vacation in Puerto Rico, I noticed the San Juan cable system also carried BBC World News.
Yet my Dad doesn't get BBC America, which is the BBC channel that is carried on many more cable systems in the U.S. BBC America simulcasts a few hours of news with BBC World News, but has BBC dramas and comedies the rest of the schedule.
I'm not sure why Cablevision has chosen these two services, yet doesn't have things like CNN International or Fox Business or BBC America. BBC World News is an excellent news service... especially in this day where even CNN Headline News (or as it now likes to call itself, HLN) doesn't do newscasts most of the time. Once upon a time, you could get a 30 minute newscast on HLN 48 times a day. But I guess viewers, especially young ones, just don't want to watch a newscast anymore.
In fact, in the evening, nobody does newscasts. CNN, Fox and MSNBC are mostly opinion political shows, and HLN is a mix of all sorts of programs. So if you want to just see a newscast, I guess your only real choice after 5pm ET, with a few exceptions, is BBC World News.
Or if you get it, there's EuroNews, although I'm not sure I want a news channel that ONLY does European News. And it's pretty low budget so it repeats the same stories over and over.
Gregg
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Yet my Dad doesn't get BBC America, which is the BBC channel that is carried on many more cable systems in the U.S. BBC America simulcasts a few hours of news with BBC World News, but has BBC dramas and comedies the rest of the schedule.
I'm not sure why Cablevision has chosen these two services, yet doesn't have things like CNN International or Fox Business or BBC America. BBC World News is an excellent news service... especially in this day where even CNN Headline News (or as it now likes to call itself, HLN) doesn't do newscasts most of the time. Once upon a time, you could get a 30 minute newscast on HLN 48 times a day. But I guess viewers, especially young ones, just don't want to watch a newscast anymore.
In fact, in the evening, nobody does newscasts. CNN, Fox and MSNBC are mostly opinion political shows, and HLN is a mix of all sorts of programs. So if you want to just see a newscast, I guess your only real choice after 5pm ET, with a few exceptions, is BBC World News.
Or if you get it, there's EuroNews, although I'm not sure I want a news channel that ONLY does European News. And it's pretty low budget so it repeats the same stories over and over.
Gregg
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JayR said:
And, they are about the only cable system in the US to carry BBC World - a station that is pretty standard cable fare elsewhere in the world. It's lack of distribution here has me scratching my head. Even in Canada, many cable systems carry both BBC World and BBC Canada (which is much like BBC America).
It's a headscratcher to me that, as Gregg pointed out above, Cablevision carries BBC World News and not the more popular, widely distributed BBC America, let alone Cablevision being the only cable system to carry BBC World News. Maybe Cablevision signed some kind of exclusive carriage deal for the States?
I assume the BBC World News seen on Cablevision has American commercials during the breaks? I'll have to check that out next time I'm at my Dad's house. If so, I guess it is available to any cable system in the U.S. that wants to pick it up, even though the only other cable system I know of carrying it is the one in San Juan, which is in a U.S. territory.
I believe when I watched BBC World News there, they carried typical U.S. commercials you'd see on low-viewership channels for products you could buy via an 800 number. Obviously 800 numbers don't work outside the U.S., its territories and the Caribbean. That's pretty much what you see when a U.S. cable system picks up CNN International. We don't see the international commercials.
Gregg
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I believe when I watched BBC World News there, they carried typical U.S. commercials you'd see on low-viewership channels for products you could buy via an 800 number. Obviously 800 numbers don't work outside the U.S., its territories and the Caribbean. That's pretty much what you see when a U.S. cable system picks up CNN International. We don't see the international commercials.
Gregg
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The BBC America network runs BBC World News for 3 hours in the morning, and BBC World News America at 7:00 PM, and again at 10:00 (a repeat of the 7:00, I think)
ajc_trw said:In a thread not that long ago (something about FOX reality) on a page not that far away ajc_trw wrote:
Verizon FiOS carries BBC World on channel 107 nationwide. Where you have VZ FiOS you have BBC WS.
You mean this?
ajc_trw said:
If there is one distributor that should carry BBC World it should be DISH Network. They carry plenty of foreign program networks. BBC World would be a great addition to the lineup.
ajc_trw said:In a thread not that long ago (something about FOX reality) on a page not that far away ajc_trw wrote:
Verizon FiOS carries BBC World on channel 107 nationwide. Where you have VZ FiOS you have BBC WS.
Verizon FiOS isn't available nationwide - it's only available in certain parts of the states within which Verizon is the primary landline provider. So, the northeast (basically from VA to MA - northern New England was sold to FairPoint Comm., CT is with AT&T) and a few pockets in other states. Of the 5 largest markets, FiOS is only available in one (New York); AT&T's U-Verse is offered in the other four.
So, my point about the very limited distribution of a channel that's a staple in much of the world still stands. As we've seen here in this thread, there's no law against Comcast offering it - so why not replace one of the umpteen crap channels on digital with it?
Gregg said:
Last time I saw CNNI was back when it was filler programming on CNN FN, the now-defunct business channel, which shown CNNI in evenings and weekends. All the commercials I have seen were either promos, 1-800 ads or PSAs. Don't know if the actual CNNI channel in the US have these or not.
DToTheJ said:
In its actual form, BBC World has no ads, only promos and filler shorts. This is more or less what Canadians see on the channel in Canada. In some parts of the world, paid ads are seen during the breaks, mainly added by the programming provider.
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