Meet BBC America!
p2pnet news | TV:- Many US networks claim a worldwide reach, but, it’s mostly just talk compared to the resources of the BBC.
Heresy! And it springs from the lips of an American – CBS News veteran Rome Hartman!
Associated Press has him saying CNN comes closest with its international staffing, but “if you look at what CNN broadcasts to an American audience, the appetite for world news on a daily basis for the domestic network is really quite limited”.
Nonetheless, the Beeb still fell short, apparently, and to remedy that, Hartman was hired as executive producer of BBC World News America on BBC America.
BBC America!?!
It starts today and is available in about half of the Britain’s TV homes, says the story, with parts of the newscast will also being seen on PBS stations that regularly air Beeb news material.
“I came to the BBC, after 24 years as a producer for CBS News in the US, to launch a new nightly news programme presented from Washington DC by veteran BBC reporter Matt Frei and to air on BBC World, BBC America, and in the wee hours of the morning on News 24,” says Hartman in a BBC post.
Hartman was executive producer of the nightly CBS newscast and was, “instrumental in reconfiguring the CBS Evening News when anchor Katie Couric joined the network in September 2006,” says MediaWeek, adding:
“This spring, Hartman moved into an advisory role after CBS brought on former MSNBC president Rick Kaplan to helm the nightly newscast.
“The decision to replace Hartman came as Couric failed to deliver on the promise of her debut newscast, which delivered 13.6 million viewers. Shortly thereafter, CBS slid back into third place.”
Also See:
Associated Press – BBC to premiere an American newscast, September 30, 2007
BBC – Confessions of a BBC rookie, September 24, 2007
MediaWeek – Hartman Joins BBC to Develop Newscast, June 11, 2007
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October 1st, 2007 at 5:40 am
this sucks.
too much americanization. they push football, basketball, baseball, and cheerleaders on europeans. we don’t want it.
stay on your side of the pond. keep to your own culture and stop messing with european cultures.
we gave you BBC America IN America. isn’t that enough? we didn’t ask for it back yet. don’t shove it back at us.