News channel?

On 6 Nov, 12:53, "alan.holmes" wrote:
Is there a (free) news channel, broadcasting news all day?

Alan

BBC News Channel
Sky News
Sky Sports News

John

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 14:53:43h +0000, alan.holmes
despaired:
None of those are listed in the Radio Times, so I'll ask again, are
there any news channels on freeview and what channels are they?

All the stations which are available on "Freeview" are listed at

http://www.freeview.co.UK/freeview/Channels

Under "News", the stations listed are

* BBC News
* BBC Parliament
* Sky News
* Sky Sports News
* S4/C dau

The good news is that CNN Europe is apparently going to be available
on
the FreeView EPG sometime in January 2009.




CNN - the world according to America - is 'good' news.

Clearly they're not all locked up yet.


Euronews would be a far better option.


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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:42:14 +0000, Woody wrote:
CNN - the world according to America - is 'good' news.

You would prefer something without the liberal bias of CNN,
something "fair and balanced", like FOX NEWS perchance? ;+)

Euronews would be a far better option.

Actually France 24 would, surprisingly, be the best choice --
they make the BBC service look rather amateurish.

But we have to remember that this slot is a commercial slot
and only organisations with lots of money to bid for the slot
are are able to pay for carriage on the multiplex.

Furthermore, this service will not be 24 h on Freeview,
but only for a few hours when the other more important
services (shopping network or whatever) are off air.

"Woody" wrote in message
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CNN - the world according to America - is 'good' news.

Good grief, CNN is quite balanced. If you want bias try Fox. Anyway, if it
wasn't for the USA we'd all be talking in German and leftie rabble like you
would have been shot a long time a go. The free world owes the USA a massive
debt of gratitude. If it wasn't for the USA there wouldn't be a free world.
Half would be commie and half would be fascist.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Woody" wrote in message
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CNN - the world according to America - is 'good' news.

Good grief, CNN is quite balanced. If you want bias try Fox. Anyway,
if it wasn't for the USA we'd all be talking in German and leftie
rabble like you would have been shot a long time a go. The free world
owes the USA a massive debt of gratitude. If it wasn't for the USA
there wouldn't be a free world. Half would be commie and half would be
fascist.

Bill



For the first time Bill I am offended by your comment - 'leftie..' On
the contrary far from it.

I had the misfortune a couple of years ago to spend a week in a hotel in
Paris where the only two channels in English on the TV were BBC World
Service TV and CNN. World Service TV could just be a 15 minute tape
loop - it was so poorly edited and constructed that it was almost
impossible to watch. CNN on the other hand was very professionally
displayed, it was just so slanted to the US view of the world which is
very different from what we see of it. I would not go as far as to say
it was biased or dishonest but it was definitely one-sided and blatantly
ignored the reality in some areas.

I spent two nights in a hotel in Zurich last week and CNN was the only
channel in English, and I saw nothing to change my original viewpoint.

On the other hand Euronews - which we discovered whilst on holiday a
couple of years ago - shows much news about Europe and other parts of
the world that are just not considered newsworthy enough to be even
aired in the UK where had they happened here they would have been front
page news. I know which I would prefer to see in the slot.


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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

In message , J G Miller writes
On Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 14:53:43h +0000, alan.holmes despaired:
None of those are listed in the Radio Times, so I'll ask again, are
there any news channels on freeview and what channels are they?

All the stations which are available on "Freeview" are listed at

http://www.freeview.co.UK/freeview/Channels

Under "News", the stations listed are

* BBC News
* BBC Parliament
* Sky News
* Sky Sports News
* S4/C dau

The good news is that CNN Europe is apparently going to be available on
the FreeView EPG sometime in January 2009.

And he
http://www.tvtv.co.uk/tvtv/index.vm?lang=en
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Ian

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
Good grief, CNN is quite balanced. If you want bias try Fox. Anyway, if
it wasn't for the USA we'd all be talking in German and leftie rabble
like you would have been shot a long time a go.

At least the trains would run on time.

--
*Two wrongs are only the beginning *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"Woody" wrote in message
news
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Woody" wrote in message
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CNN - the world according to America - is 'good' news.

Good grief, CNN is quite balanced. If you want bias try Fox. Anyway, if
it wasn't for the USA we'd all be talking in German and leftie rabble
like you would have been shot a long time a go. The free world owes the
USA a massive debt of gratitude. If it wasn't for the USA there wouldn't
be a free world. Half would be commie and half would be fascist.

Bill



For the first time Bill I am offended by your comment - 'leftie..
Sorry about that. I was tired and emotional, as they used to say. I take it
back.

' On the other hand Euronews - which we discovered whilst on holiday a
couple of years ago - shows much news about Europe and other parts of the
world that are just not considered newsworthy enough to be even aired in
the UK where had they happened here they would have been front page news.
I know which I would prefer to see in the slot.

I haven't watched Euronews enough to know if it has any political or
regional bias. I like the 'No Comment' thing they do.

Bill

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
Good grief, CNN is quite balanced. If you want bias try Fox. Anyway, if
it wasn't for the USA we'd all be talking in German and leftie rabble
like you would have been shot a long time a go.

At least the trains would run on time.

My dad came back from Italy with a dog called Mussolini.

Bill

Woody wrote:

I had the misfortune a couple of years ago to spend a week in a hotel in
Paris where the only two channels in English on the TV were BBC World
Service TV and CNN. World Service TV could just be a 15 minute tape
loop - it was so poorly edited and constructed that it was almost
impossible to watch.

I agree with you there. Hotels carry it because they think it's a UK channel
for Brits, which it isn't. Many foreigners who I speak to about it either
think the same as the hotels, or they find it disparately dull, or they think
it's just a mouthpiece of the UK government. In short, no one can seem to be
bothered with it.

On the other hand Sky News is available in many international hotels, and is
of course too far the other way, being completely UK parochial.

I actually use a mix of Sky, CNN, and/or Euronews when away. I find more than
15 mins of any of them more than enough, but to be honest I don't travel
abroad to watch TV !


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Mark
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