Saturday, July 13, 2013

Modern News a Huge Publicity Battle


           As much as the battle between morning and evening news stations increases the level of competition rises. Battling is a positive side in any aspect because it energizes, arouses, motivates and may result in better performance.  The negative thing is that there is always a looser.  For instance, Morning News “Good Morning America” and CBS’s Evening News, face huge competitive challenge in its struggle to attract more viewers for higher ratings. Previous researches have shown that the primary factor of the higher ratings depends on people’s meters and events occurred around us. Morning News “GMA” for the week April 16, 2007 had an extensive coverage of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech having 800,000 total viewers. Incredibly, the CBS’s Evening News with Katie Couric delivered just 6,570,000 viewers. When I mention rating is often referring to Nielsen Rating that measure the number of viewers of household tuned to a television program in a particular time during a week. This is done by calculating and dividing the number of viewers, or households by the total number of estimated available households, viewers, listeners possible. 
                 What I see is that rating recently to both news stations becomes up and down.  The fact of my being a broadcast journalist and interact within a week with newspapers and television, since both have the specific purposes I know the methods that are used to produce and present news in which are incredible. But I believe that the GMA in the future will not have the same audience as the CBS’s Evening News in which will continue to be the thrilling of American News since its money depends upon the size of the audience. Also for the future of CBS’s Evening News the owner has a huge appetite. He sees the news industry a huge profit in politics and the business and rating is the biggest concern since it brings employees both a huge profit in the politic and to the business. When I mention the owner of the big corporation meaning power and the money in which are found only to one democratic country as the U.S.A I mention the politic because I believe that the U.S’s democracy relies on people’s opinion and news stations are a great source to control the democracy of our country that is wealth, all well and good for people. Enormous profits are when the producer controls the consumers’ desire to buy. The president of this news station Sean McManus said in a statement, “I am more concerned for the year 2007, 2008, 2008 ratings than 2006. When it comes to competition CBS’s Evening News station struggle to have skills and therefore understand the likes of people and attitudes to manage well the business. Previous researches have shown that many viewers engage with this newscast for many reasons. The first reason is that viewers believe that this station gives them the news they need to know quickly. They before dinner watch news that happens during the day whereas the Morning News “Good Morning America” would not do.  For the reason that, CBS’s news station reporters stand in front of empty buildings to report news that happened there during the day having the ability to reach a huge audience of different ages.

                 Viewers love to see live reports. What's more, they are of different ages and most of them are female18-to 34 years that regardless of education or economic status spend more than any other age or group gender. Viewers also make or influence the major buying decisions in their household. The “GMA” viewers most of them are elderly and adore talented anchors Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts, who both have a voice that relates to the subject that they speak on. They both seem to have the desire to become the best that they can be by promoting a family environment that is by hiring celebrities, comedians, and politicians to attract these rating. But the thing is that this news station ‘Good Morning America” is more like entertainment show for the purpose of attracting higher ratings and has no real value in the way of learning news.  For the reason that, millions of young people rush to get at work early in the morning and really don’t have time to be hooked and watch the very interesting story that is going to be shown at the end of segment. Furthermore, viewers engage with CBS’s Evening News because they like presenters. The owner of CBS’s Evening News Station Corporations has and will anticipate in giving as millions of advertising dollars to presenters for a higher rating. One example is when CBS’s Evening News offered to Katie Couric to work as their news anchor of the most expensive salary to $ 10 million promotional campaign and with a $ 15 million annual salary which is the biggest story in network news of 2006. CBS’s Evening News collected $ 15 million in the first eight months of 2006, a 3% increase over the previous year. Projecting through the end of the year CBS’s Evening News would collect and estimated $ 172 million. Loyal viewers of Couric migrate from morning news to evening to watch Katie. The owner of this station will take care of this demand in the future. Let me tell you something. Let me take two people, the first person small, frail average looking and carries a little body fat, and the other person strong, well groomed, and good looking powerful body. Now, these two people are of equal intelligence, personalities and attitudes. The question is who would be the top presenter of this business? The best of course will be the person in the best shape because it is expected. Appearance of people is critical to the future of our nation. It has become more admirable and respectful. This has made viewers easier to drown to these people having these traits and listen more to what they say. This is very true because the feeling is the same for every other creature in the animal world. For example, larger wolves in a pack will eat first. Likewise, viewers are engaged to this news station because they have received worthy stories. They trust CBS’s specific news source that may be concerned of turning to called station of record. College students, and faculties, often record world stories related to their academic programs such as the politic, business, biology, anatomy and physic. There is no possibility to record them in the morning while are inside the class. Viewers also prefer how this news station packages and reports the news. Comparing these two news stations, I have analyzed the language of headlines from many points of view such as grammatically, and stylistically. Headlines are never puzzling and difficult to understand and this has a strong impact on viewers. I can distinguish these two news stations between headlines in which give the summary of the news story. CBS’s Evening News, use the right words and phrase to certain story in which has satisfied people. For instance, on January 8, 2007 the headline, “Genocide Charges Against Saddam Dropped” in its top story.


            That video was about how Iraqis might react to the U.S’s troop surge rather than about the genocide charges against Hussein. In short term, this station use a wide vocabulary and standards English. Besides, the owner of this station said that in the future he will make another giant step towards providing CBS’s Evening News content to people wherever they are, in their homes, in their offices, in their cars, on their computer or on their cell phones. This news station makes decision with electronic companies toward interested huge profit of both companies. Related to this, the apple company is releasing this fall an apple television channel.  It is because the old Ipod is not a complete substitute of television. I will be happy to have this new Ipod in my pocket when the television is not available. This new Ipod will help me to watch television programs in the same way I am at home sitting in front of my television. The apple television channel will bring new attention and the audience eventually will continue grow. For example, when i spoke for ratings I also did not count the viewers of prisons, restaurants and colleges. By having this new Ipod I will account them. Competition from the cable and the internet will never loss the television news audience. If I would be interested to watch to the cable television an event happening during the day I wouldn’t be able to concentrate myself to watch it for hours to this new Ipod. The reason why is because looking for hours to this new Ipod screen that is below television level for sure will cause eyes damage. Another reason is that disrupted environments where we will use Ipods would not let us concentrate ourselves for hours, so that this wouldn’t be the same as watching news that varies of fifteen minutes packages. To conclude, CBS’s Evening News will take care of their business by giving people the option to watch worthy news by grasping each other’s emotional support meant for satisfaction and a higher rating.








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