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From: Gary R. Schmidt on 4 Jun 2010 07:18 Hunter wrote: > How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most countries > now have a government funded online news service? Our is news.abc.net.au > and they will never charge for it. > > Might as well ask - "How do commercial news *television* programs, or radio, for that matter, survive?" Cheers, Gary B-)
From: Hunter on 4 Jun 2010 09:39 "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt(a)acm.org> wrote in message news:914nd7-o8b.ln1(a)paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au... > Hunter wrote: >> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most countries >> now have a government funded online news service? Our is >> news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it. > Might as well ask - "How do commercial news *television* programs, or > radio, for that matter, survive?" > Ads pay a lot more on TV.
From: terryc on 4 Jun 2010 10:21 On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:11:19 +1000, Hunter wrote: > How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most > countries now have a government funded online news service? Our is > news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it. Quality, being original and first. The ABC news is all regurgitated feeds from elsewhere.
From: terryc on 4 Jun 2010 10:24 On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:40:38 +1000, Rod Speed wrote: > Yes, but it remains to be seen how much they will choose to spend on say > showing up at interesting trials for long times etc. I had the impression that the crews were not actually ABC news crews, but more likely some program collecting image for a future program.
From: terryc on 4 Jun 2010 10:26
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:15:41 +1000, Hunter wrote: > Apparently they are not doing well and they are talking about starting > to charge for use. Given the quality of online newspaper content now, I'll pass. |