The Future Of Television News Is Now. Are You Ready For It? Television news – which has played a crucial role in the world’s most
momentous events, from wars and royal wedding to mankind’s first steps on the
Moon – is in the midst of a digital-fueled revolution. In its early years, TV
news was monopolized by large corporations and state broadcasters who
controlled what went on air and when. Then technological advance in the 1980s
enabled billionaires like Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch to muscle in and beam
24-hour news channels across the world via cable and satellite. Today, we are
living through a third, turbulent iteration: streaming over the internet,
which is radically changing how television is produced, watched and
delivered. It has so dramatically lowered the coast of entry into what was
once the exclusive domain of governments, multinationals and tycoons that
almost anyone can now set up their own global news. Who and what can we
trust? In this stimulating and authoritative study, Zafar Siddiqi – who has
launched and run four news channels across three continents – discusses the
profound implications of this new are. Aimed at entrepreneurs, media
students, industry insiders and anyone interested in TV news and its effect
on humanity, it serves as a step-by-step guide for launching a news channel
in the digital age. They Say That Revolutions Do Not Come With A Manual. This
One Does. ‘If you think the digital revolution in news spells the end of the
24-hour TV channel, read this book and think again.’
