ThatSowislander 52 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Looks like we all will have to pay to view Newscorp's news services, inculding their TV news sites. Wonder what the future for the O&O's web presence will be with this new policy. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/06/tech/cnettechnews/main5220092.shtml Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1919 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 This idea will be put into place one day and taken off the next. Plus, unless they go ad-free, I'm sure some will be mad that they're paying for a service that is still covered in slow-to-load advertisements. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-52963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrtraveler01 738 Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 This idea will be put into place one day and taken off the next. Plus, unless they go ad-free, I'm sure some will be mad that they're paying for a service that is still covered in slow-to-load advertisements. I can understand if newspapers do it (although I don't agree with it) but if TV stations start to do this, their traffic will drop greatly. I for one am not going to pay to surf on a TV news site when I can just watch it for free on TV. As far as newspapers, it never worked before. The Columbus Dispatch tried it for a while but now their back to a free format so I guess it didn't turn out to be profitable for them. Hope the newspapers can figure out a way to make a buck. BTW: Who in their right mind would pay to read the New York Post online? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A3N 1002 Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Stupid, plain and simple. Let's hope that Rupert's plan blows up in his face, maybe that will be the motivating factor for him to move to a retirement home and disappear for good. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jero23 105 Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Oh well, but just watch it's going to fail epically. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSSZNews 1052 Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 This kind of has to work for a lot of the TV stations to survive. If advertising rates don't recover on the TV end, that has to at least be attempted to be made up somewhere. Consider this, 10 or 15 years ago, newspapers weren't online and most were still paying to read their daily print editions. Now that newspapers are online, offering their content for free, the subscriptions are waning, and revenue is wayyyy down. See: The New York Times, Gannett, and the now ill-fated Rocky Mountain News. Simple business dictates that the free Internet model for any media outlet, let alone Fox, cannot sustain itself for much longer without big problems. So, unless you WANT to see TV news dive even further down in terms of resources or you want it to be how it is in Australia where channel 10 hubbed ALL Adelaide news--not just some off-air stuff--out of Melbourne...you will be paying up in some way--even in the form of a bigger cable bill, should the networks start demanding carriage fees from cable companies. There is evidence other big media outlets (or at least those at the top of them) are considering some components of these, so a consortium of those big media minds may collectively pull the trigger. -T Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53045 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieboy247 42 Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Stupid' date=' plain and simple. Let's hope that Rupert's plan blows up in his face, maybe that will be the motivating factor for him to move to a retirement home and disappear for good.[/quote'] Yeah, It is stupid. AND IT SUCKS!!! Way to go Rupert. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsJunkie247 1 Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 What a terrible move. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Capitano 4 Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 "(Shiver me timbers) We intend to charge for all our news Web sites, (ARRRRRR). If we're successful, we'll be followed by all media (Matey)." We be walking the plank if ol' Jolly Rupert gets his way. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewitness_news 5 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 This means Fox will become the NEW HBO. WTF?! Watch cable companies drop the Newscorp-owned networks left and right. This is just another one of Rupert's hairbrained tricks he's got under his sleeve. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 596 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 This means Fox will become the NEW HBO. WTF?! Watch cable companies drop the Newscorp-owned networks left and right. This is just another one of Rupert's hairbrained tricks he's got under his sleeve. If you read the article it does not specify cable network outlets. That would be dumb anyway... I can see people paying for FNC and FX (if it cuts out the commercials) but not Fox Reality. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SterlingNorth 33 Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Unless every single news site goes to a pay-per-view service....people will just go onto someone who provides news for free. Don't you think that he didn't think of that.... Murdoch's "Chief Digital Officer" (gag) Jonathan Miller is trying to put together a "consortium that would charge for news distributed online," the Los Angeles Times reports. Read: A content cartel. Miller is trying to recruit the New York Times Company, Washington Post Comany, Hearst and Tribune as charter members. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SterlingNorth 33 Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 And the lobbying continues. . . James Murdoch, the heir to his father Rupert's global News Corporation empire, last night accused the BBC of undertaking a "chilling" land-grab of the media that posed a "serious and imminent" threat to the future provision of news in Britain. Murdoch Jnr, who is News Corp's chairman and chief executive for Europe and Asia, warned that the dominance of the BBC risked creating the type of news media which George Orwell described in the novel 1984. "As Orwell foretold, to let the state enjoy a near-monopoly of information is to guarantee manipulation and distortion," he said. It's oddly humorous... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabceyewitness 825 Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 The mistake all the media outlets made was offering the content for free online in the first place. Newspapers should have never offered content for free online when they had people for that same content for last 200 years. Television stations should have never offered their reporting and video for free online when they had people glued to television at certain points in the day which, in turn, translated into higher advertising revenue. Web advertising is a minuscule form of income for television and newspapers. Advertisers don't pay much because the eyeballs aren't on the screen nearly as long as they are if the content was being watched on TV or read in a newspaper. Paying for news is the way to go -- and the way it's always been. In the past, you paid for the morning newspaper. You pay to watch "free" television in the form of sitting through advertisements and you pay for cable news channels through your monthly cable subscription fee. You can't have good, quality journalism and get it for nothing in return. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SterlingNorth 33 Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I agree with that last sentence, but not quite with anything that leads up to it. The newsstand price of a newspaper or magazine has never, ever come close to paying for the content therein. The advertising model is built upon a hereforth-til-now unquestioned fiction that audiences were captive enough to pay attention to advertisements. Essentially all the internet has done (with emphasis on click-through rather than impressions) was show how great that fiction was. Likewise, with TiVo and other DVRs, the most lauded feature of those devices are being able to skip through commercials. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5643-newscorp-will-start-an-charge-for-view-service/#findComment-53666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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