News Channels



News Channels

The entry of other cable news channels changed the philosophies of news broadcasting. Other factors also had an impact on news shows. The audiences who watched the news were getting older. To draw a younger audience that was attractive to advertisers, the news had to become more "hip." A survey commissioned by PBS's News Hour found that Fox News, who already had made a name for entertainment and sports on its Fox Television station, knew how to attract the younger audiences. It also discovered that MSNBC had worked to provide talk show formats during the daytime hours to ...