From: Gary R. Schmidt on
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

"Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt(a)acm.org> wrote in message
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> 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
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
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
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.