ABSTRACT
The range of broadcast news output now runs from brief headline reads on radio to 24-hour news channels on TV, with downloaded news content, podcasts and mobile phone services in between. Most news programmes are not full of exclusives. Much of the news agenda is predictable. That is why headlines, teases and striking audio or images are presented in a way that will keep viewers and listeners tuned in. The BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones wrote in his blog that Sky News on the iPad went further than anything he'd seen in delivering a television news service crafted for a tablet computer. In a world of instant access to news, the traditional news programme might seem like a curiously twentieth-century phenomenon. The influence of Sky News on the rest of the UK's news broadcasters could not have been illustrated more dramatically than at the end of the trial of the pop star Michael Jackson for alleged sex offences in 2005.
