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The best 24 hours news channel for a waiting room?
pinkteddyx64
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If you owned a business which dictated the need for a waiting area at reception, ie a small clinic or training centre and you was going to have a TV in the corner playing a 24 hour news channel, which news channel would you have playing. Before anyone says "whats the point in having a news channel on in these enviroments" I have seen them in my local hospital, in many of the waiting areas and the A&E waiting room. It could be useful to keep everyone up to date with things in case something terrible was to happen like a disaster equivalent to 9/11 or if some famous person dies.
Which news channel would you have playing? 110 votes
BBC News
65%
72 votes
Sky News
34%
38 votes
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I would yes. Seems you have a bias opinion though judging by your smiley..
For the business people you should have CNBC It's the channel I would pick if I had a business with a waiting room. However if anyone in the waiting room didn't want CNBC I would put on CNN.
That's fairly similar in Ireland too. My university student bar often has Sky News on and I've been in hotels where they also have it on. Rarely see BBC News on. I did see CNBC in a hotel bar once but I figured they must have known I was coming
When a major event happened the Spanish bars tended to switch to Sky, during the tube attacks for example
Most 24 hour news channels in a public place have no volume in them so you would want the one without ads as you dont know how much time u have in the waiting room. Consequently BBC news 24 wins
Yeah, this, purely for the no ads reason.
I would choose Sky News as there's more graphics which is useful in an environment where you would have very low sound level or none at all. Also more interesting screens. BBC is very drab.
However as to which to show, is subjective. I get the feeling talking at work, some of the young ones prefer Sky, as it is a brand they associate with sport (which they like/desire), when Sky Sports News was FTA, often if say the BBC had Athletics. Golf or Tennis live they would prefer watching SSN talk about football transfers than watch sport.
I still feel that the BBC is more relevant if you want to know about the UK with it's network of regional/local news supply. In the BBC East region, Norwich may supply to network reporters in advance for a feature, but with reporters having access it seems to the TV network fr5om other BBC local radio news rooms, is something happens in Luton they have people who know the area, something that Sky cannot offer.
So in these polls, to me is it is always what does the consumer want? Sky has the colourfull graphics, the yellow/blues etc the BBC's reds/blacks look less pleasing, eye catching. But strip the imiagary what is the actual content?
Yes, because if I'm in A&E, the thing I most want to see is news about other people dying...
Agreed. I tend to watch Sky News more, but if I owned a business, the channel without the adverts would be a better choice to keep my customers entertained.
FWIW, a nearby Tesco Metro always has Sky News on above the self-check-out queues. Visually it does seem to jump out a bit better than BBC.
Don't think there's a life insurance advertising channel yet but there's the Ocean Finance channel if you wanted to show that
It's hardly the last thing people would want to see, which is why many businesses do in fact choose to broadcast it where their customers can watch it.
Sky News has won news channel of the year at the Royal Television Society awards on numerous occasions. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's not without merit.
As for business in general, I am sure customers will be thrilled to see that the company keeps prices low, but only so low as to be able to afford a Sky subcription.
If you are not having the volume on, Sky is better as it puts some of the key points on the banners, so it's easier to follow.
Subtitles on rolling news channels are hilarious. I wouldn't bother as they are like preditctive text...usually the wrong word.
London mainline stations use Sky on the concourse. I've seen a Bloomberg screen outside Waterloo station in the past, but not too sure if it's there now.
When I visited a publishers in Canary Wharf, they had Sky News on and depending on the place, it's been either Sky News or SSN.