André in Zuid-Afrika
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Your favourite news channelI like to watch Sky. CNN is just too loud, the BBC is somewhat boring, as is CNBC. We recently got EuroNews, which I really like, and Russia Today is pretty good as well.
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Liz
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Re: Your favourite news channel | André in Zuid-Afrika wrote: | | I like to watch Sky. CNN is just too loud, the BBC is somewhat boring, as is CNBC. We recently got EuroNews, which I really like, and Russia Today is pretty good as well. |
When I'm watching CNN I always get the feeling that the newsreaders/announcers/reporters will never finish their sentences. 
CNBC is extremely boring, especially CNBC Europe. What's more, any time I switch it on there are two irritating anchorpersons who have excrutiating tones and are a torture to listen to. I don't know why but I haven't seen anyobody apart from these two...
BBC is tolerable, apart from a few horrible newsreaders and reporters. I particularly "like" interviewers...They tend to have verbal diarrhea to an extent that I usually assume them to be the ones who are being interviewed. 
Hungarian news channels are biassed (bi-arsed?) to the extreme. All of them claim to be impartial, though. 
TV5 -- newsreaders have a peculiar penchant for wearing blue all the time for some unknown reason. Even the background is blue.
I can't remember what the name of the Russian channel was that I used to watch some years ago. They often had technical problems which usually resulted in the anchorperson shouting at the poor reporter who didn't hear anything. 
Not to mention German news channels...at least I understand what they say as every second word they utter is in English. 
Okay, sorry...I think you don't expect it to be a "news channels rants" thread. 
PS: Sky was really good. Unfortunately, we don't have it anymore. I loved the guy who once pronounced "Debrecen" (a Hungarian town) with an "i" and a "K".
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André in Zuid-Afrika
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Re: Your favourite news channel | Liz wrote: | | André in Zuid-Afrika wrote: | | I like to watch Sky. CNN is just too loud, the BBC is somewhat boring, as is CNBC. We recently got EuroNews, which I really like, and Russia Today is pretty good as well. |
When I'm watching CNN I always get the feeling that the newsreaders/announcers/reporters will never finish their sentences.
CNBC is extremely boring, especially CNBC Europe. What's more, any time I switch it on there are two irritating anchorpersons who have excrutiating tones and are a torture to listen to. I don't know why but I haven't seen anyobody apart from these two...
BBC is tolerable, apart from a few horrible newsreaders and reporters. I particularly "like" interviewers...They tend to have verbal diarrhea to an extent that I usually assume them to be the ones who are being interviewed.
Hungarian news channels are biassed (bi-arsed?) to the extreme. All of them claim to be impartial, though.
TV5 -- newsreaders have a peculiar penchant for wearing blue all the time for some unknown reason. Even the background is blue.
I can't remember what the name of the Russian channel was that I used to watch some years ago. They often had technical problems which usually resulted in the anchorperson shouting at the poor reporter who didn't hear anything.
Not to mention German news channels...at least I understand what they say as every second word they utter is in English.
Okay, sorry...I think you don't expect it to be a "news channels rants" thread. |
I kind of expected this also to be a "news channel rant"! Don't even get me started on the state controlled SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) newscasts! His Master's Voice....  Luckily we also have e-tv news (non-state)!
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Liz
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And my favourite local TV!!!! Local TVs are often "quality"...If you have some serious kind of speech impediment, you stand a good chance of being employed there! Alfo, fome people in Boodapeft TV have a ferious lifp. 
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Loic
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I think the BBC World Service is an authority on international events. However, I prefer to watch the local news channel CNA (Channel News Asia).
However, I do like the sport coverage of BBC Sport: the news broadcaster would always have something witty to say.
CNN Sport Readers always seem to be Latinos, does anyone realise?
I sometimes watch CCTV (Chinese Central Television) when I am really free. It is interesting to watch sanitised propoganda delivered in newsworthy soundbytes to the general audience. I pronounce their news to be generally fit for consumption as long as it is apolitical.
I never watch CNBC. When it comes to financial soundbytes, I'd rather read the Financial Times. I'd at least have the benefit of looking vaguely intelligent if I peruse the FT in public.
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Liz
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| loic wrote: | | I'd at least have the benefit of looking vaguely intelligent if I peruse the FT in public. |
Show-off.
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André in Zuid-Afrika
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| Liz wrote: | | And my favourite local TV!!!! Local TVs are often "quality"...If you have some serious kind of speech impediment, you stand a good chance of being employed there! Alfo, fome people in Boodapeft TV have a ferious lifp. |
With the SABC, if English is like, you know, your fifth language, they WANT you!!
On Namibian television, a news reporter reporting on a royal visit, referred to Queen Elizabeth's husband as the DUCK of Edinburgh...
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Liz
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| André in Zuid-Afrika wrote: | | On Namibian television, a news reporter reporting on a royal visit, referred to Queen Elizabeth's husband as the DUCK of Edinburgh... |
LOL!
One of ours pronounced Michael Jackson's name in the French way -- Michel Jacques-son!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Joanne
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I don't like watching the news. I prefer reading it at my own pace in newspapers, magazines, or the internet -- not having it yelled and flashed at me on TV and radio..
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André in Zuid-Afrika
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| Joanne wrote: | | I don't like watching the news. I prefer reading it at my own pace in newspapers, magazines, or the internet -- not having it yelled and flashed at me on TV and radio.. |
I love you.... Reading the news in newspapers remains the best!
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Walker
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I don't have any foreign news channels. Like Joanne, I generally prefer to read the news. However, one good thing about having news yelled and flashed at you is that you'll get to hear and see the news whether you want to or not. When you're reading it's easy to skip the boring parts that don't interest you.
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Benjamin [inactive]
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I prefer either BBC news or Channel 4 news. I really don't like ITV news ('ITN') because it's very sensationalist, and it's never really occurred to me to watch Five news. I don't have access to any others.
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