Thursday, November 1, 2007

LIVE, LIVE, LIVE

All the stations are now jumping on the "LIVE" bandwagon, with coverage of the COP meeting in Waterloo.
CNMG, WIN TV; IETV, Gayelle and IBN taking the feed from WIN.
TV6 recorded Winston Dookeran's speech from CNMG and carried it delayed following their 10pm news.
Only CNC 3 and Synergy did not carry any political meeting.
TV6 there was a scrolling promo running across your screen with some serious spelling problems. Media Watch is not sure if that came with the package from CNMG, but it was awful.
Anmarie Scott, Wood Brook Playboyz, St Margret's Junction.

AND kudos to Synergy TV for that one hour interview with Prime Minister Patrick Manning on Wednesday evening.
Jason Williams spoke with Mr Manning, along with UNC A Leader Basdeo Panday and COP Leader Winston Dookeran (separately of course).
But the question we need to ask is, how come Mr manning chose to go on a cable station with limited viewership yet he has not appeared for a one on one interview with any of the national stations? Did anyone even try to get him to come on? We have seen Mr Panday and Mr Dookeran making the rounds of the national stations, but not the PM.
Well it is a strategy for Mr Manning to address youth voters who probably mainly look at Synergy. But it may not have been Jason's charm that led the PM to Synergy, since a member of the PM's cabinet has shares in the station.
But however it played out, the national stations need to ask themselves what they did wrong.