The State Of News Content

Or… What you get out of an hour-long news broadcast.

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TL;DR¹

Have you ever wondered how much content that you actually get from a one hour bulletin? At first glance it looks like a good percentage:
- 54% News — around 32 minutes
- 9% Sport — around 6 minutes
- 4% Weather Reporting — around 2 minutes

But when you break it down further into actual news stories, it is much less:
- 42% News — around 26 minutes
- 7% Sport — around 4 minutes
- 4% Weather — around 2 minutes

I decided to delve further into the actual statistics behind what you would get out of the five free to air stations from a content perspective.

Table Of Contents

1. What You Get In an Hour (and for one station — half an hour)
↳ 1.1. Digging deeper
↳ 1.2. The content runtimes for each of the channels

What You Get In an Hour (and for one station — half an hour)

When looking at the content and the type of content from the five channels, it looks relatively healthy: