Cable News Networks Versus Broadcast Networks

Cable News Networks Versus Broadcast Networks
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Cable television refers to a system, which provides certain channels to consumers using cables transmitting radio frequency signals. On the other hand, broadcast networks refer to the system where consumers receive various channels directly to their televisions through the air. Nowadays, people prefer cable networks to broadcast ones. This is mainly because cable networks deliver high quality pictures and sound as compared to broadcast networks. Although cable TV is costly to the consumer people, prefer them because of their quality. Over the past decades, cable news networks have increases exponentially. Unlike broadcast networks that depend on advertising as their main source of revenue, these cable networks benefit from subscriber fees and advertisement money. The aim of this paper is to compare newscast on cable and broadcast networks based on various factors.
This paper will look at news broadcasted by CNN, which represents cable TV and CBS, representing broadcast networks. The first story under analysis is that of the Republican debate. This debate was the main story on CNN since they were the ones hosting it (Frucci, 2015). Therefore, it is quite understandable to claim that the amount of time given to this story by CNN was more than that given to it by CBS. However, despite CNN being the host of this debate, there is also a popular claim that networks have bias in news reporting. However, people never agree on whether the bias is liberal or conservative. Many citizens in the United States say that the prefer CNN or FOX news (both cable news networks) when seeking news or even information about politics or public affairs. When...