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SKY News increases coverage with Chinese broadcaster

News presenter John Mangos is gone at the same time as SKY increases its ties with Chinese broadcaster CCTV.

The firing of presenter John Mangos from SKY News comes at the time when its parent company Australian News Channel, has announced a significant expansion of its programming agreements with China’s state broadcaster CCTV, as well as the Shanghai Media Group.

CCTV and ANC have agreed to more broadcasts into each other’s markets. Both were already screening select content after deals in 2010 when ANC signed a reciprocal programming agreement with CCTV where SKY News programming is broadcast into China, and English-language programming from CCTV is broadcast on SKY News and A-PAC.

The new arrangement with CCTV includes a further increase in the exchange of programming and includes breaking news coverage between Sky News, CCTV News Channel and CCTV 4.

Australian News Channel is also bidding for the right to operate Australia Network, currently under consideration by Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.

The exit of Mangos may well remind us that in comedy, and politics, timing is everything.

6 Responses

  1. What were they thinking?
    How does a content-sharing deal with a propaganda-mouthpiece of the Chinese government give any credibility to Sky’s service? Maybe, they should also start screening programmes from Press TV (Iran), Russia Today and other equally credible broadcasters. What a joke.

  2. I don’t know how John Mangos lasted so long with sky news. I’m sure he’s a lovely guy and all that but he was just not a great newsreader.

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