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Paterson, C.
Global battlefields: the globalization of news
Paterson, C., (1998) "Global battlefields: the globalization of news" from Boyd-Barrett, Oliver,
Globalization of news pp.79-103, London: Sage
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6 Global Battlefields
Television news pictures are provided to broadcasters worldwide by three
commercial news agencies and a variety of co-operative news exchanges
(the largest being Eurovision, based in Geneva). The television news agenciesare the audiovisual counterparts to the wire services, and in two of thethree cases (Reuters and Associated Press) are one and the same. Thesethree companies exercise considerable control over the world's televisionnews agenda, for most broadcasters have no other non-local sources forthese influential and ideological products - the visual component of TVnews. There has been little study of these companies, their processes ofnews selection and production, or the effect of this concentration of sources.
The three television news agencies which originate much of the internationaltelevision news used by most of the world's broadcasters are
Reuters Television, formerly Visnews, Worldwide Television News (FVTN),
formerly UPITN, and the relatively new Associated Press Television
(APTV). The television agencies, all based in London, gather videotaped
pictures and sound and story information continuously from a dozen or
more bureaux, a far larger number of stringers, and from client televisionstations worldwide. The largest, Reuters Television, claims 70 worldwide
bureaux and over 260 client broadcasters in 85 countries.' They also pull
stories from the European Broadcasting Union's (EBU) news exch