Throng Special Report: New Zealand’s Evening News Overall Coverage
Throng New Zealand (www.throng.co.nz) recently surveyed four free-to-air local news bulletins in depth over a four week period: ONE News, 3 News, PRIME News - First at 5:30 and TVNZ News at 8.
In many areas the four bulletins were very similar but there were also some surprising differences. This summary focuses on overall comparisons between the bulletins and is the second of a series of releases comparing the news bulletins over this four week period.
How did the news bulletins compare for news, sport and weather coverage?
ONE News: 57% News, 27% Sport, 16% Weather
3 News: 65% News, 25% Sport, 10% Weather
PRIME: 59% News, 36% Sport, 4% Weather
TVNZ 7: 74% News, 15% Sport, 11% Weather