With revolutions throughout the world and natural disasters in places like Japan, TV news budgets are quickly spending money to cover everything. A report came out recently showing how the foreign coverage may break the bank this year (read the article here).
One TV executive said that to send a crew and reporter oversees can cost tens of thousands of dollars each week. With so much breaking news overseas so far this year, there may be much more money to be spent to report the news in 2011. Read the article