Say Hello To The ‘Tellygraph’

Seven online TV programmes are being made available on the Daily Telegraph’s website.

On the site so far is TTV News - featuring videos reporting on headline stories such as Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s visit to China.

And the service is already proving its worth after the Telegraph was the only national newspaper-affiliated website to have its own branded video footage of yesterday’s crash landing drama at Heathrow, with an accompanying voiceover from a Telegraph reporter.

The programmes are the result of a partnership with ITN and further channels to be rolled out this month include a political TV series called Right On and a culture show, reports Journalism.co.uk.

Telegraph Media Group Digital Editor Edward Roussel says: “Our investment in Telegraph TV shows we are committed to the highest standards of editorial both in print and on the web.”

He adds: “The future of news on the web is in the combination of text, video and user-generated content. This development is a major step in that direction.”