science

Reuters TV

Reuters TV is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Reuters TV rather than just read about it. In short: Reuters TV is a mobile video news service operated by the news organization Reuters. The service was available via several digital media players as well as the Reuters and Reuters TV apps and the Reuters TV website.

Key takeaways

Reuters TV belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Reuters TV to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Reuters TV from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Reuters TV is a mobile video news service operated by the news organization Reuters. The service was available via several digital media players as well as the Reuters and Reuters TV apps and the Reuters TV website. On Wednesday, January 15, 2020, Reuters removed their channel from Roku and the Apple TV App store. Live feeds from the service had also been available via Livestation before Livestation was shut down. Preparations for the service began in 2012 originally testing the concept on YouTube. The current service was announced in November 2014. The service was launched in 2015 and promoted as "Netflix for News" and features “curated but personalized news coverage” via short video reports. The service offers two services: “Reuters Now”, a constantly-updated customisable, skippable and downloadable news lineup of lasting between 5 and 30 minutes composed of story clips, and uninterrupted live feeds of global events. Reuters TV has both a U.S. and international version of the service, with news tailored to both. The stories are chosen by user's interests, time and location (for example, an American viewer is likely to receive a longer report of an American-related news story than a French viewer.) Originally costing 1.99 dollars a month, the service was made free in August 2015. In 2016, Reuters launched Reuters TV for publishers. In 2017, it was reported that Reuters TV had over 1 million viewers monthly, with users coming to the video service three times a week on average. On mobile devices, users spend an average of 12 minutes per session, while on streaming TV devices like Apple TV and Roku, the average time spent was 21 minutes per session when the service was available there.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Reuters TV

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Reuters TV claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Reuters TV before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Reuters TV ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Reuters TV

In research: Reuters TV appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Reuters TV in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Reuters TV is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Internet properties established in 2015, Internet stubs, Internet television channels, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Reuters TV outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Reuters TV in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Reuters TV means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Reuters TV out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Reuters TV in simple terms?

Why does Reuters TV matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Reuters TV?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Reuters TV.