Bloomberg Television (DStv 411) that was the first 24 hour TV news channel to break the news about the earthquake in Japan on Friday just 6 minutes after it happened, is continuing to provide around-the-clock coverage of the human and economic toll of the natural disaster unfolding in the Asian country.
TV reporters Sara Eisen, Mike Firn and Margaret Conley are on the ground in Japan, covering what's at stake for the $1,1 trillion Japanese economy, as well as the fear and distress of a population increasingly worried about the mounting death toll, power outages and the possibility of nuclear meltdown at that nuclear power station near Fukushima.
Since Friday, Bloomberg Television's team of over 12 reporters and producers have been dispatched around the country, with Tokyo-based TV reporter Mike Firn reporting from Chiba - home of Japan's oil refineries and oil port - as well as near Fukushima nuclear plant. Bloomberg Television has also been making use of Bloomberg's more than 140 print reporters based in Tokyo. Two Bloomberg News reporters are currently stationed about 50 kilometers from the nuclear reactor sites.
