When read, this sounds like Twenty-four [pause] hour news channels. Whereas what was meant was Twenty-four-hour news channels – a three-word adjective modifying news channels.
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‘Ofcom, PM and 10,000 complaints pile pressure on BBC over prank call’, The Guardian, 29 October 2008, p. 1
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