CO
BBC NI are running a Newsline special tonight at 10.35pm with coverage of The Twelfth.
They also had live coverage earlier today (with Walter Love!) which is now on iPlayer, the usual cameras stuck outside Broadcasting House set-up as every year. A clip of BBC NI's first coverage of The Twelfth from 1960 was shown during the live slot; with exactly the same camera angles, and the same warm sunny weather that seems to fall on the Twelfth each year! An unusual playout as well to BBC NI's live coverage, with a pipe band doing the Hokey Cokey* in the middle of Bedford Street.
Interestingly, UTV have two programmes on The Twelfth this year, the first tonight, for half an hour, also at 10.35pm, and the second, a twenty-minute programme, tomorrow at 6.00pm followed by a short UTV Live bulletin, which, along with the lunchtime and late news bulletins also scheduled means... wait for it... UTV actually have a local news service tomorrow!
UTV Live Tonight is now on its "summer break" until August, (as I imagine, so is Paul Clark) so it'll be five minutes bulletins with the CAs/whoever is Jules's newsreading-beeatch for a few weeks at 10.30pm.
* - And before you ask, no, they don't sing "Rah! Rah! Rah!" at the end of each chorus.
They also had live coverage earlier today (with Walter Love!) which is now on iPlayer, the usual cameras stuck outside Broadcasting House set-up as every year. A clip of BBC NI's first coverage of The Twelfth from 1960 was shown during the live slot; with exactly the same camera angles, and the same warm sunny weather that seems to fall on the Twelfth each year! An unusual playout as well to BBC NI's live coverage, with a pipe band doing the Hokey Cokey* in the middle of Bedford Street.
Interestingly, UTV have two programmes on The Twelfth this year, the first tonight, for half an hour, also at 10.35pm, and the second, a twenty-minute programme, tomorrow at 6.00pm followed by a short UTV Live bulletin, which, along with the lunchtime and late news bulletins also scheduled means... wait for it... UTV actually have a local news service tomorrow!
UTV Live Tonight is now on its "summer break" until August, (as I imagine, so is Paul Clark) so it'll be five minutes bulletins with the CAs/whoever is Jules's newsreading-beeatch for a few weeks at 10.30pm.
* - And before you ask, no, they don't sing "Rah! Rah! Rah!" at the end of each chorus.
GE
Did the report have dramatic music in the background as well??
In their ten-minute main bulletin this evening, UTV showed footage (or, as the lead-in sexed it up, "captured the moment") of the female police officer who was hit by fallen debris in the rioting last night, complete with "action replay" zoom in.
Guess who the reporter was.
Guess who the reporter was.
Did the report have dramatic music in the background as well??
CO
No, I think the dramatic music is only used on UTV Live Tonight reports; I think it undermines the "we want to be Newsnight" feel of the programme, but if the producers and head of News think it works...
At long last, I seem to be able to watch BBC Newsline via their site, so interesting to see BBC Newsline well and truly wiping the floor with Havoc House.
BBC Newsline lead: Vincent Kearney reporting on the Ardoyne rioting, focusing on the PSNI investigations into their actions and those of the residents.
UTV Live lead: Ratwoman and "terror on a train" on the Twelfth in Loor-gin.
BBC Newsline coverage on the build-up to the UK City of Culture announcement: Maggie Taggart live in Liverpool and Sarah Travers live in the Guildhall, with a Kieran Tourish package that included a cameo from Laura Doherty of Channel 9/Pop Idol/Reid sofa ads fame, who is now a dance tutor.
UTV coverage: Jar-Jar Clarke pre-recorded in Liverpool (Robofadden and another new pair of glasses covering the funerals on Inishowen, no sign of Mr Tayto aka Gareth Wilkinson... UTV Live... Dare-Ree.)
BBC Newsline coverage on Rory McIlroy on the Open: Stephen Watson live with an interview with the golfer.
UTV Live coverage: Hard to tell as the clip was edited out of the UTV Player version, but Rootwoman is covering the tournament.
For the past few days, UTV Live at lunchtime has been coming from Studio 1 again. And is Sara Moore, the presenter of that bulletin today, the love child of Carolyn Stewart? Similar deep BEL-FAAAST voice, similar skin tone.
(I'm sure I can come up with nicknames for all UTV reporting staff in time...)
Did the report have dramatic music in the background as well??
No, I think the dramatic music is only used on UTV Live Tonight reports; I think it undermines the "we want to be Newsnight" feel of the programme, but if the producers and head of News think it works...
At long last, I seem to be able to watch BBC Newsline via their site, so interesting to see BBC Newsline well and truly wiping the floor with Havoc House.
BBC Newsline lead: Vincent Kearney reporting on the Ardoyne rioting, focusing on the PSNI investigations into their actions and those of the residents.
UTV Live lead: Ratwoman and "terror on a train" on the Twelfth in Loor-gin.
BBC Newsline coverage on the build-up to the UK City of Culture announcement: Maggie Taggart live in Liverpool and Sarah Travers live in the Guildhall, with a Kieran Tourish package that included a cameo from Laura Doherty of Channel 9/Pop Idol/Reid sofa ads fame, who is now a dance tutor.
UTV coverage: Jar-Jar Clarke pre-recorded in Liverpool (Robofadden and another new pair of glasses covering the funerals on Inishowen, no sign of Mr Tayto aka Gareth Wilkinson... UTV Live... Dare-Ree.)
BBC Newsline coverage on Rory McIlroy on the Open: Stephen Watson live with an interview with the golfer.
UTV Live coverage: Hard to tell as the clip was edited out of the UTV Player version, but Rootwoman is covering the tournament.
For the past few days, UTV Live at lunchtime has been coming from Studio 1 again. And is Sara Moore, the presenter of that bulletin today, the love child of Carolyn Stewart? Similar deep BEL-FAAAST voice, similar skin tone.
(I'm sure I can come up with nicknames for all UTV reporting staff in time...)
CO
Interesting that BBC Newsline and UTV Live chose different locations on different sides of the Foyle for their live OBs tonight on Derry's success in the UK City of Culture 2013 bid: Donna Traynor exploring the site of Ebrington Barracks (and a wonderful report by Julian O'Neill about arts venues on the Waterside), and Marc Mallett on the walls at Guildhall Square.
CO
Another pathetic map graphic from UTV Live:
Couldn't they have just taken the less-than-a-second it takes to press the button on Google Maps called "Satellite"?
Or at least point out a more precise location of the National Park where the NI national drowned, rather than just dump a line of text in f***ing Arial over the top of the map?
I've seen better map graphics on YouTube mocks, and that's saying something.
Couldn't they have just taken the less-than-a-second it takes to press the button on Google Maps called "Satellite"?
Or at least point out a more precise location of the National Park where the NI national drowned, rather than just dump a line of text in f***ing Arial over the top of the map?
I've seen better map graphics on YouTube mocks, and that's saying something.
PE
If you look closely you can see the reflection of a different graphic underneath the map. More than likely their graphics department wasn't in and it was done via Google, Print Screen and a very dodgy title tool
peterrocket
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Another pathetic map graphic from UTV Live:
Couldn't they have just taken the less-than-a-second it takes to press the button on Google Maps called "Satellite"?
Or at least point out a more precise location of the National Park where the NI national drowned, rather than just dump a line of text in f***ing Arial over the top of the map?
I've seen better map graphics on YouTube mocks, and that's saying something.
Couldn't they have just taken the less-than-a-second it takes to press the button on Google Maps called "Satellite"?
Or at least point out a more precise location of the National Park where the NI national drowned, rather than just dump a line of text in f***ing Arial over the top of the map?
I've seen better map graphics on YouTube mocks, and that's saying something.
If you look closely you can see the reflection of a different graphic underneath the map. More than likely their graphics department wasn't in and it was done via Google, Print Screen and a very dodgy title tool
CO
Noticed this lunchtime, UTV ran a "slideshow" of photographs to add visuals to the reporter's copy from last night's Cliftonville v CSKA Sofia Europa League tie in Bulgaria.
Sadly, they used a transition between each still image which made it look very cheap.
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Sadly, they used a transition between each still image which made it look very cheap.
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CO
And speaking of sport, the results of the Jerome Quinn tribunal have finally been published.
Jerome, please, just give over now, fella.
Oh, and could UTV also give over about the sacked/reinstated ASDA employee? It's hardly headline-leading material or IMO a consequential story to keep following, and while I can't speak for others, I'm personally fed up of hearing about it...
Jerome, please, just give over now, fella.
Oh, and could UTV also give over about the sacked/reinstated ASDA employee? It's hardly headline-leading material or IMO a consequential story to keep following, and while I can't speak for others, I'm personally fed up of hearing about it...
CO
OK, who was first with the "spinning laptop" animated sequence signposting viewers to further content on the programme website - Newsline or UTV Live?
Not sure which was worse; Newsline using "Yakety-Sax" on a report on a park-and-ride or UTV not bothering to upload the complete UTV Live at Six bulletin on their beloved website, and promoting their Liam Neeson as Hannibal interview over anything of actual news value on UTV Player. Actually, don't answer that, really.
Also noticed as well this evening that Newsline are now crediting their regional reporters as "(region) district journalists". And has Stephen Watson (doing a live OB at my old stomping ground at UUC!) got a sore throat at the moment or has his voice got deeper of late? Not as deep as Miss Bleach Blondie's on UTV, though. And BBC NI has got rights for the Ulster Grand Prix for the next three years, so no chance of a boost of sports coverage from Havoc House.
Finally for now, I really hope Pamela Ballantine's cover for Funtime Frankie on the UTV weather, which of course has been very welcome, hasn't substantially eaten into the 40 alloted days of her UTV "contract"... she must have used half of those days or more now since her permanent arrangement with Havoc House came to an end around the start of this year. I guess more Aidan Browne (is) on our screens (that's) coming up (after) for the rest of 2010 will tell us more...
Not sure which was worse; Newsline using "Yakety-Sax" on a report on a park-and-ride or UTV not bothering to upload the complete UTV Live at Six bulletin on their beloved website, and promoting their Liam Neeson as Hannibal interview over anything of actual news value on UTV Player. Actually, don't answer that, really.
Also noticed as well this evening that Newsline are now crediting their regional reporters as "(region) district journalists". And has Stephen Watson (doing a live OB at my old stomping ground at UUC!) got a sore throat at the moment or has his voice got deeper of late? Not as deep as Miss Bleach Blondie's on UTV, though. And BBC NI has got rights for the Ulster Grand Prix for the next three years, so no chance of a boost of sports coverage from Havoc House.
Finally for now, I really hope Pamela Ballantine's cover for Funtime Frankie on the UTV weather, which of course has been very welcome, hasn't substantially eaten into the 40 alloted days of her UTV "contract"... she must have used half of those days or more now since her permanent arrangement with Havoc House came to an end around the start of this year. I guess more Aidan Browne (is) on our screens (that's) coming up (after) for the rest of 2010 will tell us more...