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LL
London Lite Founding member
A tweet from C4 News's Darshna Soni says that C5 will initially move into C4's virtual studio at Grays Inn Road before moving to N&S.
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Inspector Sands
Martin Phillp posted:
A tweet from C4 News's Darshna Soni says that C5 will initially move into C4's virtual studio at Grays Inn Road before moving to N&S.

Yes, they're starting off at ITN until the permanent facilities at N&S are finished. Makes sense if they're expecting to start in February, that's not enough time to equip, setup and test the new facilities.

Somewhere I read that there's been a bit of an internal battle for office space at the N&S building over the last few weeks, apparently the ITN team have lost out on getting a river view!
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excel99
Nothing to do with ITN, but the old Five News thread is locked

As in past years an extra Five News bulletin at 11am today to cover Rememberance Day silence. Presented by Emma Crosby. Not sure if they actually covered any other news
WP
WillPS
ITN have signed Geoff Hill as editor: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/14/itn-5-news-editor?CMP=twt_fd
PE
Pete19
WillPS posted:


Who thinks his wife Alexandra Hill will be a presenter?

23 days later

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excel99
Quote:
Richard Desmond's Channel 5 will relaunch its news output next year with on-air reporters editing their own footage.

5 News is making more than a third of its news staff redundant – including all editors and newsroom staff – in a fresh bid to cut costs at the broadcaster.

About 16 staff are being made redundant as part of changes to the Channel 5 news output, which will see some on-air presenters edit their own footage and the introduction of "low-budget" cameras.

The redundancies were announced to staff after ITN won back the contract to produce 5 News from Sky News. ITN will take over the daily bulletin, fronted by presenters Matt Barbet and Emma Crosby, in February 2012.

ITN said most of the redundant staff would be replaced but in different roles. "We've always said the majority of 5 News staff will be transferring to ITN," a spokesman for ITN said. "We are currently in consultation with the workforce as we reconfigure roles on the service. As with any change, ITN does have different working practices to other news producers and we are supporting staff through this process."

Some 5 News cameramen are understood to be furious after being told that their job title would be changed to "video journalist", which incorporates a broader range of editorial duties, and given what they claim are low-budget cameras. Some on-air reporters will edit their own footage.

"They've been given old [Sony] EX1s," said one 5 News insider. "They were told that they're award-winning cameras – but that's only because they're used in war zones."


And further indication that 'hard' news won't get much air time
Quote:
The 5 News budget for international coverage is also understood to have been squeezed, with foreign coverage next year restricted to the US presidential election.


From http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/06/channel-5-news
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WillPS
To be honest, why even bother? Just take it off and fob off Ofcom as ITV did with CiTV.
LR
Lost The Remote
MediaGuardian taking a very negative line as per usual when it comes to C5. The cuts to 5 News is becoming one of its favourite subjects.
RI
Rijowhi
WillPS posted:
To be honest, why even bother? Just take it off and fob off Ofcom as ITV did with CiTV.


Maybe with Channel 5 providing some funding towards the 'Local TV' project, as well as continuing to provide the children's TV strand 'Milkshake'?
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Lost The Remote posted:
MediaGuardian taking a very negative line as per usual when it comes to C5. The cuts to 5 News is becoming one of its favourite subjects.


No wonder. Are there some positives you see that you could share with us?

Slashing editorial and production staff, and shooting on handycam to be cut up by journalists on Fisher Price equipment is precisely what one might expect from Desmond.

So far he's got what he wanted - a gifted spectrum channel to cross promote his trashy publications with, negotiations to sell airtime of the sister channels to who knows what (which of course you do - unless you're incredibly naive) during "non peak time", and now the erosion of any meaningful commitment to news on the fifth channel.

So much for Desmond "buying Panorama" and other such guff he trumpeted when he made his bid.

Quite frankly if you think the important bit is the not-unsurprisingly sneery attitude of a rival newspaper then I don't think you're fully grasping the situation.
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House
Gavin Scott posted:
Lost The Remote posted:
MediaGuardian taking a very negative line as per usual when it comes to C5. The cuts to 5 News is becoming one of its favourite subjects.


No wonder. Are there some positives you see that you could share with us?


Arrow It won't be presented by Gok Wan
Arrow It won't be presented by whoever Channel 5 would get should they fail to get Gok Wan
Arrow The production team won't be made up of sixth form media studies students
Arrow It will still have a larger budget than Newsround
Arrow They plan on covering the US elections.
Arrow The reporters will not include 'stars' from 'Jersey Shore', 'The Only Way is Essex' or 'I'm a Celebrity' (as they are under contract with another channel)
Arrow They will be (barely) fulfilling their Ofcom requirements.
Arrow There are plenty of alternatives.
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Gavin Scott Founding member
House posted:
Arrow It won't be presented by Gok Wan


I understand he has been used on a consultancy basis.

Expect to see lots of grabbing of breasts, whilst calling them "luverly bangers"

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