Scottish Referendum news thread

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STV Line up for me is great - but the studio limitations are really apparent. It's a shame they couldn't 'join' the news and Scotland Tonight studio's together in some respects set up wise so they could basically walk back and forward at will / make the place look bigger.

A third version of the BBC coverage is a Welsh language programme going out on S4C. Unusually for them it appears to be using the BBC News graphics system, complete with ticker - although with their own colours and font.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aasmah_Mir

And that's the final break from STV, you can safely say you will get 7 hours of non stop coverage.

BBC Scotland opening now on line:
http://www.tv-live.org.uk/wp/index.php/plusone/scottish-referendum-2014/bbc-referendum-presentation/programmes-news/

Guest merry go round is on full swing... people jumping between BBC Glasgow, STV , BBC network..

Well, STV's coverage isn't at all bad but ITV News and Alastair Stewart are certainly much missed at a time like this. Bernard Ponsonby and Aasmah Mir are competent presenters but the whole thing just feels very unfamiliar to viewers in England. It's very strange that ITV opted not to go with the ITN-produced overnight programme for England as was originally planned - wonder why it was pulled?

BBC World News is similcasting the network coverage. I wonder if they will break away for the PBS bulletin.

Does it really matter? Seriously???

(via Marc Ellison on Twitter)

First 10 mins or just shy of the STV/ITV Scotland Decides programme.

The evening so far for me:

BBC - Hugh 'Dimbleby' stuck behind a desk and all very dry, if slick.
Sky - Everywhere and interesting, but a little messy.
ITV/STV - truly awful from every measurable perspective