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BBC News 24

ctb posted:
couch_potato posted:
A potential future permanent News 24 presenter?


I think they already tried that. Didn't last for too long!


Who wants to sit behind a desk for 3 hours a day, being talked about by a load of geeks.
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MP Robin Cook dies

p_c_u_k posted:
(Lest we forget of course that the BBC got the 45 minutes story completely RIGHT, that the Mirror's story about prisoner abuse in Iraq was correct (even if the pictures were allegedly 'false' - and there are all sorts of accusations as to where those pics came from), and the government either got the 45 minutes claim WRONG, or deliberately misled us. I'm not sure which is worse.)


Therefore the people to blame for BBC News being the way it is now are the Labour Government.

Alistar Campbell picked a fight with the BBC to cover up other stuff; ie there was no real fight to be fought.
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Aljazeera

A brief hostory of Al Jazerra:

BBC shuts down it's Arabic tv news service.

Most of the staff who are made redundant got Qutar and start Al Jazerra.

The end.
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News 24 problems

harshy posted:
that's what happens when you get robots running the service, but at least it is cheaper to run then a proper gallery.


The only difference between the N24 gallery and, eg the Sky News gallery is that the director is also the vision mixer. The astons are driven by ENPS, but then so are most things on N24, Sky, ITV etc.
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BBC News Thread

Hymagumba posted:
Dog posted:
Why are you being flippant?

Do you work? Are you over 18? Do you have a mortgage to pay?

The world doesn't revolve around television news; why isn't Tim Wilcox presenting today; why is the TOG doing odd things...

If somewhere is an office, like the news centre balcony, it can't be a set.


Why do you have to take everything so seriously all the time? I'm well aware you can't just shove a show into the middle of a working office.

I simply don't have the time and energy to write "well they could always see about moving the people who work on the balcony to another part of the building and then install appropriate equipment allowing them to broadcast from said area no doubt meaning a weekend from BBC World and joy for all Kleenex shareholders." In the same sense as saying "I'd like to build a house" I'm missing out the particulars.

And yes I do work, I am over eighteen and my parents have plenty money and haven't had a mortgage in 30 years.

Oh and I think you'll find the world revolves inside television news as illustrated by the following images which I shall hotlink from Mike's excellent site thetvroom...

TV news
http://www.thetvroom.com/images-bbc-strike/images-23-05-2005/1859-countdown-1b.jpg

The world revolving inside it
http://www.thetvroom.com/images-bbc-strike/images-23-05-2005/anim-1b.jpg

wibble
http://www.uncleblink.fsnet.co.uk/Store/Train.jpg


How pathetic
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BBC News Thread

Hymagumba posted:
Dog posted:
Hymagumba posted:
why not open the left hand set up into the news room and put the proper sofa in the newsroom? or present it from the balcony?


Because it's where people work. Not everywhere can be a set.


Well surely you can just get the big boss to sack them too?


Why are you being flippant?

Do you work? Are you over 18? Do you have a mortgage to pay?

The world doesn't revolve around television news; why isn't Tim Wilcox presenting today; why is the TOG doing odd things...

If somewhere is an office, like the news centre balcony, it can't be a set.
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BBC News 24

themagicmonkey posted:
I would think that plenty of people would be watching after 23:00 with Peter Dobbie too for a more fully rounded look at the day's news and tomorrow's papers.


Umm, no. People who want a serious round up watch Newsnight at that time. You certainly don't watch Peter Dobbie for that!

Audience figures for N24/Sky/ITV News are absolutly miniscule at that time of night.
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BBC News Thread

News24 posted:
I think they are due to move to the N24 set next year, when the studio technicians contracts expire.


'Expire' isn't the term i'd use for being made redundant.

Be careful with your theories.
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BBC News Thread

Hymagumba posted:
why not open the left hand set up into the news room and put the proper sofa in the newsroom? or present it from the balcony?


Because it's where people work. Not everywhere can be a set.
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Stockwell Incident

bbcworld2005 posted:


Ahhhhh I do understand! I take a media studies class at school that involves issues that affect the world thanks and I do very well in it. and understand lots of issues from around the world and have my own views on things such as this. IM not a child.


Then u should realise that 90% of people on this board are fanatics who can't see past who presented on News 24 at 3pm.

Don't bother trying to argue with them, cause they're <sarcasm>always</sarcasm> right.
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TOTP on BBC Two

p_c_u_k posted:
Quite enjoyed it tonight, but that's because a) my music taste is horrifically eclectic b) I like presenters who go mental and slate everything, it's the TV equivalent of watching a car crash and c) it was current, meaning the chart was announced relatively timeously.

However how many other people would it have appealed to? Who the hell is going to listen to that Gasoline crap, then watch Buck's Fizz, and then The Who? No-one could possibly like three songs in a row - it reminds me of how shambolic the Virgin Radio playlist used to be.

Niche broadcasting is the way forward now - more and more digital channels are popping up, meaning you can watch the genre you like. If you like indie you can listen to XFM rather than your heritage station, watch Kerrang rather than The Box, etc. Only the BBC would revert back to a televisual equivalent of BBC Radio before Radio 1.

Mind you, the Clarkson effect was good - maybe the one audience that exists for TOTP is kids who watch it with their parents. If that's the case, then having Clarkson there to represent older people who complain about new music and covers, and having Fearne there as the younger people's representative, might just work if they did it long term. But I'm not optimistic on the future presenters - bringing in a DJ who is only known in London (Christian O'Connell of XFM) means that 80% of the audience will be going "Who?"


You mean Christian O'Connell, formal of the Bournmouth 2CR breakfast show, and formerly also of BBC Radio 5 Live, where he presented Fighting Talk?

He's known a bit more widely then just in London.
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Stockwell Incident

cat posted:
How bizarre. I can only assume then, if it up for that, that the Met won't let them fly over London.


For the Skycopter to work, there needs to be a tv truck somewhere nearby with the capability to accept the downlink from the helicopter, then uplink it back up to a satellite.

The tv truck at Stockwell might not have been equiped with the right gear to take the signal from the helicopter. Or even if it was, there might not have been a spare path out to feed pictures from it.

Anyway, the Skycopter just appears to be a nuisence. It can't get close enough to show anything much, and even if it tried to, it'd get pulled down by police.

Infact Sky's coverage has been awful the last 2 days: sensationalist crap, reporting and running with rumours that turn out to be totally untrue. This sort of reporting helps noone, and just helps to cause alarm.