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ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

My sentiments exactly. At any other time of the year they would have thrown out news specials willy nilly. Not one on either One or Two, and their extended news last night was by a mere 5 minutes. Finally they have a news special tomorrow evening, but its a little too late.

ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

BBC News Special tomorrow night (WEDNESDAY) at 7.30pm

ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

ITV News excelled themselves with their News Special on ITV1 this evening. They have deployed Adrian Britton and Martin Geisler to the region as well as having John Irvine there already. I am suprised Bill Neely hasn't gone himself, though from London he filed a great report.

Does anyone know how long the BBC One bulletin is being extended by? www.bbc.co.uk haven't updated their schedule.

ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

ITV NEWS SPECIAL on ITV1 at 2000.

EXTENDED BBC NEWS at 2240 on BBC 1

ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

Yeah, CNN Domestic took CNNI this morning for the majority of CNN Today. Pretty good show this morning.

ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

Yeah, CNN Domestic took CNNI this morning for the majority of CNN Today. Pretty good show this morning.

ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

For anyone wanting to view the Broadband stream of BBC News, whether you are in the Uk or not, click here. BBC NEWS LIVE BROADBAND

ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

News 24 still carrying World. As David said, Adrian doing an excellent job.

ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

I woke up to a CNN text this morning regarding a tidal earthquake in SE Asia, been channel hopping since.

Before I discuss the coverage, can I just send my deepest sympathies to all involved and of course the families waiting for news. I myself have several friends in the region and am more than anxious for news. It is almost to the day that the BAM earthquake hit another part of that region, a truly awful natural disaster yet again.


SKY News - Outstanding. Juliette Foster held up very well on her own until Martin Standford joined her at 9am. Great continuous coverage from Sky.

BBC- Not bad, though in my opinion the BBC were much slower than Sky in realising the enormity of the story. Simon McCoy anchoring Brekkie alone with Tim Wilcox appearing at 9am for News 24. N24 joined world for more coverage at 09.30 with Adrian Finnighan.

ITVNC - Total rubbish, probably due to the fact they didn't have enough resources until 7am. Coverage picked up after 7am with Owen Thomas doing a pretty acceptable job.

More than a week on and with many people discussing ratings, who watched what, who has done a better job regarding coverage, I thought I'd add a poll to see what we all thought of it.

Xmas Day Seniors!

I meant SENIOR as in senior to the junior.

Nina Hossain would also be considered senior as she co-anchors ITV's flagship Evening News programme.

Xmas Day Seniors!

Isn't it a little odd how some of the news channel's senior presenters are actually working today and on days they wouldn't normally work.

So far we've had Jon Sopel on News 24 and Kay Burley doing Sunrise. Normally neither Kay or Jon would work on Saturdays.

Wales Today

I got back to Wales yesterday for the annual Xmas thing with family and sat down to watch the Six inc Wales Today. It seems to me that BBC Wales needs a new sound engineer.

The sound levels between between London and Cardiff iare hugely different to the point that I almost turned it the sound down a little. The thunderclaps and head bed generated from wales during the headline sequence were sooooo much louder than those coming from London, and Sara Edwards' voice levels were way higher than either George or Sophies. It sounded messy!!! Surely for the sake of continuity, someone could at least make an effort. We never hear such things in the LDN region.

Also, that set has to go! Too outdated now in comparison to the rest of the country and indeed BBC News in general.