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ITV News 2013 Rebrand

I like the new look and the music. The problem I have is the that the new itv logo is all "fluid", yet the look of the news is hard corners and squares. There's a real uneasy dis-joint here. How to get round this? Bring back the blocky ITN logo. ITN is still a strong brand in most people's mind, associated only with ITV.

BBC One Christmas Ident

Oh you miserable lot. I think they're rather nice, charming and fun. I find ITV's offering, though clearly highly produced, well, highly produced and not very ho ho ho.

BBC Breakfast

How good is Sally Nugent on Breakfast this morning. Relaxed, warm, intelligent, pretty. A real breath of fresh air.

Daybreak - the launch onwards

All this talk about Eamon Holmes being touted... I know, how about this? A really fat, miserable, ageing woman with a twenty-something hunkarama of a man - he should be blond, obviously, and wear really nice clothes and be linked in some way to Sienna Millar or one of those bints from the Saturdays.
What... ? Why not?
It works the other way around....

BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

I can't think of two worse presenters. Both, truly dull and dreadful to watch.

BBC London TV News

I think it's a disgrace that all BBC regions now employ a weather forecaster just for a 30 second update in a regional bulletin. What's the point? People just want to know whether it's going to rain or be sunny, and the duty newsreader is quite capable of doing that over a graphic. If you're not going to do that, what was wrong with a national forecaster recording 10, 30 second adlib weathers for each region? It worked perfectly before.

ITV Discussion Thread

Probably. ITV hasn't had a good, original idea for Saturday night since ATV brought us the Muppets in 1977.

BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

the sickly yellow backdrop matched his hair.

BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

same can't be said for the programme itself. It's truly bizarre how they randomly switch to Singapore for a chunk of news. Surely it'd be better to alternate presenters throughout the show on each different story. And the handover? It's toe curling... "You've got news of a big riot in xxx., Rico". "Yes that's right Kasia...".
And the yellow...
There's no sense of depth in the set...
Who's behind this huge dog's breakfast? And what were they thinking?

CNN International & Domestic

After a lot of travelling recently, I've been really shocked at just how bad CNN has become. Each time I tuned in expecting NEWS I got sport, or taped programming. Some truly awful bloke presented something called Prism. It wasn't news, it was features dressed up as news. The interviewer (who's actually a good auto-cue reader but totally out of his depth when dealing with interviews) was either clearly reading every question or got so lost with his rambling enquiries, it was totally toe-curling. I think he's called Errol something and would be far more suited to reading breakfast bulletins on Daybreak rather than pretending to be a hot shot anchor.
BBC World is better - at least it's mostly news - but my word it's sooo boring. There's just no real presentational flair and there seemed to be a bizarre, constant focus on Pakistan and India and barely anything about Europe or the wider world.
What on earth has gone wrong?

BBC News Channel: Presentation

Standing up, sitting down, it makes absolutely no difference. Sky News is beating the cr@p out of BBC News Channel with its amazing coverage of Libya. They have Anna Botting (standing in a flak-jacket) in full quality, BBC News has a report on blood pressure.

BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

She's a World Service radio presenter.