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ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

150,000 Confirmed Dead (December 2004)

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JW
JamesWorldNews
As my colleagues here on this forum will already know, I am not the world's biggest fan of Sky News. I usually find it somewhat corny and trashy from time to time.

However, their coverage of Asia Quake 2004 has been exceptional! Absolutely exceptional. And has given CNN and certainly the BBC a run for their money.

I saw ITN's Martin Geissler out in Male reporting on behalf of ITN and CNN. He did a good job too.

The level of coverage has ensured that we are now all fully aware and touced by the gravity of the situation in the affected region.

Well done Sky.
MO
Moz
Joe Havard posted:
Ir was mentioned on ITV news tonight that the earthquake tremors were felt 5000 miles away here in the UK - is this true and how bad were the tremors?


The earthquake was huge. 9 on the Richter scale (and remember it's a logarithmic scale so 9 is one hundred times as powerful as Cool.

According to John Simpson's report last night it briefly interrupted the spin of the earth.

That's bad.
CA
cat
Jakarta posted:
Surely the scale of the disaster is enough to make the appeal compelling, location and clothing of the broadcaster has little to no bearing on the matter. Does the fact Thompson is in Phuket make you more likely to donate than having Dimbleby in London? I hope for the sake of the estimated 500million people left without the three basic essentials for life that you have more sense then that.

So all things considered does it really matter where the newsreaders of BBC News 24, Sky News and the ITV NC are.


a) He was saying it would make it MORE compelling, and I'd agree. You cannot say that David Dimbleby sitting in an air conditioned studio in central London brings home the situation in quite the same way as having Jeremy Thompson standing amongst the victims in Thailand.

b) Yes it does matter where they have their presenters. I would rather have Jeremy Thompson with first hand knowledge of what was going on questioning Jack Straw, than News 24's Anna Jones doing it from London, as happened yesterday.
NR
News room
Sky have now deployed three of its presenters to the region. Jeremy Thompson, Martin Stanford and this morning Julie Etchingham popped up at 10am. I'd agree with Cat, it really does make it more compelling to have a presenter there.

I am suprised ITV's Mark Austin hasn't appeared in the region as yet. When he got the job at ITV News, the press release stated that he'd be sent to wherever the big stories were breaking.
NR
News room
There is a News Special on World at 11.30GMT, anyone know if it's being shown on News 24????
CO
cortomaltese
timmy posted:
Hey North East,

As if by magic - here is an example of the figures for the ITV News Channel based on Quarter Hour Satellite TV overnights, according to BARB.

Remember these are figures for satellite platforms so when Sky or News 24 is ahead, it's a spurious stat because it doesn't include multichannel (ie. Freeview) homes.

This is the best way to compare because ITV NC is not available on Freeview.
Figures are presented as a percentage of audience share on satellite platforms.

They aren't very good, so we'll spare blushes but:

Yesterday at 13.00
BBC News 24: 2.0% share
Sky News: 2.3% share
ITV NC:0.4%

Yesterday at 16.00
BBC News 24: 1.4% share
Sky News: 0.8% share
ITV NC:0.1% share
And just be to very scurrilous, at the same time:
QVC shopping channel: 0.2%
Smash Hits!: 0.2%

Yesterday at 22.00
BBC News 24: 0.6% share
Sky News: 0.8% share
ITV NC: 0.1% share


I am not English so I may seem quite stupid but I am really surprised that the highest share of BBC News 24 is 2.0% and that the highest share of BBCNews+Skynews+ITV is 5.0! I mean, are there other information channels? What do the other 95% watch?
SN
Snu
I thought it a little odd that Tim Marshall, Sky's Foreign Affairs editor is still here in the UK. Southampton to be precise illustrating the effects of a tsunami on a lab model. I would have thought he would be out somewhere in South-east Asia.

Julie Etchingham has been superb this morning as has all the team from the region.

As per usual, the only thing that lets Sky down slightly is the hideous breaking news straps. Otherwise the coverage continues to be spot on.
MO
Moz
cortomaltese posted:
I am not English so I may seem quite stupid but I am really surprised that the highest share of BBC News 24 is 2.0% and that the highest share of BBCNews+Skynews+ITV is 5.0! I mean, are there other information channels? What do the other 95% watch?


This data is for ALL TV I presume, so the other 95% watch BBC ONE and ITV1 mainly as well as BBC TWO, Channel 4, five and all the other satellite & Freeview channels.
OH
ohwhatanight Founding member
I think ALL coverage by ALL News Channels has been exceptional - considering that it occurred at a time when staffing levels were at a minimum.

I dont think its relevant to give out 'best' awards in such a situation as ALL coverage has been commendable due to the huge amount of imagery to show and the swiftness of dispatching reporters to the affected region.
OH
ohwhatanight Founding member
Snu posted:
I thought it a little odd that Tim Marshall, Sky's Foreign Affairs editor is still here in the UK. Southampton to be precise illustrating the effects of a tsunami on a lab model. I would have thought he would be out somewhere in South-east Asia.

Julie Etchingham has been superb this morning as has all the team from the region.

As per usual, the only thing that lets Sky down slightly is the hideous breaking news straps. Otherwise the coverage continues to be spot on.


I thought it was quite amusing the way they went to the Univeristy in Southampton to illustrate the tsunami effect and as soon as the professor started speaking thepresenter cut him off and said that they had run out of time. He then swiftly handed back to Julie in Phuket (i think) whom got cut off mid sentence for an advert break.

Which leads me onto the question - How do SKY¦News run/schedule their breaks? Are they at fixed times or flexible?
CO
cortomaltese
Moz posted:
cortomaltese posted:
I am not English so I may seem quite stupid but I am really surprised that the highest share of BBC News 24 is 2.0% and that the highest share of BBCNews+Skynews+ITV is 5.0! I mean, are there other information channels? What do the other 95% watch?


This data is for ALL TV I presume, so the other 95% watch BBC ONE and ITV1 mainly as well as BBC TWO, Channel 4, five and all the other satellite & Freeview channels.


Well, I thought BBC News24's share was much higher.
JO
Johnnie
ohwhatanight posted:

Which leads me onto the question - How do SKY¦News run/schedule their breaks? Are they at fixed times or flexible?


Flexible during the hour, but if they wanna start a new hour with Idents/ headlines ETC they cut the program at 12:56.50, then 3 minutes of adverts and a 10 second ident, headlines played at the Top of the Hour

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