BBC Breakfast

GS

Gavin Scott Founding member 26 March 2009 11:26am

Spencer For Hire posted:

Seriously, are you sure there's not something wrong with your telly Gavin? The size of the text hasn't changed, and there should be sufficient contrast between white and red for it to be perfectly legible. I can see it fine on my TV and on the TVs at the gym. If you're getting a lot of bleeding on the reds, maybe you need to turn your contrast down.

No, nowt wrong with my telly - but I am a little short-sighted, and I don't pop my contact lenses in until just before I leave.

I appreciate that's more my problem than anyone else's, but it *was* easier to read when it was black and white.

JB

JasonB 26 March 2009 3:17pm

How long has the clock been red? Last time i watched it was black.

GS

Gavin Scott Founding member 26 March 2009 3:54pm

JasonB posted:

How long has the clock been red? Last time i watched it was black.

48 hours.

JW

JamesWorldNews 26 March 2009 9:24pm

LOL. Good Old Noel!! Who is that lady with him?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9HPOJxkhrQ&feature=related

SE

Seb 26 March 2009 9:55pm

That would be the weekend relief presenter Sonia Deol.

LO

looknorth 27 March 2009 7:07pm

gregmc posted:

looknorth posted:

I think the crashing in of the 2006 music over the 2003/2000 music sounds stupid. I think they should have just used the new mix of the first generation breakfast music without trying to mash it up with the 2006 look after all they would still sound modern just updated. The 2003 headline bed would probably be the one that suits these titles.

I'm confused to how people can call this set cold, when the era shown in the image above described as warm is cold blues and whites?!

Regarding music, I think it sounds like a more polished version of the 2006 theme, and the new elements introduced from the 2002/2003 package adds a more classic breakfast feel to it.

I heard from a good source today that the current Breakfast music basically is the 2003 version but strpped down to the chords and built back up again using elements from 2003 and 2006 to create what we have now. The 2009 version shares the same chords and base with the 2003 tune. You can accually hear the the similarities when you listen to the two tunes.

2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2sLVyGZJ5Q
2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK6cV40mjbM

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Revitt 27 March 2009 9:15pm

BBC WORLD posted:

LOL. Good Old Noel!! Who is that lady with him?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9HPOJxkhrQ&feature=related

Does anyone else think he deliberately said that? Notice he say's "and I'm not even a golfer." What a naughty boy!

CW

Charlie Wells Moderator 7 April 2009 7:23am

Interesting to see this morning that Look East's Kim Riley was reporting for Breakfast this morning. Interesting on account of using a regional news presenter instead of one of the usual national/Breakfast reporters.

CY

cylon6 7 April 2009 7:32am

I wonder why they don't use regional presenters more often to report from the regions. It makes sense perfect sense when you think about it. They only use regional presenters it seems when there is a major weather story across the country.

NG

noggin Founding member 7 April 2009 10:45am

I think Kim is Chief Reporter for Look East - as well as a some-time presenter (He used to be a regular studio presenter in the Stewart and Penny era). He's an excellent live performer - and a very well respected journalist.

East Anglia is usually lumped into the Midlands reporter gig (which makes it a huge patch - and getting round a region that large isn't that quick and easy), but if the network reporter for the Midlands isn't available, then it would make sense for someone like Kim to cover the story for network.

SP

Spencer 8 April 2009 10:35am

There was a rather strange effect around the clock this morning, with a small gap between it and the straps. However rather than the clock being smaller or positioned differently, there appeared to be a ting piece of the white name straps missing adjacent to the clock. Only a minor thing, but intrigued as to why this was happening - some strange quirk of the keying process??

CY

cylon6 8 April 2009 11:21am

Kate Silverton has a very weird style when reading autocue. With pauses in the wrong places and the emphasis all wrong in some sentences. Not when she reads the news, only on Breakfast. I think that when somebody reads autocue it should sound natural and not stilted.

(March 2009)