BBC News Thread

No, Kings and Queens (including the late Queen Mother) are His/Her Majesty and all others are His/Her Royal Highness. TRH is used (Their Royal Highnesses) when two or more HRHs are referred to but when HMTQ and Philip are together they are HMTQ and HRH the D of E. It's interesting that Camilla is referred to differently - when Edward & Sophie are together they are TRH Earl & Countess of Wessex. When Charles & Camilla are together they are HRH P of W accompanied by HRH Duchess of Cornwall.

Why would there be a different title for State occassions???

Anyway, sorry, back to BBC News....

Thanks there Moz, Not quite sure myself what I ment, we've run out of coffee and nobody seems willing to get some, but yes back on topic.

Nice to see Dermot on last nights 6. Much better than HRT (Hormone Replacement Treatment) Geogre. But still the 6 is far from the mark.

Are Sophie and George not on the 6 0 clock news this week?, Dermot and Sian have been on for the past 2 days.

What did people think of the opening to tonigh'ts six and the first story.

After the titles Sian was at the left screen and Dermot at the desk with the intro. Then went to Sian with the Blair/Bush aid thing, Sian reading a point from the Blair side of the story. Dermot must of then hot-footed it over to the other screen as he read the next point about Bush. It then went back and forth from screen to screen/presenter to presenter like this until the first report. Or something like that.

I personally thought it was all a bit naf.

Should be an interesting 6 tonight.

George said at 3:20 that Jane Hill will be hosting the 6 with him.

Lets hope they give the 6 to Jane when Sophie goes on marternity leave, Sian is just as good, anything but Kaplinski!!!!!

On a technical BBC News point (don't think it's worth starting another thread for), why does BBC News, icl News 24 only use single lapel mics, as opposed to double lapel mics with one being used for back-up as is standard practice for most live productions?

The other option is to have the back-ups on the desk as used to be the case, but these seem to have gone too - are there hidden mics somewhere?
It's great not to have the distracting clunky clumps that are double mic sets on lapels, esp light coloured clothes that most women wear, but how are they getting around the back-up issue with the single mics they use?
Thanks.

I very much enjoyed watching Jane doing the six with George tonight. I thought she was excellent. Good old Jane, you can always count on her to get it spot on - authorative, engaging and good interaction with the viewers! If Sophie were to leave the BBC as some rumours have been indicating I feel Jane would be the ideal replacement...keep Kaplinsky on the breakfast sofa!

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Because having double mic sets are not much use if the Presenter forgets to put them on.

There are standby mics on the desk

I mean double mic sets as in both mics on the same clip - such as Channel Four News etc:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/RTE1TV/Mic.jpg


Where are the mics on the regular bulletin desk?

http://thetvroom.com/images-bbc-one-news/news-03/ten/end-1m.jpg
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I see Sian Williams is takin part in the Ask The Governors debate thing, persumably why she didnt stand in on the 6 tonight.

Thats what I mean. presenters sometimes forget to put that double mic on, in which case you are stuffed