And this board really must stop obsessing with Maxine Mahwinney. A telented newscaster she might be, but she doesn't fit in with the LOOK of a channel that wants to be modern and fresh.
Is Simon McCoy back today?
No
Still Julian then?
What about Jane is she back with Matthew? Sorry about all these questions!
Some messy on screen graphics during the one with the bulletin being signed. Everything was squashed into the small screen in the left hand corner while the normal tower and ticker remained as normal. In essence there were two BBC News towers.
No split screen for the signing today. The woman providing the sign language has instead appeared in a grey box on the right hand side of the screen, therefore sometimes obscuring the reports.
I don't quite get the argument about Ben Brown on this forum.
It's just so blinkered, with the basic assumption that the BBC called him out of active duty as a foreign correspondent to come and present on News 24.
Nobody seems to have considered the possibility that Brown wanted a change of lifestyle and a return to living in the UK full time, for family or other reasons.
Now Ben Brown is a very good, experienced and senior journalist- would people rather the BBC lost him because they couldn't accomodate such a request?
He's following the route of numerous other presenters on the channel, making the move from correspondent to presenter...given time I'm certain he's going to be one of News 24's best assets.
Indeed. I ought to look online and see if there's a video anywhere of the great Michael Buerk's very first One O'Clock News - he was wooden and bordering on quite awful in places - and look how fab he trned out to be.
Some messy on screen graphics during the one with the bulletin being signed. Everything was squashed into the small screen in the left hand corner while the normal tower and ticker remained as normal. In essence there were two BBC News towers.
No split screen for the signing today. The woman providing the sign language has instead appeared in a grey box on the right hand side of the screen, therefore sometimes obscuring the reports.
Indeed - it's bloody awful. They can't even get the National graphics to fit in with the standard N24 onscreen furniture much of the time, and now they've added to the complication by overlaying a huge box over the right third of the screen, obscuring many of the full screen report graphics.
I don't quite get the argument about Ben Brown on this forum.
It's just so blinkered, with the basic assumption that the BBC called him out of active duty as a foreign correspondent to come and present on News 24.
Nobody seems to have considered the possibility that Brown wanted a change of lifestyle and a return to living in the UK full time, for family or other reasons.
Now Ben Brown is a very good, experienced and senior journalist- would people rather the BBC lost him because they couldn't accomodate such a request?
He's following the route of numerous other presenters on the channel, making the move from correspondent to presenter...given time I'm certain he's going to be one of News 24's best assets.
Indeed. I ought to look online and see if there's a video anywhere of the great Michael Buerk's very first One O'Clock News - he was wooden and bordering on quite awful in places - and look how fab he trned out to be.
But, it's easier to get used to reading an autocue than getting used to dealing with breaking news. Huw seemed to be a bit hesitant yesterday with the Italy story. Ben Brown on the other hand does seem to be better when he's ad-hocing than reading an autocue.
Huw did come across as quite friendly yesterday though, and so I think he'll do well. He had plenty of banter, sat *very* close to Julia (!) and the chat with the Alex Deakin was quite good before the weather.
I would change the following for the Huw's hour though...
Jon & Louise didn't say goodbye or mention Huw at all - this needs to happen
It needs "5 o'Clock News" titles
Keep weather as it was, but throw back to Huw for him to say goodbye and intro the 6 and maybe promo the 10.
One thing though, I was wondering if they're just making it simple to start with so Huw can learn to walk before he runs?
Ben Brown was much better during the 6.30 - 7.00 slot. Maybe he's nervous about tripping over a co-presenter which makes him appear worse when Emily's sat next to him.
Brilliant. During the weather report, the wretched signing woman managed to obscure the eastern half of Great Britain. Parts of it were visible through her translucent black slab, but her arse obscured all of the south east and East Anglia, and only half of Anna was visible during her sign-off. At least when we returned to Jane and Matthew, they had the good grace to position the camera in such a way that they were framed in the left two-thirds of the screen leaving signing woman on the right third.
Another outstandingly thought-out change. Well done, BBC.
No split screen for the signing today. The woman providing the sign language has instead appeared in a grey box on the right hand side of the screen, therefore sometimes obscuring the reports.
Indeed - it's bloody awful. They can't even get the National graphics to fit in with the standard N24 onscreen furniture much of the time, and now they've added to the complication by overlaying a huge box over the right third of the screen, obscuring many of the full screen report graphics.
Useless.
Blimey. It's as if nobody told them where the signer was going to be today - the first link after Anna handed back had the signer entirely obscuring Jane Hill, and they're not quite sure where to frame Mathew in his H&S shots - they're aiming for somewhere over to the left, but he just keeps floating.
Wouldn’t like to be the person that thought that one up, they must have been tasked yesterday with making sure it all fits for today and they came up with that!
Would love to be a fly on the wall in that meeting, the bets bit was when they came back from the One o’clock news and Jane did all the talking...you just couldn’t see her, just the bloke who looked like he was staring at the signers breasts! Priceless!
Jon & Louise didn't say goodbye or mention Huw at all - this needs to happen
