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And not to downplay Jackie and David's talents, but anchoring rolling news coverage is a lot different to doing a scripted bulletin - especially away from the security blanket of a studio with no autocue, no computer, no scripts, no floor manager and a dodgy comms link to TV Centre. I didn't see Jackie's appearance on News 24 (in this context I can't say why), but by all accounts she did very well.
I see your point, but wasn't David Robertson a News24 presenter in the flags era?
w12 posted:
And not to downplay Jackie and David's talents, but anchoring rolling news coverage is a lot different to doing a scripted bulletin - especially away from the security blanket of a studio with no autocue, no computer, no scripts, no floor manager and a dodgy comms link to TV Centre. I didn't see Jackie's appearance on News 24 (in this context I can't say why), but by all accounts she did very well.
I see your point, but wasn't David Robertson a News24 presenter in the flags era?
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And not to downplay Jackie and David's talents, but anchoring rolling news coverage is a lot different to doing a scripted bulletin - especially away from the security blanket of a studio with no autocue, no computer, no scripts, no floor manager and a dodgy comms link to TV Centre. I didn't see Jackie's appearance on News 24 (in this context I can't say why), but by all accounts she did very well.
I see your point, but wasn't David Robertson a News24 presenter in the flags era?
He was, but that was a long time ago and News 24 now is a different beast. I'm not doing David down in any way - I'm sure that if he wanted to, he could come back, and I'm sure he'd be very good at it once he'd got back into the swing of things. But it does take practice. A few years ago, one of the highest profile presenters from the early days came back for a few shifts a year or two after moving on ("you're listening to Today on Radio Four with John Humphries and....) - and within the first hour found themselves with a 767 crashing onto part of New York City, two months after September 11th. By their own admission, they had a nightmare. It's not easy - and on location, it's ten times harder - normally (and in the case of that Glasgow story), they don't even get to see the pictures coming out of their own satellite van, let alone the full output.
Steve in Pudsey posted:
w12 posted:
And not to downplay Jackie and David's talents, but anchoring rolling news coverage is a lot different to doing a scripted bulletin - especially away from the security blanket of a studio with no autocue, no computer, no scripts, no floor manager and a dodgy comms link to TV Centre. I didn't see Jackie's appearance on News 24 (in this context I can't say why), but by all accounts she did very well.
I see your point, but wasn't David Robertson a News24 presenter in the flags era?
He was, but that was a long time ago and News 24 now is a different beast. I'm not doing David down in any way - I'm sure that if he wanted to, he could come back, and I'm sure he'd be very good at it once he'd got back into the swing of things. But it does take practice. A few years ago, one of the highest profile presenters from the early days came back for a few shifts a year or two after moving on ("you're listening to Today on Radio Four with John Humphries and....) - and within the first hour found themselves with a 767 crashing onto part of New York City, two months after September 11th. By their own admission, they had a nightmare. It's not easy - and on location, it's ten times harder - normally (and in the case of that Glasgow story), they don't even get to see the pictures coming out of their own satellite van, let alone the full output.