BBC News 24: Presentation discussion

Are we simulcasting with World now?

Jon Sopel is presenting "BBC News" from Heathrow, TOTH was messy to say the least.

Messy??? Sopel was reading a script from a Blackberry - pretty damn innovative I'd say - and he did more than ok.

I was referring to the fact the graphics seemed to go awry!

These interviews from the scene really aren't going well... Can't they do them from the studio and get rid of the uncomfortable silences, cutting over each other and confusion as to if the other person can actually hear them...

About 20 minutes ago, the standard ticker was removed, and has been replaced with a loop, starting with the title "COMING UP", and information about the planned British Airways press conference with Captain Burkill of the crashed 777 scrolling across.

I like that they're using the ticker in this way - it keeps the rest of the screen free for standard graphics, where often the standard graphics are displayed in messy alternations with the full-width "COMING UP" supers. It's just a shame that the ticker looks a bit silly looping the same short piece of information over and over again - it's looks like it's broken.

Good week for News 24!

From MediaGuardian

Just a question why is News 24 on the News Multiscreen?

Always has been hasn't it? Is it not so that when reading BBC Text there is a news stream to be shown in the corner of the screen?

I don't think it takes up a much needed BBCi feed though, simply the channel itself.

Another new presentation 'feature': with a correspondent down the line from Yorkshire, we were treated to some live 3G phone footage of flooding around the correspondent's location.

The location bug alternated between "Location*, Yorkshire" and "Mobile Phone Footage" while the LIVE bug remained to its left. I've not seen the location bug used in this way before.

* My apologies, but I've completely forgotten the actual location in Yorkshire at which the correspondent was located!

It's definitely a separate feed - there's no ticker or clock on it, and the DOG just says 'BBC NEWS'.

As well as the Mark Simpson 3G live mobile phone footage, interestingly also there were extra live weather forecasts this morning (usually the first few are pre-rec) due to the bad weather conditions, and also business updates had a presenter in the studio, to leave Declan free at the stock exchange to concentrate on the Northern Rock story.