AL
Also didn't NickyS present UK Today or something like between 1999 and about 2005 if memory serves me right? Or would he have been a relief presenter.
IT
Yes I think you're right, I seem to recall that too. He also popped up once overnight presenting News 24 when the scheduled presenter fell asleep somewhere in the building.
itsrobert
Founding member
Also didn't NickyS present UK Today or something like between 1999 and about 2005 if memory serves me right? Or would he have been a relief presenter.
Yes I think you're right, I seem to recall that too. He also popped up once overnight presenting News 24 when the scheduled presenter fell asleep somewhere in the building.
RN
I notice in one of the clips I posted Simon McCoy is holding an IPad (of course made famous a few months later when he accidentally swapped it for a pad of A4 paper). I wonder why they never really used this? It looks so much slicker and modern than the presenter awkwardly holding together sheets of paper when delivering the news.
RK
Depends on the reliability. Some stations and networks ditched paper completely for the indesk computer or and use nothing for stand ups. I forget whether the BBC’s replacement for ENPS, OpenMedia, has an iPad app or iOS web interface. But if they want to at a minimum go paperless with a form or resiliency without worrying about app failures would be to save the rundown and scripts shortly before the TOTH and email it as a PDF.
(Incdenally one of the EPs of Megyn Kelly Today reportedly refused to learn iNews and required a senior staffer minutes before show time to email her the scripts. The EP would get pissed when cues for graphics would be in her email.)
I notice in one of the clips I posted Simon McCoy is holding an IPad (of course made famous a few months later when he accidentally swapped it for a pad of A4 paper). I wonder why they never really used this? It looks so much slicker and modern than the presenter awkwardly holding together sheets of paper when delivering the news.
Depends on the reliability. Some stations and networks ditched paper completely for the indesk computer or and use nothing for stand ups. I forget whether the BBC’s replacement for ENPS, OpenMedia, has an iPad app or iOS web interface. But if they want to at a minimum go paperless with a form or resiliency without worrying about app failures would be to save the rundown and scripts shortly before the TOTH and email it as a PDF.
(Incdenally one of the EPs of Megyn Kelly Today reportedly refused to learn iNews and required a senior staffer minutes before show time to email her the scripts. The EP would get pissed when cues for graphics would be in her email.)
SP
He certainly used to be a regular presenter of the UK Today bulletins on Breakfast.
Also didn't NickyS present UK Today or something like between 1999 and about 2005 if memory serves me right? Or would he have been a relief presenter.
He certainly used to be a regular presenter of the UK Today bulletins on Breakfast.
RK
Wasting half the sheet. Does the presenter really need to know half the code for graphics or what audio channel is open?
I say put the essentials inline like the story slug, a change in camera, when a guests introduced. Not all the code. There was reporter here at a local station who had to do a 30 second tease before the late local news. Five sentences spread across six pages all because of the code.
Paper scripts are not without their issues (having them in the wrong order, throwing the wrong ones away etc) but they never crash!!
Wasting half the sheet. Does the presenter really need to know half the code for graphics or what audio channel is open?
I say put the essentials inline like the story slug, a change in camera, when a guests introduced. Not all the code. There was reporter here at a local station who had to do a 30 second tease before the late local news. Five sentences spread across six pages all because of the code.
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NG
Wasting half the sheet. Does the presenter really need to know half the code for graphics or what audio channel is open?
I say put the essentials inline like the story slug, a change in camera, when a guests introduced. Not all the code. There was reporter here at a local station who had to do a 30 second tease before the late local news. Five sentences spread across six pages all because of the code.
ENPS allows you to design custom print layouts (not everyone bothers) that can make paper scripts significantly easier for talent to read, reducing the size of automation instructions etc. (which are usually replicated in the dialogue portion of the script for the talent in a more 'talent friendly' format anyway).
Paper scripts are kind of vital for any live newscast, and good presenters will always manage them effectively.
noggin
Founding member
Paper scripts are not without their issues (having them in the wrong order, throwing the wrong ones away etc) but they never crash!!
Wasting half the sheet. Does the presenter really need to know half the code for graphics or what audio channel is open?
I say put the essentials inline like the story slug, a change in camera, when a guests introduced. Not all the code. There was reporter here at a local station who had to do a 30 second tease before the late local news. Five sentences spread across six pages all because of the code.
ENPS allows you to design custom print layouts (not everyone bothers) that can make paper scripts significantly easier for talent to read, reducing the size of automation instructions etc. (which are usually replicated in the dialogue portion of the script for the talent in a more 'talent friendly' format anyway).
Paper scripts are kind of vital for any live newscast, and good presenters will always manage them effectively.
RN
Another small technical glitch at 3pm too, as the countdown abruptly stopped and went straight to Lukwesa in the studio about 30 seconds before the TOTH.
MC
Did anyone else notice how at the end of The Papers, the desk graphics just disappear just before they would have gone behind Martine's chair? It looks a bit strange when compared to the general slickness of those new graphics!
Also - on the inevitable scones debate: jam then cream
Also - on the inevitable scones debate: jam then cream