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TM
tmorgan96
I got so excited then and then............
BA
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Worzel
New pushback being used on the News channel this evening showing the Top Stories whizing on and off screen and a slide pointing viewers to download the BBC News App.
BR
Brekkie
Is it just being used as a device to show breaking news when they might not be in rolling UK news mode?
WO
Worzel
Is it just being used as a device to show breaking news when they might not be in rolling UK news mode?


It was showing different top stories using different wipes/transitions than the usual pushback. Wasn't showing any Breaking News as such.
RK
Rkolsen
New pushback being used on the News channel this evening showing the Top Stories whizing on and off screen and a slide pointing viewers to download the BBC News App.

How often was it on screen? I can see it being useful for when they are airing back half hour program on weekends. They could make it appear at set times such as "on the 5s*" as a quick news round up and keep it on screen for two or three minutes and disappear.

*Not sure if TV in the U.K. is familiar with such a phrase. In this sense it means something appears every ten minutes - in my example the push back would appear at :X5 past the hour. The most common usuage in the US is on The Weather Channel where they have "local on the 8s" where the render engine (in HD it's essentially a Viz unit) takes the satellite feed at a local cable headend and inserts graphics of local weather forecasts and the local radar picture. Local stations in the morning typically use "on the Xs" (X being one of their channel number) for quick traffic and weather segments.
FL
flaziola
You seem to be suggesting they use it like the early days of the ticker, where it would only come up in pre recorded programmes in order to fulfill the headlines every 15 minutes promise.
WO
Worzel
New pushback being used on the News channel this evening showing the Top Stories whizing on and off screen and a slide pointing viewers to download the BBC News App.

How often was it on screen? I can see it being useful for when they are airing back half hour program on weekends. They could make it appear at set times such as "on the 5s*" as a quick news round up and keep it on screen for two or three minutes and disappear.

*Not sure if TV in the U.K. is familiar with such a phrase. In this sense it means something appears every ten minutes - in my example the push back would appear at :X5 past the hour. The most common usuage in the US is on The Weather Channel where they have "local on the 8s" where the render engine (in HD it's essentially a Viz unit) takes the satellite feed at a local cable headend and inserts graphics of local weather forecasts and the local radar picture. Local stations in the morning typically use "on the Xs" (X being one of their channel number) for quick traffic and weather segments.


It was used during the World simulcast of the US Election Debate Special with Katty Kay at 8pm yesterday.
It covered UK stories.
WA
watchingtv
I presume this is a new/recent change from Millbank as I am sure we've had this conversation before, thinking that Salford wasn't able to take control?

https://twitter.com/chrisckmedia/status/781163735050227712
MI
m_in_m
I presume this is a new/recent change from Millbank as I am sure we've had this conversation before, thinking that Salford wasn't able to take control?

https://twitter.com/chrisckmedia/status/781163735050227712

I don't think anyone has said that it isn't possible but more less practical then Millbank. The likelihood this just ensures should a similar circumstance occur as in the summer where a news summary needs to come from Salford it can with the standard music and titles. There probably aren't many circumstances when London wouldn't and I'm intrigued though we will never know as to why London wasn't able to on that occasion using the same fashion as other weekend news summaries.
BR
Brekkie
It was used during the World simulcast of the US Election Debate Special with Katty Kay at 8pm yesterday.
It covered UK stories.

So basically covering Sam Allardyce being sacked whilst the news channel itself wasn't.
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Worzel
It was used during the World simulcast of the US Election Debate Special with Katty Kay at 8pm yesterday.
It covered UK stories.

So basically covering Sam Allardyce being sacked whilst the news channel itself wasn't.


Not just that, other stories were being cycled as well.

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