SA
Now everything has been passed to Babita Sharma for the rest of the night with "We now welcome viewers from the BBC News Channel as well as BBC world".
I honestly didn't think this would be such a big story for world to be covering, I expected it to be mentioned in the world ad breaks when we get UK news.
I honestly didn't think this would be such a big story for world to be covering, I expected it to be mentioned in the world ad breaks when we get UK news.
AC
BBC miles ahead with live coverage with Jeremy Cooke who has covered story from beginning. When I last flicked over to Sky News, they were reporting on press ethics, and a few minutes before that, some non-live, bad quality footage from scene, with bad quality sound as well.
Just yellow breaking news on Sky. Jannat Jalil on overnights on Sky this morning.
Just yellow breaking news on Sky. Jannat Jalil on overnights on Sky this morning.
WO
Sky News seem to have been caught unawares, or clearly don't have any reporters or camera teams available.
BBC miles ahead with live coverage with Jeremy Cooke who has covered story from beginning. When I last flicked over to Sky News, they were reporting on press ethics, and a few minutes before that, some non-live, bad quality footage from scene, with bad quality sound as well.
Just yellow breaking news on Sky. Jannat Jalil on overnights on Sky this morning.
Just yellow breaking news on Sky. Jannat Jalil on overnights on Sky this morning.
Sky News seem to have been caught unawares, or clearly don't have any reporters or camera teams available.
PC
The helicopter shot as it circled around the Olympic rings on the Thames today was nice, I thought. Well, it is a welcome change from being appalled by the revelations emerging from Leveson.
JA
james
Just seen some BBC London Astons appear on the News channel, when they crossed to an O/B with Danny Savage.
How does that happen?
How does that happen?
Ooooh any caps?
GE
Ooooh any caps?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/nonstick/n24a.png
This aston was on screen for about a second. When it disappeared, the live locator bug appeared.
The name strap then appeared again in the next report, but with the correct font size.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/nonstick/n24b.png
I suspect it was a simple cock-up. Perhaps the running order was re-jigged, and when the captions got moved around, something got missed, and the wrong aston ended up in the wrong place, and with the wrong template.
Nothing to get excited about, really.
thegeek
Founding member
Just seen some BBC London Astons appear on the News channel, when they crossed to an O/B with Danny Savage.
How does that happen?
How does that happen?
Ooooh any caps?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/nonstick/n24a.png
This aston was on screen for about a second. When it disappeared, the live locator bug appeared.
The name strap then appeared again in the next report, but with the correct font size.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/nonstick/n24b.png
I suspect it was a simple cock-up. Perhaps the running order was re-jigged, and when the captions got moved around, something got missed, and the wrong aston ended up in the wrong place, and with the wrong template.
Nothing to get excited about, really.
BB
Why are there two different versions of essentially the same super on the same system? I always assumed that the Regions and Nations had graphics that were slightly different (principally in the kerning, leading and size of the text) because they were using different (more limited? inferior?) equipment to the Television Centre studios - but this suggests that there are actually two distinct designs, and I'm a little unclear as to why.
Why shouldn't BBC London or any other region have the same-size typeface and identical character and line spacing as the National, NC and World News? I thought the point of the 2008 revamp was to introduce maximum commonality to BBC News output wherever practical, and to only offer distinctiveness through local branding.
The two different main super designs seems like a bit of an arbitrary distinction - the kind of thing that most people won't notice, but which somebody at some point must have had a reason to put into effect. I'm just completely at a loss to understand what that reason is at the moment.
Why shouldn't BBC London or any other region have the same-size typeface and identical character and line spacing as the National, NC and World News? I thought the point of the 2008 revamp was to introduce maximum commonality to BBC News output wherever practical, and to only offer distinctiveness through local branding.
The two different main super designs seems like a bit of an arbitrary distinction - the kind of thing that most people won't notice, but which somebody at some point must have had a reason to put into effect. I'm just completely at a loss to understand what that reason is at the moment.