BBC News: Nations & Regions

I don't think Portsmouth winning the FA Cup is pointless! It's a huge story for this part of the world...

By the way has anyone got any screen caps of South Today's opening titles? As I can't make out all the place names they use, it goes far too fast to recognise more than a few...

There's some on my site here

I'm surprised no one has mentioned last Friday's BBC South opt out from network, 19:00 hrs until 19:30 for an FA Cup preview special.

I think they must have got a bunch of media studies students to produce the show. Wobbly camera work, I wasn't sure deliberate or just incompetence, no one had thought about racking the cameras on the OB at the Spinnaker Tower. Every one had different picture quality. The only decent bit, (technically) were the live inserts from the 'network' studio rig at Wembley.

The EPG on both Sky and Freeview saying; 'The One Show', completed the shambles.

Well I do.



Which was rubbish IMO. Last night's coverage was even worse. I'll be glad when it all dies down.

Note - Saints supporter in the building.

I might have known a jealous Southampton supporter was would try & bring down a proper celebration for the south coast...

To be fair to him, it'll be a long time before Southampton have anything to celebrate. A very long time.

True. They should be grateful they are still in the Hampshire Sunday league or whatever they are in now...

Thanks for that. Though it's still very hard to make out most of the place names...

I'm not bothered... we'll see Portsmouth again in 2009.

When they get relegated

But let's get back on topic now, shall we?

Not bothered? Seems like you are very bothered by it to bring it off topic in the first place...

Sorry if this has been mentioned. I've just watched a bit of last night's South Today online, and it was presented from a CSO recreation of N6! (Presenter standing up, single locked-off camera shot).

I assume that they're in CSO for the week, whilst a new set is installed in their usual studio (?). I bloody hope so. The current set is a right mish-mash of stuff from the past 9 years' worth of different generic looks.

Given that the temporary CSO set is an N6-clone, I wonder that the new real set will be an N6-clone too, a la Reporting Scotland?

Just watched a bit of last night's BBC Oxford News online too, who were in their mini-replica of the current Southampton set, as usual.

If Southampton are indeed changing their set this week, I hope that Oxford revamp likewise over the Bank Holiday weekend, so we don't end up with the same sort of "different eras" mismatch that Norwich and Cambridge currently have ( ).

Weirdly the pre-recorded Southampton headline insert during the headline sequence of BBC Oxford News, had the Southampton presenter sitting in the usual current set.

Presumably this was recorded between 1730-1800, and was the last thing ever to be presented from the out-going Southampton set.

The live stuff at the Spinnaker was rubbish, but some of the pre-recorded stuff at the training grounds with Harry were lovely, awesome depth of field on some shots, followed, annoyingly by shockingly bad ones but for who it was aimed at it was more than suitable.

And can anyone confirm/deny new set at South Today rumors?