The Newsroom

BBC News strike

(May 2005)

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CA
calvinandhobbes
I think he's usually seen on one of their travel programmes or Click Online???
JU
juice
I think this is Live, but who is this bloke???

Anyone seen him before?

EDIT: is WORLD carrying this?? If this is a Live news24 newscast, it's strange UK news with Germany as the top story!
DJ
David Jonathan
juice posted:
I think this is Live, but who is this bloke???

Anyone seen him before?


Presenter of "Fast Track".
DO
Dog
You know Akhtar Kahn very occasionally pops up presenting on the BBC Asian Network under the physdo of 'Maz Kahn'.
PH
phil-g
Akthar Kahn doing News 24. It it is live, and they had a wide shot of the studio, so it seems as though they have managed to keep it up and running. The headlines did cokc up slightly though, they lost pictures of one of the headlines.
BB
BBC TV Centre
Adam posted:
Usual countdown on N24 into.... some weird asian man who doesn't know where the camera is. Looks live.


Not as 'smooth' as it usually is - about a second of silence between the end of the countdown and headline bed together with black screen where one of the videos are supposed to be - I take it the managers are now in control of the desk?
PC
p_c_u_k
Looks live but a really clumsy headline round-up with an awkward gap, the screen going blank for 10 seconds, missing VT and a presenter who doesn't look like or act like he's ever been on TV before.

Could be teething problems to start with, so shouldn't be slated yet.

BBC World and News 24 are still broadcasting the same programme, but this one is live. However the two normally merge at this time of night anyway - it's the quality of presentation which is up for debate.

And no, hopefully we won't keep up this level of detail all night - it's just the early stages that I'm keeping a particular eye on.
W1
w12
Londoner posted:
Oh God - it's that dreadful Akthar Khan guy.


It is indeed Akhtar Khan.... who was on News 24 a few years ago, then got moved onto ther travel programme.

The director is a bloke from World who doesn't agree with the strike. Surprisingly senior editorial managers are doing the output, struggling with the kit. Impressively, they've managed to get the right insets on the top two stories. Autocue staff aren't employed by the BBC but by Autocue.

This is just recycling material that was already in the system. A bigger test will be when new stories come along in the morning.
LO
Londoner
Biography of Akhtar Khan
DO
Dog
5 Live is embarrasing. They're playing out the whole of 'Sporting Century' which will take about 7 hours, but he newsreader (Chandrika Chevly) is makeing a total tit of herself when doing the 'now a change to our scheduled programme' links, bursting into fits of laughter.
JU
juice
Next bit of TV i'm monitoring is the close of BBC2 at 01:30 then re-opening at 02:00 to see if that is handled at all well, we shall see......
W1
w12
juice posted:


EDIT: is WORLD carrying this?? If this is a Live news24 newscast, it's strange UK news with Germany as the top story!


It'll only be one stream all day from News 24 - for 24, World and the BBC1 bulletins. The level of automation means fewer people are needed (assuming they can get the material into the system in the first place - no test of that so far)

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