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intheknow
The new Washington set appeared on News 24 earlier this evening for coverage of the US Elections. Its quite good, although the lighting looks a bit iffy from the wide angle, and it is quite small.

The backdrop is much better than the last, with three rear projector screens showing a view of the Capitol building. It does look as though it is actually a window, in fact it looks simular to the view out of the FOX News Washington DC studio, which is a real glass window.
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TVAND
Can someone post a caption of the washington studio . I will really appreciate that. Thanks
WT
The World Today
intheknow posted:
The World Today posted:
The World Today 12/10/04

Nice to see Ms Bundock back today, but I noticed something very odd; I'll try and explain.

When BBC News launched their new graphics last December and whilst watching TWT you often would see the BBC World bug animate on and the News 24 bug animate over it, now the News 24 bug is keyed over a different source which obviously doesn't have the BBC World bug on it becuase we never see it anymore and its always a clean transition. This morning I noticed in the background where I could see a News 24 off air monitor and a World off air monitor the supers on TWT's World Business Report were different styles.

World supers used the WBR branded supers with the blue part on the right and some WBR type graphics on the main top bar.

Meanwhile on News 24 they used the standard red and black news supers i.e. not WBR branded.

The only reason I mention this is becuase if I'm right it is very odd to have two different styles of supers on the same programme for different clients. I can understand World and N24 using different bugs but giving N24 the non WBR supers is obviously going to take some effort.

I guess what I'm trying to establish is A) Am I correct? and B) How is it achieved & why?


IIRC it was disscused a few months ago that N8 and N9 now have the ability to control each other's tOG (the device that generates the tower and graphics) without needing someone to manually control the device in the other gallery. So, if this is the case, for The World Today it looks like News 24 now take a clean source of N9 without any tOG generated graphics, and the content added by the director in the World gallery is syndicated to the tOG in N8, and is automatically generated and superimposed on the News 24 feed.


Thanks so much for that, interesting to know.

Now I'm sure everyone knows the answer to this but what does tOG stand for?
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Pete Founding member
The World Today posted:
Now I'm sure everyone knows the answer to this but what does tOG stand for?


TOG Orientated Graphics. It's self-replicating. The graphics are generated by TOG and are aligned to the TOG.
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snarfu
Tog has no meaning as an acronym.

It is a reference to a children's show character

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9634/
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Moz
Hymagumba posted:
The World Today posted:
Now I'm sure everyone knows the answer to this but what does tOG stand for?


TOG Orientated Graphics. It's self-replicating. The graphics are generated by TOG and are aligned to the TOG.


No, they're aligned to the Tower . The Tower - as far as I'm aware - is the bit with BBC NEWS 24, the globe and the clock, and the graphics which align to it are the TOG graphics. I presume TOG is T ower O rientated G raphics.
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itsrobert Founding member
Moz posted:
Hymagumba posted:
The World Today posted:
Now I'm sure everyone knows the answer to this but what does tOG stand for?


TOG Orientated Graphics. It's self-replicating. The graphics are generated by TOG and are aligned to the TOG.


No, they're aligned to the Tower . The Tower - as far as I'm aware - is the bit with BBC NEWS 24, the globe and the clock, and the graphics which align to it are the TOG graphics. I presume TOG is T ower O rientated G raphics.


No, TOG is just the system that handles all the animated astons, the tower and the live titles.
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BBC LDN
Moving the conversation away from acronym debate - stimulating though it clearly is - I've been meaning to bring something up for a while. I flew up to Leeds a couple of weeks ago, and as it was all on company money, I thought I'd take advantage of checking in at London Paddington and taking the Heathrow Express in, which I've not done for a while.

I was surprised to find the old 2002 countdown still being used before the pre-recorded BBC WORLD news bulletin onboard. All other graphics in use are of the standard WORLD variety - right down to the 'RECORDED' bug - so does anyone know why the old countdown is still being used?
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Gavin Scott Founding member
Bogaboy19 posted:
Can someone post a caption of the washington studio . I will really appreciate that. Thanks


I too would like to see this if anyone is able.

Mucho gracias.
WT
The World Today
BBC LDN posted:
Moving the conversation away from acronym debate - stimulating though it clearly is - I've been meaning to bring something up for a while. I flew up to Leeds a couple of weeks ago, and as it was all on company money, I thought I'd take advantage of checking in at London Paddington and taking the Heathrow Express in, which I've not done for a while.

I was surprised to find the old 2002 countdown still being used before the pre-recorded BBC WORLD news bulletin onboard. All other graphics in use are of the standard WORLD variety - right down to the 'RECORDED' bug - so does anyone know why the old countdown is still being used?


Gee thanks BBC LDN for moving it back to something stimulating I was worried that we might start talking about news on trains next Shocked oh we are! Wink
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BBC LDN
The World Today posted:
Gee thanks BBC LDN for moving it back to something stimulating I was worried that we might start talking about news on trains next Shocked oh we are! Wink


My dear bunyon, it was a much needed change of subject, and although in and of itself it's hardly the epitome of thrilling conversation, variety is still more entertaining than monotony. And while I have acknowledged that requesting an answer to a question about a news bulletin on a train isn't exactly an all-out thrill, it still beats talking about presenter shift patterns, which seems to be the peak of your repertoire.
WT
The World Today
BBC LDN posted:
The World Today posted:
Gee thanks BBC LDN for moving it back to something stimulating I was worried that we might start talking about news on trains next Shocked oh we are! Wink


My dear bunyon, it was a much needed change of subject, and although in and of itself it's hardly the epitome of thrilling conversation, variety is still more entertaining than monotony. And while I have acknowledged that requesting an answer to a question about a news bulletin on a train isn't exactly an all-out thrill, it still beats talking about presenter shift patterns, which seems to be the peak of your repertoire.


I seem to have touched a nerve! Lighten up I was kidding.

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