The Newsroom

"BBC WORLD"

Welcome to Juliette Foster - Former Sky Anchor joins World (September 2004)

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
CO
cortomaltese
BBC WORLD posted:
The double header with Laura Trevelyan and Mike Embley is a right mess tonight, with endless errors and wrong cameras and missed cues and so on.....

I am bemused as to why they bring Laura Trevelyan in to anchor this slot, when Manisha Tank is already there in the NY studio. Manisha is more than capable of co anchoring with London.

In fact she is in the tiny NY studio right now alongside Laura, presenting the business slot. Guto Harri is there too.


Well, last Friday Manisha was the main presenter of both WBR and the news. I wonder who did the business during the two bulletins, probably Manisha herself.
PH
Phen
The tower was giving trouble at TOTH just now - it was absent for the headlines and then appeared after the titles but it didn't twizzle like normal - it just wiped upwards. And the wierdest part - it was spinning the WRONG WAY at about half the speed it normally does!

And what's with the countdown - its back in sync but they're showing the same version over and over at each TOTH.
EY
the eye
Phen posted:
The tower was giving trouble at TOTH just now - it was absent for the headlines and then appeared after the titles but it didn't twizzle like normal - it just wiped upwards. And the wierdest part - it was spinning the WRONG WAY at about half the speed it normally does!

And what's with the countdown - its back in sync but they're showing the same version over and over at each TOTH.


Yea, im getting sick of the same countdown version being played, theyve got 3 other versions, and they never play them.
EY
the eye
Whats up with the tower!! The animation on screen was a powerpoint effect! and then the globe started going backwards and forwards extremely slooooooooooooooow, then it started going the wrong way! and its taken more than 3 minutes to do a full spin!
EY
the eye
Oh deary me!! That TOWER is out of control!!!!! Just at the bottom of the hour it was spinning around about 100 times a second!!! then it switched to the tower we see during overnights.
GR
gregmc
bbcworld2005 posted:
Oh deary me!! That TOWER is out of control!!!!! Just at the bottom of the hour it was spinning around about 100 times a second!!! then it switched to the tower we see during overnights.


Remember Kids.... Dont Take Drugs... or you will end up like Mr TOG.

Laughing
EY
the eye
The TOG is now a red box with white logo and URL on it.
EY
the eye
The tower is now back to normal this hour.
EY
the eye
Every hour for the passed 5 hours, they've played out the same countdown.
PH
Phen
More like every hour for the last 5 days! But seriously, I think that version they're playing is the only one they can actually play in sync so that's why they're using it continuously.
GE
thegeek Founding member
As I mentioned earlier, they've brought the new Asia Pacific feed online from the Broadcast Centre, which is probably making playout a little busier than usual. It's possible that they're letting it bed in a bit before worrying about frivolities such as changing the countdown...
MA
Matrix
thegeek posted:
As I mentioned earlier, they've brought the new Asia Pacific feed online from the Broadcast Centre, which is probably making playout a little busier than usual. It's possible that they're letting it bed in a bit before worrying about frivolities such as changing the countdown...


Possibly but there is problems wth the syn of the countdown, certain ones play out alot faster than the music.

Newer posts