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BBC World News: Presentation

The BBC's Global 24 Hour News Channel (April 2008)

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KE
kenneth
WN is now Widescreen in Asia Pacific.
BY
byron
Still no WS from Singapore. The studio needs a bit of a revamp, the frosted globe stuff should be put on the window with a projection like NY and the same desk as NY and London.
I would also like to see more content come out of Singapore, maybe a nightly news bulletin modelled on CNNI's World News Asia. Both AJE and CNNI have a decent Asia office it's about time BBC did the same.
EA
eanok
The inauguration coverage on BBC World is a mess. The guy in Alabama kept asking stupid questions and now a strage woman in New York is giggling when talking to Jon. BBC has more decent correspondents who are capable of doing this coverage properly I suppose.
FL
flaziola
eanok posted:
The inauguration coverage on BBC World is a mess. The guy in Alabama kept asking stupid questions and now a strage woman in New York is giggling when talking to Jon. BBC has more decent correspondents who are capable of doing this coverage properly I suppose.
That was June Saprong, former T4 presenter, what she had to do with anything is anybodys guess.
IS
Inspector Sands
flaziola posted:
That was June Saprong, former T4 presenter, what she had to do with anything is anybodys guess.


She's quite a political animal is June: http://politicsandthecity.com/
BA
bakamann
it seems that BBC World News has (once again) made some minor changes on the DOG and the ticker, by adding a few more pixels so that it will be seen on the TV screens that have 16:9 feeds,

but from what i see on Livestation, it still has the same size... is it for Asia-Pacific?

because it's somewhat irritating, the DOG is overlapping the lower-thirds (from what i guess) is from the News Channel during the Inaugural Ceremonies.
BA
baoren
byron posted:
Still no WS from Singapore. The studio needs a bit of a revamp, the frosted globe stuff should be put on the window with a projection like NY and the same desk as NY and London.
I would also like to see more content come out of Singapore, maybe a nightly news bulletin modelled on CNNI's World News Asia. Both AJE and CNNI have a decent Asia office it's about time BBC did the same.


BBC World appears to be in widescreen in Singapore, the black bars top and bottom of my screen 'grew' thicker. Confused
BA
bakamann
^ Philippines on the other hand have those black bars are now lesser... it's not anymore 14:9 but i think it's in 5:4 or 16:10... i don't know the difference. apologies.
EY
the eye
It's been widescreen in NZ since Tuesday.
MQ
Mr Q
Just on the switch to widescreen: I'm wondering if other BBC World News viewers and British viewers of BBC News find that the ticker text runs virtually along the bottom of their TV screen? I've checked this on two different TV screens - the text runs far closer to the bottom of the screen than any other TV channel I have access to with a ticker. I suspect on some screens the text might even get cut off. Perhaps I'm just accustomed to seeing a bit more empty space underneath the scrolling text, but it looks a little strange to me.
BY
byron
Mr Q posted:
Just on the switch to widescreen: I'm wondering if other BBC World News viewers and British viewers of BBC News find that the ticker text runs virtually along the bottom of their TV screen? I've checked this on two different TV screens - the text runs far closer to the bottom of the screen than any other TV channel I have access to with a ticker. I suspect on some screens the text might even get cut off. Perhaps I'm just accustomed to seeing a bit more empty space underneath the scrolling text, but it looks a little strange to me.


I noticed the same thing, I have a widescreen TV so it's fine on my tv but I wonder how it looks on some older tube tvs that are not flatscreen...
The smaller ticker looks rather strange.
EY
the eye
This is how it looks on my TV... (taken on cellphone)

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/bbcws.jpg

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