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(January 2008)

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NO
Nooze
Connews posted:
Shame about the vid with George Galloway - it stalls after 3 secs. Any one know where I can find an alternate copy of it? Hmm... I wonder if it is on YT...

EDIT:
And so it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zMlRM2GBo is the link.


Channel 4 News have posted it on their website too
GI
gilsta
I saw the presenter operated screen in action for the first time this lunchtime, what a truly awful and pointless gimmick. Krishnan stuttered every time he touched the screen because he had to look back down to his notes rather than just reading the autocue, you could see the back of the studio and cameras in the screen's reflection and then best of all a video insert wasn't ready and appeared as colour bars.

I've seen CNN use such technology in their election coverage and it works because its not just a glorified powerpoint, they use it for interactive maps etc, on C4 it just looks pathetic.
BR
Brekkie
Maps is the only thing really it could come in useful for - I vaguely recall ITV News having some sort of touch screen for the Iraq War, but the screen controlled by the analyst was just for his view, with viewers getting a full screen version IIRC.
BE
Ben Founding member
Brekkie posted:
Maps is the only thing really it could come in useful for - I vaguely recall ITV News having some sort of touch screen for the Iraq War, but the screen controlled by the analyst was just for his view, with viewers getting a full screen version IIRC.


That would be the ITV News Locator, which was an idea copied from Sky.

52 days later

DA
David
Sneak preview of new Channel 4 News graphics launching tomorrow...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8tgS0gpvlg You've just been Snowed Rolled
AC
aconnell
it doesn't look any different to me.
RO
rob Founding member
erm... although that was funny, there were no new graphics. Evil or Very Mad
AD
adamcobb55
rfrancis51284 posted:
erm... although that was funny, there were no new graphics. Evil or Very Mad


Sigh... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Roll
GI
gilsta
rfrancis51284 posted:
erm... although that was funny, there were no new graphics. Evil or Very Mad


Jon's tie is now computer generated and changes after each report. Honestly.
BR
Brekkie
gilsta posted:
rfrancis51284 posted:
erm... although that was funny, there were no new graphics. Evil or Very Mad


Jon's tie is now computer generated and changes after each report. Honestly.


Now that would be an innovation which really added something to bulletins! Wink
JR
jrothwell97
gilsta posted:
rfrancis51284 posted:
erm... although that was funny, there were no new graphics. Evil or Very Mad


Jon's tie is now computer generated and changes after each report. Honestly.


Is it being beta tested before it goes live with Peter Sissons?

17 days later

LO
Londoner
C4N on Twitter
http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/01/channel-4-news-using-twitter-for-behind-the-scenes-coverage/

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