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rdd
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Wonder why its not used on all bulittens though? Surely if they devised it solely for the Boulton Factor, it would say "The Boulton Factor" rather than simply "Vote 2005 - Sky News". The Boulton Factor logo itself only appears on the monitor in the background.
That "Election Alert" aston that's constantly on screen is rather unnecessary IMO, and just takes up space. All it seems to do is trail Sky News' election features. I notice story titles have been dropped in favour of the Vote 2005 slug, ironic given that they were first introduced on Sky News with the 2001 election look!
Sky News Ireland, for what its worth, is still using the standard graphics, giving us a half-hours rest from that election slug...
That "Election Alert" aston that's constantly on screen is rather unnecessary IMO, and just takes up space. All it seems to do is trail Sky News' election features. I notice story titles have been dropped in favour of the Vote 2005 slug, ironic given that they were first introduced on Sky News with the 2001 election look!
Sky News Ireland, for what its worth, is still using the standard graphics, giving us a half-hours rest from that election slug...
NE
Love those clean tidy graphics from Sky News. Not like them at all to be honest. Hopefully we will see more of those in the future.
Yeah, I love that graphic very simple and classy.
Not liking their strap like, whats with 'Election Alert'?? I hope thats just on because its been called today and its not going to be like that up until the election.
fusionlad posted:
Love those clean tidy graphics from Sky News. Not like them at all to be honest. Hopefully we will see more of those in the future.
Yeah, I love that graphic very simple and classy.
Not liking their strap like, whats with 'Election Alert'?? I hope thats just on because its been called today and its not going to be like that up until the election.
MR
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Love those clean tidy graphics from Sky News. Not like them at all to be honest. Hopefully we will see more of those in the future.
Yeah, I love that graphich very simple and classy.
Not liking their strap like, whats with 'Election Alert'?? I hope thats just on because its been called today and its not going to be like that up until the election.
My thoughts exactly. The red bar has disappeared briefly tonight, when covering other stories, and it looks so much better.
fusionlad
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North East posted:
fusionlad posted:
Love those clean tidy graphics from Sky News. Not like them at all to be honest. Hopefully we will see more of those in the future.
Yeah, I love that graphich very simple and classy.
Not liking their strap like, whats with 'Election Alert'?? I hope thats just on because its been called today and its not going to be like that up until the election.
My thoughts exactly. The red bar has disappeared briefly tonight, when covering other stories, and it looks so much better.
WI
william
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Do we know what 'Election Roadshow' is or who's doing it? (as advertised for BBC2 in the BBC press pack).
No 'Campaign Today' on News 24 this time it seems (unsurprisingly given the bus, Daily Politics every day on BBC2, a second edition of 'This Week' etc. etc., but possibly also because Nick Robinson's long since left).
EDIT: Managed to dig out a few details. 'Roadshow' is Sally Magnussen and sounds a bit like 'Your Call' or whatever the daily phone-in used to be called.
No 'Campaign Today' on News 24 this time it seems (unsurprisingly given the bus, Daily Politics every day on BBC2, a second edition of 'This Week' etc. etc., but possibly also because Nick Robinson's long since left).
EDIT: Managed to dig out a few details. 'Roadshow' is Sally Magnussen and sounds a bit like 'Your Call' or whatever the daily phone-in used to be called.
JA
jay
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More details on Sky News' coverage: (from Sky Digi Online)
Sky News has today begun its General Elections coverage by launching a 'Sky News Interest Index' box on the bottom of the screen.
A Sky News 'Worm Polls' will also appear in the same box which will bring speeches from politicans as they come in.
Sky News have also announced further details of its elections coverage for the coming weeks promising viewers the fastest, most lively and information rich coverage of the Campaign and Election Night.
At 2100 on Thursday 5 May Sky News’ Election Night programme airs. Vote 05 will be anchored by Julie Etchingham - the first time a woman has anchored a British General Election show - and Adam Boulton, Britain's best political interviewer.
Sky News will use the latest computer technology to present the Election results in a way not seen before. The show will be Sky's most innovative election programme yet - the channel is covering its fourth General Election - with state of the art graphics and live cameras at the key counts. Kay Burley will be using the SkyCopter to drop in on key locations on the night.
Sky News Active will offer digital viewers the chance to watch 16 different screens. A 'Constituency Picker' will give them their local constituency result at the press of the red button - again, a first in electoral TV history.
Sky News' Political Editor Adam Boulton will lead the channel’s coverage of the campaign. He'll present an hour of election news twice nightly on the Boulton Factor. The programme will be presented live from Sky’s studios at the heart of Westminster,Monday - Friday at 7pm and 11pm and on Saturdays at 11pm. It will offer in-depth analysis of the day's events and interviews with all the main players.
Throughout Sky News’ 24-hour coverage the team will scrutinise every Campaign promise and pledge. The Sky News Reality Check will use the best research and state of the art graphics to examine the parties' claims and rhetoric.
Sky News viewers will be first to get the latest opinion polls. The pioneering on-screen poll-bug will give constant and up-to-the-minute polling information, every minute of every day from the moment the election is called. In partnership with Internet pollster YouGov Sky News will test what the voters think of key election speeches and events through a ground breaking polling technique that allows respondents to rate a politician's performance.
From Monday 11th April, Sky News will be live in the key marginal constituency of Rossendale and Darwen in Lancashire. Broadcasting live from Swingseat in the weeks leading up to the Election day, Sky's Kay Burley and Robert Nisbet get instant and on the ground reaction to the campaign's twists and turns.
For Sky Across Britain David Bowden will use the SkyCopter to travel the length and breadth of the country testing public opinion on all the big Election issues.
Throughout the campaign, Sky's If I Were Prime Minister series will give a range of public figures the chance to tell what they would do if they were in Downing Street. Contributors include poet Benjamin Zephaniah, singer and songwriter Billy Bragg, Fiona Miller and Iraq war commander Colonel Tim Collins.
Teams of correspondents will be with the key camps throughout the campaign, reporting on their every move. Andrew Wilson and Michelle Clifford will be with Tony Blair; Emma Hurd and Dominic Waghorn will report on Michael Howard’s campaign and Greg Milam and Lisa Holland will travel with Charles Kennedy.
The build up to Election Night will be fully reported online. Sky.com/news will provide detailed political news and interactive analysis.
Sky News has today begun its General Elections coverage by launching a 'Sky News Interest Index' box on the bottom of the screen.
A Sky News 'Worm Polls' will also appear in the same box which will bring speeches from politicans as they come in.
Sky News have also announced further details of its elections coverage for the coming weeks promising viewers the fastest, most lively and information rich coverage of the Campaign and Election Night.
At 2100 on Thursday 5 May Sky News’ Election Night programme airs. Vote 05 will be anchored by Julie Etchingham - the first time a woman has anchored a British General Election show - and Adam Boulton, Britain's best political interviewer.
Sky News will use the latest computer technology to present the Election results in a way not seen before. The show will be Sky's most innovative election programme yet - the channel is covering its fourth General Election - with state of the art graphics and live cameras at the key counts. Kay Burley will be using the SkyCopter to drop in on key locations on the night.
Sky News Active will offer digital viewers the chance to watch 16 different screens. A 'Constituency Picker' will give them their local constituency result at the press of the red button - again, a first in electoral TV history.
Sky News' Political Editor Adam Boulton will lead the channel’s coverage of the campaign. He'll present an hour of election news twice nightly on the Boulton Factor. The programme will be presented live from Sky’s studios at the heart of Westminster,Monday - Friday at 7pm and 11pm and on Saturdays at 11pm. It will offer in-depth analysis of the day's events and interviews with all the main players.
Throughout Sky News’ 24-hour coverage the team will scrutinise every Campaign promise and pledge. The Sky News Reality Check will use the best research and state of the art graphics to examine the parties' claims and rhetoric.
Sky News viewers will be first to get the latest opinion polls. The pioneering on-screen poll-bug will give constant and up-to-the-minute polling information, every minute of every day from the moment the election is called. In partnership with Internet pollster YouGov Sky News will test what the voters think of key election speeches and events through a ground breaking polling technique that allows respondents to rate a politician's performance.
From Monday 11th April, Sky News will be live in the key marginal constituency of Rossendale and Darwen in Lancashire. Broadcasting live from Swingseat in the weeks leading up to the Election day, Sky's Kay Burley and Robert Nisbet get instant and on the ground reaction to the campaign's twists and turns.
For Sky Across Britain David Bowden will use the SkyCopter to travel the length and breadth of the country testing public opinion on all the big Election issues.
Throughout the campaign, Sky's If I Were Prime Minister series will give a range of public figures the chance to tell what they would do if they were in Downing Street. Contributors include poet Benjamin Zephaniah, singer and songwriter Billy Bragg, Fiona Miller and Iraq war commander Colonel Tim Collins.
Teams of correspondents will be with the key camps throughout the campaign, reporting on their every move. Andrew Wilson and Michelle Clifford will be with Tony Blair; Emma Hurd and Dominic Waghorn will report on Michael Howard’s campaign and Greg Milam and Lisa Holland will travel with Charles Kennedy.
The build up to Election Night will be fully reported online. Sky.com/news will provide detailed political news and interactive analysis.
CA
The old BBC election show was 'Election Call', Sky had 'Your Call'.
Election Call ran for a fair few elections, but was mostly abandoned at the last campaign. Sky seem to not be bothering with Your Call this time around.
WORMs are not done through mobile phones, they're done through a sort of Who Wants to be a Millionaire system, whereby a panel of undecided voters listen to a speech and twist a knob which reflects their opinion on what is being said at that time - positive or negative - and a graph is produced showing whether what's just been said 1 second ago went down well or badly. They're interesting, but pointless. I suspect Sky are just doing it to show a bit more public involvement, and trying to liven up otherwise exceptionally dull speeches.
Love what Sky have done to the Westminster studio.
Agree about the strap, though. Whilst I don't think it is distracting, I do think it just needs to be put away for the night. The red bar is pointless too. They be better just leaving up the Vote 05 slug and leaving it at that.
Election Call ran for a fair few elections, but was mostly abandoned at the last campaign. Sky seem to not be bothering with Your Call this time around.
WORMs are not done through mobile phones, they're done through a sort of Who Wants to be a Millionaire system, whereby a panel of undecided voters listen to a speech and twist a knob which reflects their opinion on what is being said at that time - positive or negative - and a graph is produced showing whether what's just been said 1 second ago went down well or badly. They're interesting, but pointless. I suspect Sky are just doing it to show a bit more public involvement, and trying to liven up otherwise exceptionally dull speeches.
Love what Sky have done to the Westminster studio.
Agree about the strap, though. Whilst I don't think it is distracting, I do think it just needs to be put away for the night. The red bar is pointless too. They be better just leaving up the Vote 05 slug and leaving it at that.
WI
I'm no mod.
Dead right. So keep out. If it worries you that much, report it.
winifred: I cannot stress enough how little I care about your university. Frankly, I think you're lying, because you come across as having all the intellect of a schoolchild, but that's besides the point.
I think your obsession with universities is probably indicative of the fact that you're not yet at one, and probably still waiting for your UCAS form. With regards to the admissions people slitting their wrists for letting me in, not entire sure where the logic is in that, but I think debating it would be pointless.
Again, I suggest you go away, stop telling everyone about universities, and hop off to the Bitesize website to do some more revision.
For goodness sake cat, why are you getting so worked up over comments I've written on an internet site, it's absolutely pathetic and it just makes me laugh. The anger you're conveying just shows your low level of maturity. The world does not revole around ''TV Forum'', hence I find it hard to comprehend the infuriation you portray whenever I write a post. You (as well as many others) take ''TV Forum'' far too seriously. If it were an academic website, I would understand the points you're making. However, TV Forum ( ''The Newsroom'' inparticular) is an informal public website where ANYBODY is entitle to write ANYTHING about the News, News channels and Newsreaders. In future, if you don't like the comments I or someone else has written, I suggest you ignore them instead of becoming stressed and writing vile comments as can be seen below.
Will you please just go away.
You're lingering around here when nobody listens to you. Nobody wants you here; people have even started campaigns to get rid of you. Just do everyone a favour and f*ck off.
And why aren't you in school, for god's sake.
I can't believe you have the audacity to call me a sceondary school child when you write comments such as these and also claim to be a university student!
I mentioned that the Admissions Tutor who admitted you are slitting their wrists because I'm sure they're regretting allowing a shallow and judgemental person like you to step foot in their institution.
Anyway, I'm at a top ten university and I don't care if you believe me or not because you are nothing to me.
Goodbye
cat posted:
James Hall posted:
I'm no mod.
Dead right. So keep out. If it worries you that much, report it.
winifred: I cannot stress enough how little I care about your university. Frankly, I think you're lying, because you come across as having all the intellect of a schoolchild, but that's besides the point.
I think your obsession with universities is probably indicative of the fact that you're not yet at one, and probably still waiting for your UCAS form. With regards to the admissions people slitting their wrists for letting me in, not entire sure where the logic is in that, but I think debating it would be pointless.
Again, I suggest you go away, stop telling everyone about universities, and hop off to the Bitesize website to do some more revision.
For goodness sake cat, why are you getting so worked up over comments I've written on an internet site, it's absolutely pathetic and it just makes me laugh. The anger you're conveying just shows your low level of maturity. The world does not revole around ''TV Forum'', hence I find it hard to comprehend the infuriation you portray whenever I write a post. You (as well as many others) take ''TV Forum'' far too seriously. If it were an academic website, I would understand the points you're making. However, TV Forum ( ''The Newsroom'' inparticular) is an informal public website where ANYBODY is entitle to write ANYTHING about the News, News channels and Newsreaders. In future, if you don't like the comments I or someone else has written, I suggest you ignore them instead of becoming stressed and writing vile comments as can be seen below.
cat posted:
Will you please just go away.
You're lingering around here when nobody listens to you. Nobody wants you here; people have even started campaigns to get rid of you. Just do everyone a favour and f*ck off.
And why aren't you in school, for god's sake.
I can't believe you have the audacity to call me a sceondary school child when you write comments such as these and also claim to be a university student!
I mentioned that the Admissions Tutor who admitted you are slitting their wrists because I'm sure they're regretting allowing a shallow and judgemental person like you to step foot in their institution.
Anyway, I'm at a top ten university and I don't care if you believe me or not because you are nothing to me.
Goodbye
DU
I'm going to use this slot to ignore winifred (hard to be honest) and big-up Newsnight.
They had a lovely piece from Milton Keynes on how WORM-like technology works- I personally think it's quite an interesting concept for viewers as long as the panel size is reasonable enough to make it worthwhile.
But besides that- Newsnight has perhaps unsurprisingly delievered by far the best coverage of the election I've seen today (I know it's easy when you've got only got 50 minutes to fill).....Michael Crick in "Newsnight 1" (that's a helicopter) is going to make great viewing, and unlike almost all other coverage.
On his first day flying he's got the lib dem defector embarassed by his zero knowledge of the party he's just joined, got the labour leader in the area to admit that labour central office has parachuted in a new candidate without consultation, and showed Michael Howard hiding in a helicopter away from any questioning/person not vetted by Tory Central office.
Keep it up- the true news behind the election.
Also lovely use of the Newsnight Review studio (desk bizarrely uplight red)...quite a cosy zone for a review of the strategy of the main parties and the all important morning paper review (queue vomit at tomorrow's Mirror).
All in all top stuff...and as a bonus to all viewers, Peter Snow will be swinging every Saturday night.
OK, he's using his Swingometer to analyse the polls on Saturday Newsnight's for the rest of the campaign.
I think the presence of Newsnight in the BBC schedules makes it quite hard for News 24 to justify their own analysis slot unless it comes much earlier in the evening, probably without the opportunity for full analysis of the day's events anyway. But yes, with direct comparison to Sky News and the Boulton Factor, it is going to look a bit weak.
They had a lovely piece from Milton Keynes on how WORM-like technology works- I personally think it's quite an interesting concept for viewers as long as the panel size is reasonable enough to make it worthwhile.
But besides that- Newsnight has perhaps unsurprisingly delievered by far the best coverage of the election I've seen today (I know it's easy when you've got only got 50 minutes to fill).....Michael Crick in "Newsnight 1" (that's a helicopter) is going to make great viewing, and unlike almost all other coverage.
On his first day flying he's got the lib dem defector embarassed by his zero knowledge of the party he's just joined, got the labour leader in the area to admit that labour central office has parachuted in a new candidate without consultation, and showed Michael Howard hiding in a helicopter away from any questioning/person not vetted by Tory Central office.
Keep it up- the true news behind the election.
Also lovely use of the Newsnight Review studio (desk bizarrely uplight red)...quite a cosy zone for a review of the strategy of the main parties and the all important morning paper review (queue vomit at tomorrow's Mirror).
All in all top stuff...and as a bonus to all viewers, Peter Snow will be swinging every Saturday night.
OK, he's using his Swingometer to analyse the polls on Saturday Newsnight's for the rest of the campaign.
I think the presence of Newsnight in the BBC schedules makes it quite hard for News 24 to justify their own analysis slot unless it comes much earlier in the evening, probably without the opportunity for full analysis of the day's events anyway. But yes, with direct comparison to Sky News and the Boulton Factor, it is going to look a bit weak.
DU
Oh, and I also can't help but heaping praise on Paxman who has clearly joined my campaign against weather on the BBC news services (see News 24 Thread).
Some 'bigwigs' decided Newsnight was going to have to do a flyover weather forcast as of this week (some of you may have seen it on BBC Three News- it's the same thing). Some choice paraphrases from Monday's Paxman forcast:
"Dry on the east, except where it rains"
"Cold everywhere, but maybe warm"
And from tonight simply- "You'll need a brolly"
Paxman: Overated interviewer- yes. Seeing sense when it comes to the BBC Weaher policy- definitely.
Some 'bigwigs' decided Newsnight was going to have to do a flyover weather forcast as of this week (some of you may have seen it on BBC Three News- it's the same thing). Some choice paraphrases from Monday's Paxman forcast:
"Dry on the east, except where it rains"
"Cold everywhere, but maybe warm"
And from tonight simply- "You'll need a brolly"
Paxman: Overated interviewer- yes. Seeing sense when it comes to the BBC Weaher policy- definitely.