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UK Local and European Elections (May 2014)

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bilky asko
Worzel posted:
Yuck the BBC News Breaking News aston looks ghastly. Why can't they just use the templates used at NBH? It can't be that difficult to replicate the same generic graphics set on a different Viz machine?


Clearly it's more of a faff to alter the graphics to take the votes bar into account, change the transitions, and add relevant coloured graphics, than it is to start from scratch.
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ginnyfan
Was the news update the same for both World and News channel? World got Dani Sinha (???) from studio C but with the newsroom background.
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AxG
The BBC graphics seem far better than what they've had before.
Media Boy and gordonthegopher gave kudos
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samwsmith1
ginnyfan posted:
Was the news update the same for both World and News channel? World got Dani Sinha (???) from studio C but with the newsroom background.

Martine Croxall provided the news update in the UK from studio E.
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VMPhil
bilky asko posted:
Worzel posted:
Yuck the BBC News Breaking News aston looks ghastly. Why can't they just use the templates used at NBH? It can't be that difficult to replicate the same generic graphics set on a different Viz machine?


Clearly it's more of a faff to alter the graphics to take the votes bar into account, change the transitions, and add relevant coloured graphics, than it is to start from scratch.

At least it isn't as bad as BBC Parliament's attempt.
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Isonstine Founding member
The graphics tonight seem a lot more traditional BBC News Channel style as opposed to a revised version of the Vote 2010 graphics which featured different transitions. I wonder is this a conscious change since broadcasting on Thursday/Friday as the graphics were largely based on the Vote 2010 graphics but just designed in the current style.
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Pete Founding member
WW Update posted:
Isonstine posted:

The point of the law (however ridiculous) is to prevent the reporting of polling data/exit polls where it might be seen by other voters who still have the opportunity to vote. That story can be reported as it doesn't give any figures or indicate who is in last place but merely that the party's leader believes that having reviewed their own data that they will be in first place.


This makes sense -- but are foreign exit polls embargoed in the UK as well? Surely a UK voter won't be influenced by how well the SPD performs in Germany, for instance.


Given the coalition style of the european parliament in theory there would be a minor gain as you could calculate who'd potentially be able to group up with local parties. Obviously it's a practical impossibility but we *are* all voting in the same election which I think is what matters more. The fact we stopped voting here on Thursday is irrelevant as others, elsewhere, are voting in the same event. It just doesn't take it account that despite the poll being open, it cannot really have any realistic effect on voting intentions.
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Andrew Founding member
No idea why they've used that satellite image style map for Jeremy Vine's section, why not just use a plain map. It just makes a complicated map with loads of colours on even more complicated for no reason.
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bilky asko
My favourite image of the night:
http://weatherfieldgazette.co.uk/norris/vineruinvr.png
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fanoftv
I'm guessing by the comments and links that Jeremy Vine's VR is a great box built as part of the set within the same studio rather than being some where totally different which makes the VR to studio links very seem less.
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bilky asko
fanoftv posted:
I'm guessing by the comments and links that Jeremy Vine's VR is a great box built as part of the set within the same studio rather than being some where totally different which makes the VR to studio links very seem less.

Yes - this was the case in 2010 too.
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mdtauk
Poor Netherlands

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