DV
The Hip-Hop reference relates to Wed 5th's 8pm Newsnight, during which Paxman interviewed Dizzee Rascal.
MM
Why mention Paxman? The BBC's coverage was fronted by Dimbleby, with Matt Frei and Jeremy Vine. Didn't see much of Paxman at all - and I watched until 4am and didn't see any Hip Hop. (That probably relates to a previous UK election show?)
From what the previous correspondent wrote, I was referring to Jeremy Paxman's interview of Dizzee Rascal and the BBC British General Election 2005, when the BBC portrayed then-Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell dressed in a turtle suit as "down with the kids" and when the BBC were about to update us with the Lib Dem's chances on Peter Snow's Swingometer, the rap song from 50 Cent "In Da Club" [what a stupid title] played and Jeremy did his dancing, damaging his credibility.
noggin posted:
McMahon posted:
I praise ITV's coverage in presentation and giving out information in a more concise way than the BBC's.
Jeremy Vine's hip-hop dancing and the abrasive Jeremy Paxman puts me off the BBC.
Jeremy Vine's hip-hop dancing and the abrasive Jeremy Paxman puts me off the BBC.
Why mention Paxman? The BBC's coverage was fronted by Dimbleby, with Matt Frei and Jeremy Vine. Didn't see much of Paxman at all - and I watched until 4am and didn't see any Hip Hop. (That probably relates to a previous UK election show?)
From what the previous correspondent wrote, I was referring to Jeremy Paxman's interview of Dizzee Rascal and the BBC British General Election 2005, when the BBC portrayed then-Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell dressed in a turtle suit as "down with the kids" and when the BBC were about to update us with the Lib Dem's chances on Peter Snow's Swingometer, the rap song from 50 Cent "In Da Club" [what a stupid title] played and Jeremy did his dancing, damaging his credibility.
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I see that in the US they make projections on the college votes, and then make the projection for President. Here we have an exit poll in which is conducted by Mori/NOP for BBC/ITV, i am just wondering if they have ever been wrong?
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Yes - 1992 exit poll projected a hung Parliament with Labour the largest party. Turned out to be a comfortable Tory win.
And of course US networks got 2000 race horribly wrong, projecting Florida first for Gore, then for Bush then back into the undecided column. That's why they're so cautious now.
onetrickpony posted:
I see that in the US they make projections on the college votes, and then make the projection for President. Here we have an exit poll in which is conducted by Mori/NOP for BBC/ITV, i am just wondering if they have ever been wrong?
Yes - 1992 exit poll projected a hung Parliament with Labour the largest party. Turned out to be a comfortable Tory win.
And of course US networks got 2000 race horribly wrong, projecting Florida first for Gore, then for Bush then back into the undecided column. That's why they're so cautious now.
CY
I never saw ITV's coverage but I must say that the BBC's touchscreen graphics within the virtual reality studio were impressive. From what I saw they seemed to be the only broadcaster that was doing that, other programmes had a touchscreen plasma. Very clever.
It has to be so boring for the presenter though as all they see is a green screen.
martinDTanderson posted:
How is the BBC's "Touch Screen" working, at first I thought it was just a fake thing and he is touching the wall, but, he is touching specific parts on the wall, and it went a little wrong when he touched the wrong part...
I never saw ITV's coverage but I must say that the BBC's touchscreen graphics within the virtual reality studio were impressive. From what I saw they seemed to be the only broadcaster that was doing that, other programmes had a touchscreen plasma. Very clever.
It has to be so boring for the presenter though as all they see is a green screen.
JR
I never saw ITV's coverage but I must say that the BBC's touchscreen graphics within the virtual reality studio were impressive. From what I saw they seemed to be the only broadcaster that was doing that, other programmes had a touchscreen plasma. Very clever.
It has to be so boring for the presenter though as all they see is a green screen.
AIUI it's the same as with the weather: there's a faint monochrome projector so the presenter can see where he's looking/pointing.
cylon6 posted:
martinDTanderson posted:
How is the BBC's "Touch Screen" working, at first I thought it was just a fake thing and he is touching the wall, but, he is touching specific parts on the wall, and it went a little wrong when he touched the wrong part...
I never saw ITV's coverage but I must say that the BBC's touchscreen graphics within the virtual reality studio were impressive. From what I saw they seemed to be the only broadcaster that was doing that, other programmes had a touchscreen plasma. Very clever.
It has to be so boring for the presenter though as all they see is a green screen.
AIUI it's the same as with the weather: there's a faint monochrome projector so the presenter can see where he's looking/pointing.
BE
I never saw ITV's coverage but I must say that the BBC's touchscreen graphics within the virtual reality studio were impressive. From what I saw they seemed to be the only broadcaster that was doing that, other programmes had a touchscreen plasma. Very clever.
It has to be so boring for the presenter though as all they see is a green screen.
AIUI it's the same as with the weather: there's a faint monochrome projector so the presenter can see where he's looking/pointing.
I'm guessing it was still a plasma though, with a greened out display so it was really being touched but with all the graphics on screen appearing/disappearing virtually.
Ben
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jrothwell97 posted:
cylon6 posted:
martinDTanderson posted:
How is the BBC's "Touch Screen" working, at first I thought it was just a fake thing and he is touching the wall, but, he is touching specific parts on the wall, and it went a little wrong when he touched the wrong part...
I never saw ITV's coverage but I must say that the BBC's touchscreen graphics within the virtual reality studio were impressive. From what I saw they seemed to be the only broadcaster that was doing that, other programmes had a touchscreen plasma. Very clever.
It has to be so boring for the presenter though as all they see is a green screen.
AIUI it's the same as with the weather: there's a faint monochrome projector so the presenter can see where he's looking/pointing.
I'm guessing it was still a plasma though, with a greened out display so it was really being touched but with all the graphics on screen appearing/disappearing virtually.
CY
I'd love to know how they did that. A greened out display sounds very likely to me. It was really clever though. I noticed that in 2001 ITN had a complete virtual reality studio that Alistair Stewart was working from and the only virtual reality graphics the BBC had was the swingometer. It was almost like they saw ITN and thought why didn't we do that. After that the BBC have always had a VR studio on Election night.
Ben posted:
I'm guessing it was still a plasma though, with a greened out display so it was really being touched but with all the graphics on screen appearing/disappearing virtually.
I'd love to know how they did that. A greened out display sounds very likely to me. It was really clever though. I noticed that in 2001 ITN had a complete virtual reality studio that Alistair Stewart was working from and the only virtual reality graphics the BBC had was the swingometer. It was almost like they saw ITN and thought why didn't we do that. After that the BBC have always had a VR studio on Election night.
CY
No they're definitely controlled by the presenter. I've seen them on CNN, Fox and Sky and there's no way the information could come up that quickly if someone else was working it behind the scenes.
Brekkie posted:
I assume these touchscreens are just controlled by people in the gallery - and not by the presenter at all.
Probably the most pointless innovation ever in news.
Probably the most pointless innovation ever in news.
No they're definitely controlled by the presenter. I've seen them on CNN, Fox and Sky and there's no way the information could come up that quickly if someone else was working it behind the scenes.