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Hurricane Ophelia

(October 2017)

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RD
rdd Founding member
Back to Ophelia now with a 90 minute edition of Six One.
LL
London Lite Founding member
No Six O'Clock Show on TV3. Replaced with a documentary.
LL
London Lite Founding member
3News at 5.30 - TV3. Note the use of the Ireland AM ticker and clock.

AS
AlexS
Yes, it was BBC News.
However, the important story is the one happening now surely, not the one 30 years ago.
It's not as if this wind has come out of the blue (or red, or yellow whatever colour the sky is currently).
They could have kept the forecaster in the studio.

I haven't looked, but I wouldn't be surprised to see other broadcasters doing the same thing.
Reporters stood in howling winds on the beach barely able to speak is standard news production nonsense, but why the forecaster?,

To be fair, at least in the 14:00 hour a different forecaster was in the studio to talk about Ophelia with Sarah only talking about the 1987 storm and weather elsewhere in the UK (where while windy it is nothing out of the ordinary).
GA
Gallunach
Sky had a little problem with pronunciation

https://streamable.com/9789q

Thanks to raywj1993 on reddit for this
DE
denton
Sky had a little problem with pronunciation

https://streamable.com/9789q

Thanks to raywj1993 on reddit for this


Oh dear Lord.

Mind you, I've heard "Met Éireann" mangled by half a dozen presenters and reporters today.
RD
RDJ
"Tea-shake"(!)

Close but definitely no cigar.
AS
Asa Admin
And for completeness, the announcement by Paul Reid after MOTD last night.

MM
MMcG198
The rolling news on RTE One this afternoon randomly included some shots of engineers on the top of BBC Broadcasting House in Belfast struggling to reposition a large satellite dish.
BK
bkman1990
I am looking at Clare Byrne Live on RTÉ One HD on Saorview. The studio audience is understandably very small tonight as a result of today's storm. The tiny numbers of the studio audience are sitting on purple seats for the duration of tonight's programme.

There is also a purple strap on the bottom of the screen giving updates of today's storm & about what happens for tomorrow.
Last edited by bkman1990 on 16 October 2017 11:14pm - 3 times in total
CR
Critique
Asa posted:
And for completeness, the announcement by Paul Reid after MOTD last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42vJ-72FHnc


Very curious about the design of this slide - it's very neat but equally looks quite old. I know BBC NI go to a bit more effort than the rest, but surely they didn't quickly design something like this? Is this a template for a special type of announcement we've just not seen before?
SP
Steve in Pudsey
It looks dated because of the Futura font, which works with the 90s idents on BBC 2 but not so well on BBC 1.

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