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Brand realignment onwards (October 2009)

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MW
Mike W
ITNCameraman posted:
DrewF posted:
ITNCameraman posted:
buster posted:
Andrew Wood posted:
Not sure if it's a test or live dry runs, but it's not flagged as HD. Lots of Tweets about it.


It's not being flagged as HD as it doesn't reach the minimum required content to qualify. I believe it's pretty much just the studio stuff at the moment. But nice you're still getting the benefit in the meantime after the decade-long wait for widescreen!

"Decade-long wait"?


I believe he means that widescreen television was launched in the UK in late 1998 - but ITN didn't go widescreen till early 2007.

I see. And when did other news outlets go widescreen?


2000ish? 7 years wait, then I'm sure ITV waited for all the regions to be widescreen capable before nationals switched over!
IT
ITNCameraman
Mike W posted:
ITNCameraman posted:
DrewF posted:
ITNCameraman posted:
buster posted:
Andrew Wood posted:
Not sure if it's a test or live dry runs, but it's not flagged as HD. Lots of Tweets about it.


It's not being flagged as HD as it doesn't reach the minimum required content to qualify. I believe it's pretty much just the studio stuff at the moment. But nice you're still getting the benefit in the meantime after the decade-long wait for widescreen!

"Decade-long wait"?


I believe he means that widescreen television was launched in the UK in late 1998 - but ITN didn't go widescreen till early 2007.

I see. And when did other news outlets go widescreen?


2000ish? 7 years wait, then I'm sure ITV waited for all the regions to be widescreen capable before nationals switched over!

When did Sky News go widescreen?
DK
DanielK
2005, when they got their 'state of the art news centre' I think
NW
nwtv2003
BBC in October 2000, Channel 5 in January 2005, Sky News in October 2005, Channel 4 in mid-2007 and ITV in December 2007. ITV's bulletins had been cropped in 16:9 from mid 2005 on Digital, which made it look worse.
BU
buster
ITNCameraman posted:
Mike W posted:
ITNCameraman posted:
DrewF posted:
ITNCameraman posted:
buster posted:
Andrew Wood posted:
Not sure if it's a test or live dry runs, but it's not flagged as HD. Lots of Tweets about it.


It's not being flagged as HD as it doesn't reach the minimum required content to qualify. I believe it's pretty much just the studio stuff at the moment. But nice you're still getting the benefit in the meantime after the decade-long wait for widescreen!

"Decade-long wait"?


I believe he means that widescreen television was launched in the UK in late 1998 - but ITN didn't go widescreen till early 2007.

I see. And when did other news outlets go widescreen?


2000ish? 7 years wait, then I'm sure ITV waited for all the regions to be widescreen capable before nationals switched over!

When did Sky News go widescreen?


There's no need to be so touchy about it. It took ITN a very long time to go to widescreen, indeed there was a couple of years where the whole thing was cropped into pretend widescreen. I was actually paying a compliment in that HD has arrived much much quicker.
JA
jamies90
Anyone just catch that on ITV1?

After the sponsorship ad for Loose Women, the screen cut to the ITV newsroom and a voice said "This is the main control circuit ...".
MA
Macalolo
Is a reason for the removal of the standing up shot on the 630 news because of it getting in the way of London Tonight's studio?
IT
ITNCameraman
buster posted:
There's no need to be so touchy about it. It took ITN a very long time to go to widescreen, indeed there was a couple of years where the whole thing was cropped into pretend widescreen. I was actually paying a compliment in that HD has arrived much much quicker.

No need to be rude. I wasn't being "touchy", I was trying to find out when other broadcasters went widescreen. But now that all the answers are in, it does seem that everyone apart from the BBC went widescreen within about two years.
MW
Mike W
ITNCameraman posted:
buster posted:
There's no need to be so touchy about it. It took ITN a very long time to go to widescreen, indeed there was a couple of years where the whole thing was cropped into pretend widescreen. I was actually paying a compliment in that HD has arrived much much quicker.

No need to be rude. I wasn't being "touchy", I was trying to find out when other broadcasters went widescreen. But now that all the answers are in, it does seem that everyone apart from the BBC went widescreen within about two years.


It did come across as touchy, in fairness - like you were defending ITN's later (but not a decade) switch to Widescreen - it's understandable though, you will defend your employer!

At least they've beaten the BBC with HD though! It looks so much better now, none of this horrid green fringing either!
VM
VMPhil
[quote:0666466156="buster" pid="843202"]There's no need to be so touchy about it. It took ITN a very long time to go to widescreen, indeed there was a couple of years where the whole thing was cropped into pretend widescreen. I was actually paying a compliment in that HD has arrived much much quicker.[/quote:0666466156]

I'd forgotten about that! I'm sure the BBC used to add black bars on the North West Tonight headline insert as well to make it look as though it was 14:9, before it was available on digital... you used to see a flash of it in 4:3 before the black bars appeared
MW
Mike W
VMPhil posted:
[quote:0666466156="buster" pid="843202"]There's no need to be so touchy about it. It took ITN a very long time to go to widescreen, indeed there was a couple of years where the whole thing was cropped into pretend widescreen. I was actually paying a compliment in that HD has arrived much much quicker.[/quote:0666466156]

I'd forgotten about that! I'm sure the BBC used to add black bars on the North West Tonight headline insert as well to make it look as though it was 14:9, before it was available on digital... you used to see a flash of it in 4:3 before the black bars appeared


yes, nearly all regions did this and I remember one had two bars at the top and bottom and one was slightly too far to the right so you could see what was being hidden!

In the Midlands they did bars at the top for a while then bars at the side, when that happened everything was a nasty blurry mess because they stetched the 4:3 image to this 16:9 frame - then The Mailbox happened...
CF
CatsFast101
I don't know if anyone heard it but on the 6:30 news, after Lawernce McGinerty's report we heard Mary & Alastair having a conversation. The report was Gwenth Paltrow supporting a cancer charity, and Mary said 'she's so annoying' and Al replied with 'how is she annoying' at the end of the report before cutting back to the studio.

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