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London bombings - TV news coverage

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SJ
sjdavis
Been flicking through the news channels (and Five), and although ITV News did report it very quickly, they did use the London Traffic-cams for a while, whilst the more dynamic Sky News had the chopper etc.

But I realise that ITV are very much like a steam-roller of a broadcaster when it comes to breaking news - once they get going with a major news story, they really do report it extremely well, and they now seem to have a vast poool of resouces. There's little repetition, and I'm finding it more watchable than many of the other channels at the moment.
GR
gregmc
Darren in TVC
TW
Time Warp
ITV News to roll until 7pm on ITV1
SC
scottishender
What ident did BBC1 use to introduce the One O'clock news
OH
ohwhatanight Founding member
sjdavis posted:
Been flicking through the news channels (and Five), and although ITV News did report it very quickly, they did use the London Traffic-cams for a while, whilst the more dynamic Sky News had the chopper etc.

But I realise that ITV are very much like a steam-roller of a broadcaster when it comes to breaking news - once they get going with a major news story, they really do report it extremely well, and they now seem to have a vast poool of resouces. There's little repetition, and I'm finding it more watchable than many of the other channels at the moment.


I was very impressed with Steve Scott. I have never really rated him that highly before but he has proved himself to be very competent, level headed and got the mood exactly right throughout the morning.

Whilst ITV Lunchtime News have continued their rolling coverage (ie no opening titles, bongs or awful white background in the studio) the BBC 1 o'clock news has been a bit more of a structured bulletin with loads of packages, interviews and studio guests. By doing this has led to them missing Tony Blair's second speech and him leaving Gleneagles by car and then in the helicopter.
Obviously BBC1 wanted to offer a 30 minute bulletin where you could catch up on the day's developments in one segment - where BBC News 24 should've offered continuous live rolling coverage rather than repeating the BBC1 bulletin.
OB
on the box
scottishender posted:
What ident did BBC1 use to introduce the One O'clock news

Tai Chi straight with National Continuity
AN
Ant
time_warp posted:
ITV News to roll until 7pm on ITV1

Hmm, a bit OTT I think. Unless another bomb is going to go off, there isn't much more to report.
SP
spud_nic
does anyone know why Huw was in Westminster rather than TVC?
TW
Time Warp
Alex Thompson on NBC Today.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/time_warp_tvf/aaaaa.bmp
AN
Andrew Founding member
Is the ITV News programme on ITV1 using the usual News Channel graphics, DOG etc?
OB
on the box
spud_nic posted:
does anyone know why Huw was in Westminster rather than TVC?


He May well of been stuck thier Due to Tubes and Buses being suspended,other than that thier is no other logical reason
AN
Ant
Andrew posted:
Is the ITV News programme on ITV1 using the usual News Channel graphics, DOG etc?

Yes, except ticker and DOG.

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