London bombings - TV news coverage

Quite interesting watching ABC's coverage on News24.

"...the extraordinary people of London"

Even the band played outside the British Embassy!

America has heightened security big time.

Ah yes, a bit of Sun-esque styleee journalism - place a bag in the overhead rack and see if anyone picks up on the fact that it's been left there until the end station.

i dont get it, why the hell should BBC News 24 play Americian Coverage of a UK Story!!! POINTLESS !!

Oh my god. Are you thick or something?

BBC News 24 always broadcast ABC World News Tonight at 1.30AM. And it's good to see different perspectives.

It's time for school tomorrow Jonny, better get to sleep, eh?

Nope no school tommorow! off for summer!

*oh good lord above*

Agreed with much that Edward said on the other page about News 24 - all round decent reliable coverage.
They definitely should have used Frank Gardner more - an incredibly experienced journalist with a lot to contribute; it was frustrating to see only 2 min snippets of him.
Also the BBC kept playing the same images over and over again - they also didn't switch back to the studio enough to bring some sort of structure to the coverage. This coupled with the same repeated images made the coverage visually rather boring.

Here in Ireland we had almost as extensive coverage by RTÉ on our main terrestrial channel as the UK. We had full coverage from at least 11.00 in the morning if not earlier, right up till 1.30, followed by more long bulletins from about 3.30 to 4.30, and from 5.30 to 7.00 including the Six One.
The main Nine News ran till 9.40, followed by more current affairs coverage till about 10.30, with another bulletin at 11.00 on RTÉ Two.

As for content, well the usual RTÉ ploy of sending out a fleet of taxis around Dublin to collect various boffins from the universities came into action, but nonetheless information coming though at times was new stuff that some UK channels didn't have, or were interesting variations of eye-witness accounts - as is often the case with RTÉ's coverage like 9/11. At times the info and footage coming through was quite refreshing, and the constant recaps and studio-based interviews offered breathing space, something the BBC didn't do.
They often rely too heavily on 'up-to-the-minute' footage, as all dedicated news services tend towards to their detriment I think.

For loaction footage RTÉ relied heavily on the output of BBC News 24, including all graphics, astons and banners! You'd think they would've got a clean feed. EuroNews footage with their graphics was also used a lot.

For the Nine News Anne Doyle was in Dublin as usual, with old reliable Bryan Dobson in London (who was in Edinburgh as it was anyway).
London Editor Brian O'Connell was also there to assist:

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Didn't watch much of ITV's coverage during the day, but their evening content at least seemd to be quite muted.
Saying that agreed about the 'Target London' caption, quite ridiculous.
Or indeed any title - it 'mediaizes' events to a silly degree, a very Fox-like ploy.

The red graphic at the top with the title on it was farcical I think.

wonder if our regional newsrooms will cover this? it affects ppl all over the country

Breakfast has Dermot & Sian in the studio, with Bill at Kings Cross. Shame the Africa special bits, along with any other news appears to have beeen completely lost.

An update on BBC1's schedule for this morning...
6:00 am Breakfast
9:15 am Breakfast: The London Bombings
10:00 am BBC News Special
10:30 am Animal Park
11:00 am BBC News
11:10 am Britain at War: The Road to Victory
12:00 pm BBC News
12:15 pm Africa: Journeys of Hope
1:00 pm BBC News

I thought the Central News Special at 7:30pm was a good programme. It really got into the issues of the people of the "Central Region".

It was well put together and a good pan region news programme. It goes to show that Central can still churn out decent programmes.

They also kept promoting the Central name!!

I think that it was a far better programme than Midlands Today.
In fact I didn't watch BBC News at all yesterday. I stuck with Sky News or ITV News. Although I thought ITV News were a little behind. Sky News had the edge I think!