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Doesn't take away from the fact that Sky were ahead in just about every other sense.
Pictures, correspondents, eyewitnesses...
NickyS posted:
Some interesting stats in a Media Guardian report ... BBC News had over 6 thousand email with images or video .. and News 24 beat Sky in terms of viewers ...
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1665609,00.html
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BBC News received more than 6,500 emails containing pictures and video footage of the Buncefield oil depot explosion on Sunday.
The deluge of emails from eye witnesses, which began just minutes after the blast, sets a new record for emails sent to the BBC in the aftermath of a dramatic event.
After the London bombings on 7 July the BBC's yourpics@bbc.co.uk site received around 1,000 images and mobile clips from the public.
But the blaze at the Hertfordshire depot on Sunday morning generated an unprecedented amount of material from "civilian journalists" taking the reporter's role in to their own hands.
The first picture came into the BBC at 6.19am, minutes after the initial explosion, with the first mobile phone video footage sent in at 6.23am. Many of the 6,500 emails sent to the yourpics site contained multiple images and video clips from mobile phones and digital cameras.
Pete Clifton, the head of BBC News Interactive, said: "The range of material we received from our readers was absolutely extraordinary. "Video, still pictures and emails poured in from the moment the blast happened, and it played a central part in the way we reported the unfolding events." Half a million unique users (525,808) accessed clips and footage on Sunday via the BBC's online news video service, News Player. The figure is second only to number of requests for clips on 7 July.
The largest number of requests was for live footage streamed online and a news package by special correspondent Gavin Hewitt. In all, there were more than a quarter of a million requests for material that had been sent in by members of the public. The morning's events also generated an increase in television viewing figures at the BBC. Across Sunday, BBC News 24 achieved its highest daily reach of the year with 4.7 million viewers, a 2.1% share of the audience. Sky News reached 4.1 million viewers, a 1.8% share. BBC News 24's breakfast broadcast that was simulcast on BBC1 peaked with an audience of 2 million viewers as many who had been woken by the blast miles away turned on the TV for breaking news. Later in the day, the main bulletins showed an increase in viewing figures - the early evening bulletin was watched by 5.6 million and the Ten O'Clock News achieved 6 million.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1665609,00.html
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BBC News received more than 6,500 emails containing pictures and video footage of the Buncefield oil depot explosion on Sunday.
The deluge of emails from eye witnesses, which began just minutes after the blast, sets a new record for emails sent to the BBC in the aftermath of a dramatic event.
After the London bombings on 7 July the BBC's yourpics@bbc.co.uk site received around 1,000 images and mobile clips from the public.
But the blaze at the Hertfordshire depot on Sunday morning generated an unprecedented amount of material from "civilian journalists" taking the reporter's role in to their own hands.
The first picture came into the BBC at 6.19am, minutes after the initial explosion, with the first mobile phone video footage sent in at 6.23am. Many of the 6,500 emails sent to the yourpics site contained multiple images and video clips from mobile phones and digital cameras.
Pete Clifton, the head of BBC News Interactive, said: "The range of material we received from our readers was absolutely extraordinary. "Video, still pictures and emails poured in from the moment the blast happened, and it played a central part in the way we reported the unfolding events." Half a million unique users (525,808) accessed clips and footage on Sunday via the BBC's online news video service, News Player. The figure is second only to number of requests for clips on 7 July.
The largest number of requests was for live footage streamed online and a news package by special correspondent Gavin Hewitt. In all, there were more than a quarter of a million requests for material that had been sent in by members of the public. The morning's events also generated an increase in television viewing figures at the BBC. Across Sunday, BBC News 24 achieved its highest daily reach of the year with 4.7 million viewers, a 2.1% share of the audience. Sky News reached 4.1 million viewers, a 1.8% share. BBC News 24's breakfast broadcast that was simulcast on BBC1 peaked with an audience of 2 million viewers as many who had been woken by the blast miles away turned on the TV for breaking news. Later in the day, the main bulletins showed an increase in viewing figures - the early evening bulletin was watched by 5.6 million and the Ten O'Clock News achieved 6 million.
Doesn't take away from the fact that Sky were ahead in just about every other sense.
Pictures, correspondents, eyewitnesses...