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Miners Rescue - Chile

"WITH ME, TIM WILLCOX." (October 2010)

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Worzel
So Mike and Chris open up with them talking over the live pics on the news channel and world... they then cut to the BBC News at 10's titles and simulcast Matt Frei whose going out on World News, BBC1 News at Ten and the BBC News channel.
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fodg09
Big ratings for CNN in the U.S last night, their best numbers in recent months.
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The full ratings scorecard will be up shortly, but in the meantime, here are the cable news ratings from the 11 o’clock hour last night, when the first Chilean miner was brought to the surface:

CNN: 3.998 million total viewers / 1.422M A25-54

FNC: 3.468 million total viewers / 1.046M A25-54

MSNBC: 1.083 million total viewers / 279K A25-54



http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/
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Worzel
BBC News graphics have just completely fallen over themselves!
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Mike516
Mike Embley talking quickly then: "This is a BBC News special, thanks for watching"

Sounded like some station was heading for a break.

Is BBC World News having commercial breaks at the moment?
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David
Will the last person be taking the camera and any other broadcast equipment with them or are they going to leave it all down there to get a shot of the last person leaving?
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Worzel
David posted:
Will the last person be taking the camera and any other broadcast equipment with them or are they going to leave it all down there to get a shot of the last person leaving?


And turn the lights off. Wink

Strangely enough I was thinking the same thing, because theres lighting in the mine too.

NB - Seems like the Camera that's in the mine has Antivirus installed because a Windows Popup just appeared!
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Worzel
This makes interesting reading (it's the Guardian)... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/13/bbc-chile-miners-rescue-bill
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Worzel
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/131010/clipid/131010_chile_live

Jon Snow getting excited!
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excel99
This makes interesting reading (it's the Guardian)... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/13/bbc-chile-miners-rescue-bill

Discraceful IMO. The miners story maybe interesting, but that's it - interesting

The G20, Nato, Climate summits are not just interesting, they could affect people and businesses. They could dictate banking regulation, policy in Afghanistan etc. They need to have full coverage IMO. Yet license fee payers money has instead been spent on 'nice to have' extensive coverage from Chile which could have been done with less staff and at less cost (Look at CNNI, just 3 correspondents there and no presenter)
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Mike516
Hasn't the BBC only got four presenter/correspondents on site?
Matt Frei/Tim Willcox/Rajesh Mirchandani/Andrew Harding

and again the point that some of the money into the BBC News pot will come from BBC World News/BBC America and BBC.com.

In fact we just had another 'thanks for watching' line from Mike Embley, so sounds like another opt out for international services to have an ad break?

EDIT: Chris Eakin welcoming BBC World viewers back, so that answers my question.
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Andrew Founding member
It would be nice if there was some sort of studio based presenter being used at least to cover the joins and stop the endless padding.

The constant pauses, staring at cameras waiting for people to opt in and out and saying 'welcome back' even though we haven't been anywhere is a bit grating and regular viewers will wonder what is going on.

The start of the BBC News at One was particularly messy with Tim reading from his phone. Doing an intro in the studio and then straight to Chile would have been better.
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fodg09
Nice to hear Martin Stanford on Sky's coverage, presumably giving Andrew a bit of a break or waiting for Robert Nisbet take over.

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