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Miners Rescue - Chile

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

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Ben Founding member
Michael posted:
Ben posted:
I have to say I think Tim Wilcox has done brilliantly, even when presenting with Matt Frei yesterday Tim seemed to have the edge and was better at filling. I'm sure the fact he has been there for a few weeks has helped though.


And he habla espanol too!


So does Matt Frei but he's not done as well as Tim if you ask me.
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breakingnews
It's been an amazing television story and for once, it's positive. I'm enjoying Sky's coverage.

Emma Hurd is taking over in Chile (perhaps Andrew just went off for some dinner).
BH
Bvsh Hovse
thegeek posted:
Worzel posted:
Does anyone know how many pooled pictures are currently available from Chile?
I thought it was just the World Feed provided by Chilean Government?

The majority of pictures shown across all news channels are from are from the Chilean Government feed, also this is the feed being taken by BBC Mundo and BBC Brasil for their online feeds. The online feeds don't seem to have anything else done to them other than an ARC, so they give you a very good idea of the raw feed that the broadcasters are working with.
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Chie
Michael posted:
excel99 posted:
Worzel posted:
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)


That's a bit of an overreaction IMO. I don't think coverage of the G20 et al will suffer from not having an extra correspondent on the ground. Besides, these summits come around once every few years, there's a lot of talking, not much action, a few protests and a lot of talking heads um and ah for a few days. This miners story is a ONCE IN A LIFETIME extraordinarily interesting, heartwarming, technically astounding, visually and emotionally stunning news event. Saving a few pennies on an air fare and a hotel room elsewhere is hardly going to ruin BBC News' standards. Robert and Nick could easily both go if they stayed in a Travelodge. Not that they would.

And the less said about the Oscars, the better.


I agree.

The G8 and G20 summits happen every year, as do the Oscars etc. Boring as anything.

The Chilean mine rescue is something else.

BTW, did anyone cap the World News America special titles?
Last edited by Chie on 14 October 2010 1:25am - 2 times in total
DH
Daniel H
Emma Hurd obviously not use to non-stop anchoring, she needs to remember her mic is kept live....

"Do you want David's chair?" and earlier "Whats the name of the 33rd?"

Great coverage on Sky though, makes you wonder why BBC waste so much money sending so many people, Sky have less than 10 from their behind the scenes video, and seem to have done a much more polished job at reporting the story.
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breakingnews
Andrew Wilson is back after a two hour break.
BR
breakingnews
Chie posted:
Michael posted:
excel99 posted:
Worzel posted:
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)


That's a bit of an overreaction IMO. I don't think coverage of the G20 et al will suffer from not having an extra correspondent on the ground. Besides, these summits come around once every few years, there's a lot of talking, not much action, a few protests and a lot of talking heads um and ah for a few days. This miners story is a ONCE IN A LIFETIME extraordinarily interesting, heartwarming, technically astounding, visually and emotionally stunning news event. Saving a few pennies on an air fare and a hotel room elsewhere is hardly going to ruin BBC News' standards. Robert and Nick could easily both go if they stayed in a Travelodge. Not that they would.

And the less said about the Oscars, the better.


I agree.

The G8 and G20 summits happen every year, as do the Oscars etc. Boring as anything.

The Chilean mine rescue is something else.

BTW, did anyone cap the World News America special titles?


I don't even know why the Oscars was mentioned. The BBC don't even broadcast that anymore as far as I know. I don't think people will lose any sleep if the BBC don't "cover" the Oscars.
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dosxuk
Only one miner left to go
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fodg09
breakingnews posted:
Andrew Wilson is back after a two hour break.


Glad he is back, Emma was not quite as good at talking over events as Robert was.
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Inspector Sands
'This is the last time it will happen, the last time you will see this'... well except for when the 5 rescuers still down there
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 14 October 2010 2:00am
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Chie
Ugh. Matt's overzealous commentary ruined the moment. Not impressed.
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fodg09
An amazing moment. Credit to Andrew Wilson for getting the right balance between commentary and letting the pictures talk for themselves.

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