I don't understand why this hasn't been done before? It has been used for sometime on American and Australian TV for flagging up breaking news i.e. lower-third graphic "Series of bombs have exploded in London. More at 11pm." without interrupting normal programmes. It would work better for the BBC as they can point viewers to News 24, rather than just tell them more on the next scheduled bulletin.
Dont they normally put straps up telling people to turn to a certain channel. Like on 9/11, im sure BBC Two had a blue strap telling viewers that there was a news report on BBC One?
Dont they normally put straps up telling people to turn to a certain channel. Like on 9/11, im sure BBC Two had a blue strap telling viewers that there was a news report on BBC One?
Quite a lot of channels (both owned by Sky and by other networks) put a strap up over the programming in 1997 after the death of Princess Diana telling their viewers to tune to Sky News. Some networks did this better than others, I remember Nickelodon filling ilterally half the screen up with that on the Sunday morning.
Yes, and ISTR the caption was in their corporate "Jambo" font at the time (that wierd font with all the arrows etc) Not very suitable for a serious news thing.
Anyway, I didn't see the strap on BBC1/2 but I got the Sky alert about it... was it the old style blue BBC strap or different? I think the last time I saw one of the blue strap type News Flashes was when Tony Blair had trouble with his heart and was rushed to hospital.
Anyway, I think it is a bit strange, maybe a bit disrespectful if you know what I mean, to say 'Ship containing 1300 passengers sinks - turn to N24', but then carrying on with daytime TV. They should either not have straps, or interrupt programming.
I don't understand why this hasn't been done before? It has been used for sometime on American and Australian TV for flagging up breaking news i.e. lower-third graphic "Series of bombs have exploded in London. More at 11pm." without interrupting normal programmes. It would work better for the BBC as they can point viewers to News 24, rather than just tell them more on the next scheduled bulletin.
Because broadcasters are worried about losing viewers. If they put up a caption about a news story during a news programme people start flipping. It's the same in radio too..... if a DJ mentioned a big news story coming up 'at the top of the hour' people will just tune away to find out what it is.
Unless it's mega-important it's better just to do a report after the programme.
The ferry disaster this morning is an odd one. It's probably wins for being the story that Sky and News 24 rolled on for the longest without any pictures.
All they had was a map and an old photo ofthe ship.... for hours and hours
I think this website is exactly the right place to post this. It's about television presentation isn't it?!!!
The OP originally posted a topic titled something like 'Ship Sinks' with no sub-heading, and no mention at all about pres in the post. He has since edited it to a different title and pres relevant sub-heading. I agree it is
now
a suitable post, but first it was just a news report.