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Phillippa is normally like that... shame Jonathan has came back from holiday - Pip & Kenny are better together.
Annoying camera angles on the Weather & Sport introductions, the writing on the plasma screens is normally cut off or out of the safe areas. Wish they'd get the lighting sorted in the studios.
(NET North).
Three Rivers Fantasy posted:
Are they all on drugs on the NET team?
Phillippa is normally like that... shame Jonathan has came back from holiday - Pip & Kenny are better together.
Annoying camera angles on the Weather & Sport introductions, the writing on the plasma screens is normally cut off or out of the safe areas. Wish they'd get the lighting sorted in the studios.
(NET North).
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Technical problems at the end of NET North, the weather forecast played, with the UV forecast failing to, so we were left with the sponsor static on screen for a couple of secounds. Returning to the studio with Pip & Jon stalling for a couple of minutes.
However NET South ran smoothly. However when you click on 'Weather' on the website its taken from the North edition, where their was faults, shouldn't they have put on the South forecast, since it was fine?
Sports desk on the North was good with Celtic lads shouting, and Simon yelling shut up.. (which they did.) Strange that Andy Kerr was in the studio for the South though.
Watch the NET North bulletin online at www.tynetees.tv it happens for the last few minutes or so.
However NET South ran smoothly. However when you click on 'Weather' on the website its taken from the North edition, where their was faults, shouldn't they have put on the South forecast, since it was fine?
Sports desk on the North was good with Celtic lads shouting, and Simon yelling shut up.. (which they did.) Strange that Andy Kerr was in the studio for the South though.
Watch the NET North bulletin online at www.tynetees.tv it happens for the last few minutes or so.
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This in The Guardian this morning, anyone see it happen?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2143841,00.html
TV newsreader battles on while covertly being sick
Martin Wainwright
Wednesday August 8, 2007
The Guardian
Television hasn't had a particularly heroic time recently, but a regional news presenter has just done his best to put that right.
In the spirit of the boy who stayed at his post on the burning deck, anchorman Kenny Toal stuck with reading his bulletin while covertly being sick in a wastepaper bin during intervening film clips.
Gripped with food-poisoning spasms just before the half-hour evening show North East Tonight, broadcast from Newcastle upon Tyne, 34-year-old Toal decided at the last minute to go ahead.
Watched by mesmerised control room staff, he grabbed the bin during the final countdown, retched, stuffed it under his desk and then faced viewers with his usual aplomb.
Helped by co-presenter Pam Royle, who kept her composure as more bins were whisked in and out during the programme, Toal managed to survive until the sports section at the end of the bulletin. Only a death-mask pallor to his normally cheery face, which studio makeup failed to hide, alerted some of the audience to the fact that things were not going quite as normal.
The acting head of news at ITV Tyne Tees, Andrew Friend, said staff had wondered what was coming as the bulletin progressed. He said: "Kenny seemed to pull round as we went on air and he gave us the thumbs-up. But as we continued, it became clear that he was struggling."
After carrying out one bin himself, Mr Friend turned back to the monitor and realised that on-air vomiting was a real possibility. He said: "Things almost got even worse - Kenny was reading a script and I saw him put his hand up to his mouth. I knew then that it was getting serious".
Toal slipped out during the next film clip, leaving Ms Royle to carry on solo until the weather forecast. After recovering, he said his failure to defrost a cheese pie cooked by his mother was probably to blame. "It's never happened to me before," he said. "I was totally gutted."
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2143841,00.html
TV newsreader battles on while covertly being sick
Martin Wainwright
Wednesday August 8, 2007
The Guardian
Television hasn't had a particularly heroic time recently, but a regional news presenter has just done his best to put that right.
In the spirit of the boy who stayed at his post on the burning deck, anchorman Kenny Toal stuck with reading his bulletin while covertly being sick in a wastepaper bin during intervening film clips.
Gripped with food-poisoning spasms just before the half-hour evening show North East Tonight, broadcast from Newcastle upon Tyne, 34-year-old Toal decided at the last minute to go ahead.
Watched by mesmerised control room staff, he grabbed the bin during the final countdown, retched, stuffed it under his desk and then faced viewers with his usual aplomb.
Helped by co-presenter Pam Royle, who kept her composure as more bins were whisked in and out during the programme, Toal managed to survive until the sports section at the end of the bulletin. Only a death-mask pallor to his normally cheery face, which studio makeup failed to hide, alerted some of the audience to the fact that things were not going quite as normal.
The acting head of news at ITV Tyne Tees, Andrew Friend, said staff had wondered what was coming as the bulletin progressed. He said: "Kenny seemed to pull round as we went on air and he gave us the thumbs-up. But as we continued, it became clear that he was struggling."
After carrying out one bin himself, Mr Friend turned back to the monitor and realised that on-air vomiting was a real possibility. He said: "Things almost got even worse - Kenny was reading a script and I saw him put his hand up to his mouth. I knew then that it was getting serious".
Toal slipped out during the next film clip, leaving Ms Royle to carry on solo until the weather forecast. After recovering, he said his failure to defrost a cheese pie cooked by his mother was probably to blame. "It's never happened to me before," he said. "I was totally gutted."
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He didn't look very well at all. He however managed to present the programme, until the Sports desk. Where he slipped out, unable to carry on. Leaving Pam Royle to present the rest of the South bulletin solo.
They promoted a local programme, later in the evening, for a good few minutes, probably to get things sorted.
Good to see Kenny looking well though on Tuesdays NET South.
They promoted a local programme, later in the evening, for a good few minutes, probably to get things sorted.
Good to see Kenny looking well though on Tuesdays NET South.