Did the BBC forget to bring a tripod with them to Oslo? Very shaky camera.
To be honest, 80+ people have just had their lives taken away and many hundreds more injured and certainly thousands have had their lives ruined through the loss of family members, and while it should be interesting in terms of TV presentation, you should remember the human side to the story!
Did the BBC forget to bring a tripod with them to Oslo? Very shaky camera.
To be honest, 80+ people have just had their lives taken away and many hundreds more injured and certainly thousands have had their lives ruined through the loss of family members, and while it should be interesting in terms of TV presentation, you should remember the human side to the story!
Oh yes thanks for reminding me. I'd completely forgotton about that. Feel free to point that out to the people on this TV presentation thread who've commented on which presenters are on screen and their presenting style as well rather than singling my post out.
Turning the attention to terrestrial programmes for once, some often say that having a presenter on the scene provides nothing that couldn't be done in the studio
BBC News tonight had Matthew Amroliwala in the studio and Jon Sopel in Oslo. ITV News was presented by Andrea Benfield in the studio. Did this mean that ITV's coverage seemed lacking with no on the ground presence?
(Geriant Vincent was on the phone from Oslo so he may be in vision by the late bulletin)
I've just come back from a week in Copenhagen, Denmark, and caught this story breaking from a Scandinavian perspective.
The national broadcaster in Denmark, DR, have a rolling news operation similar to RTÉ's News Now called DR Update. This also simulcasts the news bulletins shown on DR1 and DR2. As the Olso blasts were being reported, there were sporadic updates between programmes on DR1 (which continued to show
Miss Marple
, apparently quite popular over there) and a NASA documentary until the scheduled evening news programme.
DR Update alternated between Sky News and NRK for pictures. It's not got a massive budget, so the coverage consisted of one presenter who was, essentially, just explaining the pictures (not that there was a lot else he could have done at that point).
Both DR channels broadcast a ticker over the top of regular programming advising viewers to watch DR Update for more on the story.
TV2, the other main terrestrial channel, were showing the Tour de France, so broadcast split-screen for most of the afternoon: le Tour on the left, breaking news with audio on the right.
One thing that struck me about Danish news is how the news programmes showed the police and government statements/press conferences almost in full at the top of the programme - at least 10 minutes worth - before their own report into events. As there had already been quite considerable coverage by this point, I suppose it made more sense to show these things rather than just have 2 people in a studio talk about the same looped video footage (and not really adding anything).
I've been watching NRK, DR and SVT all weekend. I speak some Swedish, and so can understand a reasonable amount of Norwegian.
NRK ditched all their scheduled programmes from Friday afternoon until last night, and simulcast their news on both NRK1 and NRK2. (NRK doesn't have a continuous news channel but they were doing a good job.) The rolling coverage came from a newsroom set (similar to that News 24 had before they moved from the newsroom into the studio) in SD. They're also doing more 'built' programme (in HD I think) from their news studio, which is very blue and has some nicely integrated graphics. They were on-air pretty much from when the first reports of the bomb came in until midnight last night.
They're obviously stretched a long way past their normal requirements, and don't have hugely experienced location camera operators doing their lives, but I think they've done a good job of reporting the news, and not going into hours of talking head speculation. There was a discussion show broadcast last night - but the rolling news stuff has been simply factual reporting.
SVT2 has been simulcasting NRK (complete with NRK 1 dog - and the SVT2 Direkt dog didn't clash with it) for large chunks of the day (there are lots of Swedes who live or work in Norway, and they are very close neighbours. Most Swedes will understand spoken and written Norwegian, so there is not a huge need for translation, though SVT will subtitle Norwegian when included in scheduled bulletins I think)
DR were simulcasting NRK for a little while, but more recently have been broadcasting unscheduled DR Update bulletins.
SVT1 and DR1 are all simulcasting NRK's coverage of this morning's memorial service.
They're obviously stretched a long way past their normal requirements, and don't have hugely experienced location camera operators doing their lives, but I think they've done a good job of reporting the news, and not going into hours of talking head speculation.
It's worth mentioning that NRK (as an EBU member) have been providing stand-up positions and uplinks for all and sundry too - as well as transmitting NRK1 on the EBU News Events channel for most of the past few days.
They're obviously stretched a long way past their normal requirements, and don't have hugely experienced location camera operators doing their lives, but I think they've done a good job of reporting the news, and not going into hours of talking head speculation.
It's worth mentioning that NRK (as an EBU member) have been providing stand-up positions and uplinks for all and sundry too - as well as transmitting NRK1 on the EBU News Events channel for most of the past few days.
Yep - and managed to cover the memorial service this morning as well. They are nowhere near as big as the BBC, but they do things properly when they do them.
I feel for the guys at NRK News. I've visited the newsroom at Marienlyst in Oslo, and it's not huge.
I don't think they have that many news presenters - the same 5 or 6 presenters covering the entire schedule for the last 36+ hours, and they've been doing a very good job. They appear to be very assured.
It's also refreshing to see actuality allowed to breathe, without presenters or reporters feeling the need to fill every single second of output with commentary.
I think NRK have finally stopped their rolling news coverage. They've just run the first weather forecast I've seen broadcast since Friday, finished their broadcast, and their in-vision presentation presenter has just appeared to link into a natural history programme.
In-vision presenter was understandably very soberly dressed and had a simple white candle burning next to her.
Feel free to point that out to the people on this TV presentation thread who've commented on which presenters are on screen and their presenting style as well rather than singling my post out.