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Solar Eclipse 2017

News Coverage

That would have been around 7pm so they have to put out World News Today for BBC Four.

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By TMD_24

12 replies

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FL 22 Aug 2017 4:41pmflaziola

Incident in Barcelona

Van mounts a pavement in Barcelona

I think he wears Contacts and they seem to be causing him issues....

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By Aaron_2015

73 replies

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GI 18 Aug 2017 10:17pmgillw72

Electronic news-gathering

A while there was a thread about when each area started ENG: The list was never completed. Maybe we could get it completed this time? * Channel Started in 1977 * Grampian started in 1977...

By A former member

0 replies

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:-( 15 Aug 2017 7:26pmA former member

BBC News at 10 / News Channel - Technical problems 20/06/17

Split from BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Hmmm, half the BBC News logo went missing tonight:

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By Omnipresent

194 replies

6,682 views

:-( 10 Aug 2017 10:23pmA former member

Making a Living (Yorkshire Television) - Bad News

How to report the news, viewpoints and what is kept:

Its interesting to see even as that far back The news, was still questionable, and asked how do you cover it? What can you have? What viewpoints to put in?

By A former member

0 replies

217 views

:-( 10 Aug 2017 8:02pmA former member

BBC Presenters Salaries

Yes indeed. I worked for the same company for 28 years, when I left I was at the lower end of the pay scale for my grade, (however, I hung on to my final salary pension, which new entrants after 1995...

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By Live at five with Jeremy

171 replies

10,277 views

MA 30 Jul 2017 8:48pmMarkymark

Correspondent, in the BBC News studio, this morning.

Does anybody know, the name of the correspondent, talking to Reeta Chakrabarti, on the BBC News?

Yes it was Emma Vardy, thank you AlexS and like you I had never seen her before. Thanks for replying. theoldtapeman

By theoldtapeman

3 replies

454 views

OL 30 Jul 2017 5:01pmtheoldtapeman

TRT World HD 28.2E

For the sake of context... TRT's London bureau chief is my former boss, a chap called Tim Miller, who in his Sky days was Alex Crawford's field producer before launching the Sky News catch-up service,...

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By remlap

12 replies

1,543 views

SK 26 Jul 2017 12:43pmSkygeek

CCTV footage on the news

Wow, I didn’t realise CCTV software was such a PITA. Thanks for all your posts. I guess I was too optimistic in thinking there’d be a standard for that kind of system. In the meantime, my friendly...

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By VMPhil

14 replies

727 views

VM 25 Jul 2017 9:21pmVMPhil

New Channel 4 Weather graphics

From tonight (Monday 24 July)

Or rather, looking like a desert.

By VMPhil

4 replies

967 views

WO 24 Jul 2017 11:51pmWorzel

Doco on launch of ITN News Channel

But then again, BFM TV in France is going from ratings success to rating success with its lively breaking-news-and-debate formula -- and beating many general-entertainment channels in the process....

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By Connews

14 replies

1,857 views

WW 21 Jul 2017 12:47amWW Update

G20 7/8 July 2017 - Hamburg

I'm not sure if it's official but whenever "Berlin model" is written the releases closely mention that it is free of charge and copyright free. German's G20 media website from 2015 mentions the...

By SA100

3 replies

396 views

RK 12 Jul 2017 5:22pmRkolsen

Al Jazeera to close?

Split from Al Jazeera English from The Shard

Not all galleries in W1 are Mosart. There are some older control rooms installed for BBC Arabic and BBC Persian that run with an older automation system (IBIS + Dalet I think) which uses the...

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By Inspector Sands

57 replies

2,476 views

NG 7 Jul 2017 9:29amnoggin

Main BBC News bulletin voiceovers

The reason why the BBC encourage public access is because the new part of BH (or NBH!) was built across a road, thus there needed to be some sort of 'public' access kept.

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By TellyFan

22 replies

1,851 views

RA 6 Jul 2017 1:43pmradiolistener

News at Ten 50th Birthday

It can be heard from 7:10. This film started production in 1962 but was only released in 1972 in the UK. I'm sure cinema-goers ears would have pricked up at the time given that News at Ten was already...

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By A former member

45 replies

3,198 views

RD 4 Jul 2017 10:13pmRDJ

London Tower Block Fire

Absolutely disagree - it's still a dominant news story and very much in the public consciousness, and inquests are still returning verdicts. Singing 'Burn Baby Burn' or something similar would have...

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By rob

312 replies

14,582 views

NG 1 Jul 2017 9:17pmnoggin

FOX and Friends - an infomercial for Trump

Yes, in fairness, it would.

By stuartfanning

2 replies

298 views

SK 26 Jun 2017 12:58pmSkygeek

New look Five News onwards

Split from Five News from ITN

Still on at 1955 and 2058 (and maybe during films as well)

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By TVLondon

66 replies

8,816 views

EX 20 Jun 2017 7:14pmexcel99

TV Exit polls

Very Good piece:

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By A former member

33 replies

2,246 views

:-( 20 Jun 2017 12:26pmA former member

Reporting of terrorism (North London incident)

It needs to stop, it's killing people

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By Jon

14 replies

1,061 views

RI 20 Jun 2017 12:03pmRiaz