On a night when a caption generator wins a prize for 'innovation', I don't think we can take these awards seriously!
It wasn't the caption generator, and you know it wasn't. It was the idea of putting people's messages home on the ticker, which was a great idea and fantastic public service broadcasting.
A terrible evening for Sky though. Good job that News 24 hadn't poached JT or they'd have been left with just an award winning ticker!
But the ticker was such a bizarre idea. Youb are stuck in London and want to let your family know you are safe.
On a night when a caption generator wins a prize for 'innovation', I don't think we can take these awards seriously!
It wasn't the caption generator, and you know it wasn't. It was the idea of putting people's messages home on the ticker, which was a great idea and fantastic public service broadcasting.
A terrible evening for Sky though. Good job that News 24 hadn't poached JT or they'd have been left with just an award winning ticker!
But the ticker was such a bizarre idea. Youb are stuck in London and want to let your family know you are safe.
So who do you text? Your mum or Sky news.
The people were stuck in Thiland and the areas affected by the tsunami- not stuck in london.
I though the original messages we're relayed from Skys crews..Then they were txts/emails from people letting everyone know they were safe..?
Jeremy Thompson, presenter of the year
“The judges said that the winning presenter, has a unique ability to capture the moment, to know which tiny little things really matter and – crucially – he knows when to shut up and let the pictures do the talking.”
This is so true. He really does 'have it'. Whenever he's sent on location he has mastery of his situation. He just knows how to put the story across perfectly.
However, since he's been stuck in that huge studio on his own, he seems overly burdened by it. He's not himself. I don't think he was ever one for banter with his co-presenter, but he just seemed to work better when he had someone sat next to him.
What a hilariously partisan news story.
It's worth pointing out that ITN in both its ITV News and Channel 4 News guises had an incredibly successful night.
Television journalist, news event, programme of the year.. all the big awards went to ITN.
BBC are left consoling themselves with a couple of current affairs awards and News Channel of the Year.
I'll bet Peter Horrocks will be delighted
What a hilariously partisan news story.
It's worth pointing out that ITN in both its ITV News and Channel 4 News guises had an incredibly successful night.
Television journalist, news event, programme of the year.. all the big awards went to ITN.
Not forgetting David Mannion receiving the judges' award.
What a hilariously partisan news story.
It's worth pointing out that ITN in both its ITV News and Channel 4 News guises had an incredibly successful night.
Television journalist, news event, programme of the year.. all the big awards went to ITN.
BBC are left consoling themselves with a couple of current affairs awards and News Channel of the Year.
I'll bet Peter Horrocks will be delighted
I have to say that story is quite biased towards the BBC
The fact that almost at the end of the story it says "Other winners included ITV Evening News for news programme of the year...."
One of the biggest awards as far as terrestrial is concerned reduced to a footnote!
Personally even though it's closed I'd still say the ITV News Channel was better last year than News 24 - but obviously that's a matter of preference rather than fact.
Will this award be just a two horse race from now on, or could we see other channels such as Sky Sports News, CNN etc. be contenders.
What a hilariously partisan news story.
It's worth pointing out that ITN in both its ITV News and Channel 4 News guises had an incredibly successful night.
Television journalist, news event, programme of the year.. all the big awards went to ITN.
BBC are left consoling themselves with a couple of current affairs awards and News Channel of the Year.
I'll bet Peter Horrocks will be delighted
I have to say that story is quite biased towards the BBC
I chuckled when I saw that you were casting accusations of bias. It amused me that someone who constantly berates the BBC and unfailingly sings the praises of ITV in all things should feel able to make such an accusation with a straight face.
Let's do a bit of research. Consider the BBC News article about the 2004 awards, where ITN was very much the focus of the article, and the BBC and Sky both got relatively little mention.
And what about the article about last year's awards? Even though BBC News got more awards than ITV, Channel 4 and Sky combined, the focus of the article is on Sir Trevor McDonald's recognition, and the BBC's decisive victory over its rivals is limited to "The BBC took 10 awards, and ITV won four. Sky and Channel 4 took one each."
Andrew posted:
The fact that almost at the end of the story it says "Other winners included ITV Evening News for news programme of the year...."
One of the biggest awards as far as terrestrial is concerned reduced to a footnote!
Hmm. Well let's look again at the BBC News article from last year: "News programme of the year was given to BBC One's Ten O'Clock News, while Sky News won news channel of the year." So when the BBC won the news programme of the year award, it only got a one line mention last year - I don't see the issue with ITV getting the same this year. As for BBC News 24 making hay of its winning the award for news channel of the year, I believe this is the first time that it has won this award from the RTS, so why shouldn't they be proud?
Have you even compared the BBC's article with, for example, Sky's? About 80% of the article focuses solely upon Sky's achievements, with this being the only acknowledgement of those of the BBC and ITV:
~ News 24 beat Sky and ITV to take the news channel of the year, while ITV editor-in-chief David Mannion claimed the judges' award, despite ITV closing down its news channel in 2005.
Wow. Substantial.
I don't see the problem with the BBC being proud of winning the news channel of the year award, especially when Sky is allowed to get away with articles like this, and I don't see you speaking out in disgust at Sky's complete and total failure to mention ITV's well-earned award for news programme of the year anywhere in its article. Not even a footnote there, but you've not got a word to say about it.
But then, let's face it - the only reason you mentioned the BBC's supposedly appalling bias is because of your own obvious, and frankly tedious, bias against everything that the BBC does.
Personally even though it's closed I'd still say the ITV News Channel was better last year than News 24 - but obviously that's a matter of preference rather than fact.
I'm a bit 'double-sided' when it comes to the ITV NC; I felt that it was the best by far for breaking news, but it was lacking slightly when it came to other news content, and very repetitive.