I know this thread is for the Independent Channels, but I could find no worthier place to put this thread - I was extremely pleased to see the iconic Peter Sloss back on tv presenting the weather news again. He was standing in for Gail (aptly named) on the Breakfast Editions of Reporting Scotland last week!
I am glad to say that he has not lost any of his icon status, and I assume that the Scottish Daily Record will make a series about it in the next few weeks.
Is it just me or is there serious technical faults at North Tonight's studio as Pauline Allan is silent. The only sound is with reports and the camera's have been filming her changing running orders while a report is played on VT.
Doubt it - I remember watching the OVD Cup Final and watching the first 15 minutes with extremely dodgy sound. No apology that time around. You wonder if anyone at Cowcaddens is watching the output - and it's even less likely on Grampian.
Just an idea btw - having watched the sports update on the ITV News at 10.30pm (1966 nostalgia, cricket, and English rugby), shouldn't Scottish and Grampian be allowed to opt-out five minutes earlier. All the main presenter would need to do is say "And now it's time for the sport", allow a two second gap, Scottish could jump in, do the Scottish and international sport, then say "And now the news in Scotland Today", then carrying on as usual. The network sport is really irrelevant to Scottish viewers, and it wouldn't take any extra money and much more effort to fix it.
And whatever happened to a) the Scottish 10.30pm news and b) the west/east split for 6pm?
Just spotted in the background - "Wive's plight". Er... have I gone mad or should it either be "Wife's plight" for one or "Wifes' plight" for two or more. Or am I just illiterate?
Doubt it - I remember watching the OVD Cup Final and watching the first 15 minutes with extremely dodgy sound. No apology that time around. You wonder if anyone at Cowcaddens is watching the output - and it's even less likely on Grampian.
Just an idea btw - having watched the sports update on the ITV News at 10.30pm (1966 nostalgia, cricket, and English rugby), shouldn't Scottish and Grampian be allowed to opt-out five minutes earlier. All the main presenter would need to do is say "And now it's time for the sport", allow a two second gap, Scottish could jump in, do the Scottish and international sport, then say "And now the news in Scotland Today", then carrying on as usual. The network sport is really irrelevant to Scottish viewers, and it wouldn't take any extra money and much more effort to fix it.
And whatever happened to a) the Scottish 10.30pm news and b) the west/east split for 6pm?
Just spotted in the background - "Wive's plight". Er... have I gone mad or should it either be "Wife's plight" for one or "Wifes' plight" for two or more. Or am I just illiterate?
So with the move expected to the new hq expected to be Feb 2006 and the new EastWest opt outs expected at the same tonight what are we expecting from the 'new' Scotland Today? Harder or softer news? Single presentation? I know that the general feeling is that SMG has started the slow and steady dumbing down and cheapening of its news output but we shouldn't automically assume that the new look news programme will be even more dumbed down. Remember STV pioneered dumbed down news from a sofa (along with ATV) back in the 70s then bucked the trend in the 80s when its output went extremely hard.
I think if they go with a 'semi-hard' news policy presentation could actually be similar to what's been posted in the new look abc nightline thread. They can really cash in on the glasgow skyline, which BBC Scotland plans to do. They're moving in a few months whereas the BBC's moving in 2007 so Scotland Today could grab the opportunity to get a flash set with the skyline and the east optout could use a virtual Edinburgh castle backdrop. I'd also like to see some newsroom to give the programme a LIVE feel that it's never really had before. I want HARD news STV come on!!!
Interesting - Inverness now appears to be part of the Scottish Television region.
Some tenuous effort to show a local angle (like if the train came from Edinburgh or Glasgow) would have been appreciated, but bearing in mind a reporter has just appeared with a Grampian TV jacket, I'm guessing we just got a straight lift from them.
I wonder if there were a lot of issues before six - as there is only one presenter tonight
