CA
It'd be interesting to see exactly why that happened -- the news will have come from the same wire, and both be monitoring them constantly... it sounds as though Sky have a serious technical issue if they are being constantly late with things coming from the wires. Pre-relaunch and 9 times out of 10 they'd be ahead of the other two by at least a minute or so. It seems very odd.
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ohwhatanight
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I wonder if the lottery programme on BBC1 is pre-recorded earlier?
Also those figures for SKY¦News between 20:00 and 21:00 are even worse than ITV NC's hourly figures!
Also those figures for SKY¦News between 20:00 and 21:00 are even worse than ITV NC's hourly figures!
ED
Surprised that Sky News didn't bother to update their International Version - the breakfiller is still the same.
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Waste of empty space at the bottom IMO, just leave the ticker there!
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Waste of empty space at the bottom IMO, just leave the ticker there!
SC
I think they are. I got that impression last week when I saw the midweek draw. You would never see Dale and the blonde guy co-presenter who tells you the prize fund etc. (the obviously live stuff) at the same time. It was like Dale was at the side, but actually it was a rather slick pre-recording of him I think. Quite seemless though.
Suddenly made sense why they got those 'nobody' co-presenters that would simply read out the jackpot now.
scottishtv
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ohwhatanight posted:
I wonder if the lottery programme on BBC1 is pre-recorded earlier?
I think they are. I got that impression last week when I saw the midweek draw. You would never see Dale and the blonde guy co-presenter who tells you the prize fund etc. (the obviously live stuff) at the same time. It was like Dale was at the side, but actually it was a rather slick pre-recording of him I think. Quite seemless though.
Suddenly made sense why they got those 'nobody' co-presenters that would simply read out the jackpot now.
W1
It shouldn't be a technical problem in the speed of the wires getting through. Maybe their old caption generator had a copy and paste facility from the wire into the software, and the new one doesn't? Sky have retained 2 line astons - and I know people at News24 find it hard to squeeze a story, quickly, into about seven words.
Sky faster 9 times out of ten from wires? A bit much! If both decided to go with the same wire at the same time, in the last few months before the relaunch News24 were actually quicker on average (measured on wires that obviously HAD to be broken asap, rather than the more marginal ones where discussion might be needed). Go back a year or so and Sky were comfortably faster. News 24 was getting its act together before this relaunch!
One observation - and I hope this doesn't seem inappropriate in the morning. The "old" Sky seemed to have a George Best obsession. They'd go big on any health scare or brush with the law, leave the aston up for hours, swamp the story with correspondents. Now it seems there is a genuinely big George best story, they're running it third (actually just up to second). Personally, I think they used to go over the top and their current emphasis is about right, but it's odd that they're not going bigger on it.
Maybe tonight's output editor will be getting a rocket up the proverbial tomorrow morning for breaking one of the oldest Sky commandments - Thou Shalt Always Lead On George Best.
cat posted:
It'd be interesting to see exactly why that happened -- the news will have come from the same wire, and both be monitoring them constantly... it sounds as though Sky have a serious technical issue if they are being constantly late with things coming from the wires. Pre-relaunch and 9 times out of 10 they'd be ahead of the other two by at least a minute or so. It seems very odd.
It shouldn't be a technical problem in the speed of the wires getting through. Maybe their old caption generator had a copy and paste facility from the wire into the software, and the new one doesn't? Sky have retained 2 line astons - and I know people at News24 find it hard to squeeze a story, quickly, into about seven words.
Sky faster 9 times out of ten from wires? A bit much! If both decided to go with the same wire at the same time, in the last few months before the relaunch News24 were actually quicker on average (measured on wires that obviously HAD to be broken asap, rather than the more marginal ones where discussion might be needed). Go back a year or so and Sky were comfortably faster. News 24 was getting its act together before this relaunch!
One observation - and I hope this doesn't seem inappropriate in the morning. The "old" Sky seemed to have a George Best obsession. They'd go big on any health scare or brush with the law, leave the aston up for hours, swamp the story with correspondents. Now it seems there is a genuinely big George best story, they're running it third (actually just up to second). Personally, I think they used to go over the top and their current emphasis is about right, but it's odd that they're not going bigger on it.
Maybe tonight's output editor will be getting a rocket up the proverbial tomorrow morning for breaking one of the oldest Sky commandments - Thou Shalt Always Lead On George Best.
AN
And here's the fab Angelie Rowe doing overnight. I wonder if Angelie and Martin will share overnights? Would be a shame to see the back of Gordon and Michael.
SC
I've already said this today, but where's Gordon and Kevin? Hope they haven't quietly been dropped. Might be on holiday, but would seem a strange week for them to want to take off.
scottishtv
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all new Phil posted:
And here's the fab Angelie Rowe doing overnight. I wonder if Angelie and Martin will share overnights? Would be a shame to see the back of Gordon and Michael.
I've already said this today, but where's Gordon and Kevin? Hope they haven't quietly been dropped. Might be on holiday, but would seem a strange week for them to want to take off.