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Tom W
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
The 6 business correspondents are: Ursula Errington(who was doing business stories this week), Paul Harrison, Joel Hills, Mark Kelinman, Anna Jones and now this new girl


Anna Jones, Nina de Roy and Jeff Randell are Business Presenters- a completely different role to that of correspondent. Mark is City Editor who again, is not a correspondent.
LJ
Live at five with Jeremy
Thom Woodworth posted:
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
The 6 business correspondents are: Ursula Errington(who was doing business stories this week), Paul Harrison, Joel Hills, Mark Kelinman, Anna Jones and now this new girl


Anna Jones, Nina de Roy and Jeff Randell are Business Presenters- a completely different role to that of correspondent. Mark is City Editor who again, is not a correspondent.


Oh well sorry then, I should have been more specific although Anna Jones gives us the business news throughout the day and is frequently used when business stories are in the main news so she may not be a correspondent but she still frequently does report business stories. Mark Kleinman may as well be a business correspondent because what he does is no different to what the other business presenters do
EX
excel99
When Ursula has been doing business stories recently, the name strap just said she was a 'Sky Reporter' and she hasn't been introduced as a business reporter or correspondent which would seem to imply she is back as a general reporter and just hapenned to be covering business stories. And FWIW her bio on the Sky News website says she is a general reporter

Though with such a big business team, it is surprising that so often general reporters or news presenters end up doing business reporting or presenting (e.g. Sarah-Jane Mee doing the business news today alongside the news headlines)
Last edited by excel99 on 6 November 2009 9:26pm
DA
David
Just saw a 4 or 5 minute report on the Texas shootings and it was really badly edited. A spokesperson was cut off mid sentence and then a whole section was repeated again later in the report. Has this report been shown like this earlier or was 1am its first showing?

Edit: Another report just lost sound/didn't have a sign off from the reporter to show that it had reached the end so continued in vision only for a couple of seconds before Sky returned to the studio. They don't seem to be mentioning these problems though, although the subtitler is doing a good job at flagging these problems up for deaf viewers.
Last edited by David on 7 November 2009 1:16am
LR
Lost The Remote
Hmm, no live coverage of the Berlin Wall Anniversary?

Both BBC News and CNN International are taking the feed, but business as usual on Sky with the web news.
FO
fodg09
Lost The Remote posted:
Hmm, no live coverage of the Berlin Wall Anniversary?

Both BBC News and CNN International are taking the feed, but business as usual on Sky with the web news.


I was just about to defend them saying they were doing other news but they are now discussing....a new videogame..
GI
gillw72
deejay posted:
There are boxes like this all over the place, though they aren't usually left open. I suspect the crew wasn't very far away! They're known as inject points and are often shared facilities between the news organisations. Most in London at busy locations contain sockets for Sky, ITN and the BBC, some for the news agencies as well. They all vary in what they offer, but typically there will be plug in points for video and audio and associated return audio paths for the earpiece. Some have mains electricity available like this one, some have telephone points. As you can imagine, inject points at busy locations like College Green are pretty comprehensive and cable reels and other kit can often be stored in them or in another cupboard nearby. Other inject points can be pretty basic. There are far fewer in ject points outside London. Regional inject points tend to be at more secure locations within broadcasing buildings, town halls, exhibition centres and so-on. They often are connected to the nearest local radio or television station for routing on to the destination.

Obviously while these boxes are connected physically to news organisations, don't think you'll be able to take over a network from one. Unless the circuit is booked it's unlikely anyone at TV Centre, BT Tower or wherever is going to be looking at the box's lines when you plug into it...


Thank you very much for this info. Do you know how the circuits are delivered? Do they use ADSL or T1 data circuits? I assume College Green uses fibre back to Millbank.
FO
fodg09
Martin Stanford getting a bit emotional reading out emails on Sky's fitting tribute programme to the "Fallen Heroes". Really touching tributes thus far.
IS
Inspector Sands
gillw posted:

Thank you very much for this info. Do you know how the circuits are delivered? Do they use ADSL or T1 data circuits? I assume College Green uses fibre back to Millbank.

Neither, they're video/audio circuits. They'll either be just wire if they're going into a nearby building, like College Green to Millbank. For those that go further AIUI there's some sort of BT line back to base. Many will have a phone line for comms, the one in the picture has 'prog audio' which is the return audio feed from the studio

The newer ones around London use a dark fibre network that connects up plug in points, TV studios and other insert points such as The Stock Exchange, the big banks and city institutions
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 11 November 2009 10:12pm
NG
noggin Founding member
gillw posted:

Thank you very much for this info. Do you know how the circuits are delivered? Do they use ADSL or T1 data circuits? I assume College Green uses fibre back to Millbank.


Older circuits will be analogue coax (the BBC used to have a coax ring main around London called LOCO - LOndon COax - bits of which are still used I believe) with newer circuits using point-to-point digital fibre usually (at 140Mbs for composite or more commonly 270Mbs for component). Some paths may also use analogue microwave links for part of the circuit.

ADSL isn't used for contribution circuits - the bitrate is nowhere near high enough. Broadcasters used to use 34Mbs compressed component for contributions (to allow 4 contributions over a 140Mbs circuit previously used for digital composite), but most now use 270Mbs uncompressed digital component (as ensuring high quality upstream improves compression downstream)

(BBC Channel Islands use - or used to - multiple DSL circuits to get the Jersey studio feed back to Plymouth for encoding and uplink - but that is very much a specific anomaly)
GI
gillw72
Glen O'Glaza has had his HD test Very Happy

Quote:
From Twitter: Just had my eyebrows plucked for the first time ever! according to the sylist, it's all I have to do ahead of Sky News going HD ! Phew !



Ps. thanks for the techie replies on the comms links. Cool
FU
fusionlad Founding member
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