It is possible to have banter and to seriously present the news. Bob Friend managed it for years!
I imagine Sunrise will include interviews in the soft area, with special reports, showbiz, business, sport, and news updates. I'd also expect a Paper Review... that always has banter.
But I wouldnt expect a GMTV Clone, to trashy and tacky.
Is there something wrong with you?
Is there something wrong with you? Martin's comment was perfectly valid. Why don't you go and take your head out of your bum, then learn how to spell "worn", not "weared" as you said in another thread.
Speculation in tonight's Evening Hearld that Grainne Seoige is to move from Sky News Ireland to the main service. (It has to be said that this has been speculated ever since she joined Sky). The presenter herself declined to comment.
So......Sky News are to relaunch with new studios and on-air look with new presenters and reporters
The new building will see Sky News move from its current studio, which has been home to Sky since it launched in February 1989.
The studios includes new technology, the all server based Quantel production system - which will improve Sky News� production processes.
No pictures or more information have being reliesed than this.But the new studio has completely finsihed everything IS in place and rehearsals are taking place.
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Seeing as Ana Boulter and Helen Fospero have both made appearances on Sky News recently, I take it that we can expect more female presenters than just Lisa to leave? Especially if Helen stays, seeing as Barbara Serra appears to have taken over her job at Five.
Lisa Aziz's last shifts next weekend apparently - presumably her final one will be the graveyard shift next Sunday?
"Just spotted"? Your post is within 1 minute of the listing date for the item.
If you want to sell something, at least have the respect to do it honestly in the lounge.
I'm just a student with a book to sell.
How sad that you wasted minutes of your life to research the times of the postings.
Do you feel very superior now?
The studios includes new technology, the all server based Quantel production system - which will improve Sky News� production processes.
Another major Quantel contract then! They already have BBC News moving over to their system (a BBC Technology-now-Siemens / Quantel joint venture), the BBC regions who are now moving to digital production (Norwich, Birmingham, Leeds, Hull and Newcastle?) are using the latest system, GMTV and ITN have been on their previous system for years, and ESPN in the states are also a major (their largest) customer for their server playout and editing platforms.
Be interesting to know what integration scheme (Omnibus, IBIS etc.) they are using.
(Also an interesting contrast to ITV News - but not ITN - who are moving to Avid server editing in their regional centres.)
Please excuse my tv ignorance but I always associate the name Quantel with a piece of technology that could manipulate pictures. Kenny Everett and Top Of The Pops in the 80's were great users of this. Who or what is Quantel exactly?
Please excuse my tv ignorance but I always associate the name Quantel with a piece of technology that could manipulate pictures. Kenny Everett and Top Of The Pops in the 80's were great users of this. Who or what is Quantel exactly?
Quantel is a British company, based in Newbury, that makes video and film production and post production kit. (It also used to make medical imaging and military vision processing stuff but I think this is no longer the case)
Quantel - since the mid 70s - produce kit that processes TV pictures digitally (QUANtized TELevision) Their first major broadcast device was a synchroniser (a digital frame store that allows remote sources to be synchronised through storage rather than genlocking) - and they then realised that because the image was being stored it could be manipulated - and they produced one of the first DVEs (Digital Video Effects devices) This device was used for corner-shrinks in the 1976 Olympics.
In the late 70s and early 80s Quantel had a major slice of the DVE market (DVEs shrink, zoom, rotate, slide, push and otherwise move and process live video) - and the term "Quantel" became gallery shorthand for such a transition - like Wipe, Mix, Cut , just like "Aston" has become shorthand for caption.
In the 80s Quantel produced an amazing DVE called Mirage - which set the standard for years to come (though was huge, expensive and quite difficult to program) - but other manufacturers came into the market with more cost effective devices, and Quantel concentrated on other areas of their product line. (They made a cheaper DVE called Encore - but Questech's Charisma was a bigger success - though Questech recently went bust...)
Quantel also produced - and continue to produce - Paintbox, arguably still the best graphics creation device for video work (especially close to air stuff - and available in an HD version in the very early 90s). Their product line also included Harry and Henry (some of the earliest digital disc based editing kit), and other stuff like Domino (digital production for film resolution), HAL (a cross between Paintbox and Harry), Harriet (Paintbox with a short RAM store for live video), Cypher (a 3D caption generator with amazing-for-its-time animation facilities), Graphic Paintbox (used for incredibly high resolution work), as well as Picturebox (one of the standard still store devices) etc.
These days Quantel still have Paintbox products, and their server and stand-alone editing systems (eQ, iQ, QEdit, QEdit Pro, QCut etc.) offer Film, HD and SD editing across a range of quality levels, from high-end film and commercial production, to cuts-only journalist news editing.
They aren't usually the cheapest supplier - but they are often at the very cutting edge of technology - and are pragmatic about hardware as well as software solutions. (They still have video roots, and build platforms for video, rather than always tacking video kit into off-the-shelf PCs or Macs, though the latter is also a solution they now offer at the lower end)
Thanks for that very informative, I didn't know that quantel has entered the language in the same way hoover has. Quite a claim to fame. I also remember something called Clio being mentioned, curved, linear something. It was used a lot by Going live in it's later years and Top Of The Pops, seemed the BBC were very keen on it more so than the other networks.
