Television News: 20 years on

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tvmercia Founding member 28 August 2005 4:08pm

noggin posted:

Isonstine posted:

noggin posted:

The BBC have announced a trial of local news in the Midlands I believe. The aim is to expand the web Where I Live regions into small TV operations - run on VJ-lines. The broadcasts will be about 10 mins, downloadable on the web, and run as a carousel service on a DSat channel (so there will be 6 different mini-regions in an hour?)

Yes, information so far has said regional news will be available at "fixed times" on a satellite interactive service. Also there was some interesting information going round that the Midlands WIL trial will also utilise mobile phone technology though I'm not sure how that will work.

I guess that could mean :

1. Mobile phones are used for newsgathering - presumably for stills rather than video, as mobile phone video quality is still not quite there.
2. That the bulletins could be streamed TO mobile phones?

i haven't heard anything regarding the use of mobile phone stills. the newsgathering comprises of reversioned midlands today reports augmented with extra stories compiled by VJs in the counties. as i said somewhere else on the forum, part of the time will be devoted to community content, generated within the counties and shown within the appropriate segment.

they are concentrating on delivery to DSAT and broadband, but i believe 3G phones are under consideration

JO

Jonathan 28 August 2005 6:55pm

I thought we paid a TV license for television, not multimedia.

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tvmercia Founding member 28 August 2005 7:35pm

me_for_nina posted:

I thought we paid a TV license for television, not multimedia.

it would be very naive to think that the way in which television is delivered and the way in which it is consumed is not going to develop in the years to come. to restrict the bbc to broadcasting their content in the traditional way would be a death sentence. it would be like the radio licence fee payers in the last century saying "we pay our licence fee to listen to the radio, not for the bbc to be dabbling in television".

JO

Jonathan 28 August 2005 7:46pm

tvmercia posted:

me_for_nina posted:

I thought we paid a TV license for television, not multimedia.

it would be very naive to think that the way in which television is delivered and the way in which it is consumed is not going to develop in the years to come. to restrict the bbc to broadcasting their content in the traditional way would be a death sentence. it would be like the radio licence fee payers in the last century saying "we pay our licence fee to listen to the radio, not for the bbc to be dabbling in television".

Yeh, I guess that's what this thread is all about.

CN

CN 30 August 2005 9:46am

I guess another major development may well be the look and delivery of BBC News once it moves to central London and into the new news centre at Broadcasting House. Will all the BBC's News output get a 1999-esque rebrand or will it be done in the style used today? Only time will tell but I reckon that will mark a very significant start of a new era in television news.

What becomes of the other news networks over the next 20 years will also be interesting. Sky News is about to embrace major change but with the BBC making the move in 2008/9, will Sky do anything significant to rival that? Will other networks (CNN, etc) come into the UK and provide us with a CNN UK service with full regionality? Just an idea but surely a possibility.

NG

noggin Founding member 30 August 2005 10:35am

CN posted:

What becomes of the other news networks over the next 20 years will also be interesting. Sky News is about to embrace major change but with the BBC making the move in 2008/9, will Sky do anything significant to rival that? Will other networks (CNN, etc) come into the UK and provide us with a CNN UK service with full regionality? Just an idea but surely a possibility.

I guess whether CNN launch a UK-specific service would depend entirely on whether they think they could make a profit in doing so. Making money out of news is still far from easy - as newsgathering isn't cheap. My gut feeling is that we won't see many more UK services run by BIG names - though we may see low cost, low production value operations from people like local radio and newspaper groups, in addition to the BBC WiL sites TV-offspring.

It will be interesting to see how Sky embrace the huge technical and editorial changes their move to new technology will allow. Until this change, Sky has been incredibly traditional in its production methods (especially compared to the much lower staffing levels of ITV News and BBC News 24 - in transmission terms), so it will be an interesting time for them.

(August 2005)