Still awake here, as WMP's chopper is right overhead drowning out my TV. A decent amount of coverage of the problems in Birmingham centre on both BBC and Sky (Sky keep playing a phone interview Lukwesa did with an amusement arcade owner), but little if nothing of what happened in Handsworth later. Seems the only people there were Sangat TV and Darshna Soni from Channel 4 News.
In 2010 when the G20 riots happened in Toronto, some stations relied on a suitcase/backback transmit units to get live video on the air from the riot areas. They transmitted over 3G cell phone networks, picture quality wasn't too bad either, little muddy at times but in the daytime it looked fine. Same station still uses them for their morning show when they want to get video of a traffic accident/transit incident back to the station quickly but without sending the microwave trucks out.
Another station in Toronto - using the same technology I believe - transmits video from a moving vehicle. The reporter sits in the passenger seat in the front and looks at the driver's direction where a camera is mounted just above. The quality is okay - the vehicles are also outfitted with microwave equipment to transmit from. They also had live video from a moving streetcar at one point.
Breakfast have scrapped the 'magazine' section to this mornings programme, opting for continuing coverage of the riots. News Channel are running their own coverage.
Breakfast have scrapped the 'magazine' section to this mornings programme, opting for continuing coverage of the riots. News Channel are running their own coverage.
Typical, the BBC doing two different things on the same subject. At the same time.
Breakfast have scrapped the 'magazine' section to this mornings programme, opting for continuing coverage of the riots. News Channel are running their own coverage.
Typical, the BBC doing two different things on the same subject. At the same time.
So what's the problem? I can only watch the news channel in the office, and they're providing rolling coverage mixed with interviews taken from Breakfast.
Seems perfectly sensible to me - especially as there's no shortage of reporters and guests to interview.
Just following the (much) earlier praise for Sky's Mark Stone - I wasn't feeling it to be honest. Fair enough getting pictures on the ground is great, but his interjecting with "Is this FUN? Are you having FUN?" Well I hardly need to draw The Day Today parallels - then feigning surprise when someone jumps him for his phone...
I just found his reporting style a bit crass. I guess crouching over a smashed flat screen was his 'Michael Buerk holding an Ethiopian baby' moment.
How are the pictures from the chopper linked back to base?
Here is a video explaining how TV news helicopters work -- yes, the video is almost 30 years old and from the United States, but the basic principles would likely be similar:
Extraordinary interview on BBC News with writer and broadcaster Darcus Howe, looking like he hadn't even got dressed and ranting incoherently like a drunkard, comparing the situation in London with uprisings in the Middle East, and appearing to justify the violence, looting and arson, because his grandson and other young black men had been stopped and searched by police.
Just following the (much) earlier praise for Sky's Mark Stone - I wasn't feeling it to be honest. Fair enough getting pictures on the ground is great, but his interjecting with "Is this FUN? Are you having FUN?" Well I hardly need to draw The Day Today parallels - then feigning surprise when someone jumps him for his phone...
Yeah I found that too. Echoes of Kay Burley there!
Extraordinary interview on BBC News with writer and broadcaster Darcus Howe, looking like he hadn't even got dressed and ranting incoherently like a drunkard, comparing the situation in London with uprisings in the Middle East, and appearing to justify the violence, looting and arson, because his grandson and other young black men had been stopped and searched by police.
I asked last night about riots in other parts of the uk, BBC news has now confirmed there was troubles in Notts, Liverpool, and Bristol. ( I did point this out these reports coming out from twitter but did the tv station ignore them? )
There was a old Jamaican gentlemen being interviewed with the bbc at 09.50, he seems to be lashing out a bit, ( some would say stick a blow to PC)
I agree with BBC LDN Point, it was very embarrassing for that man