Anyway, it's not all doom and gloom for Look North; from the Plain English Campaign's website:
Quote:
Media awards
Our judges consider how well entrants have used plain English, and how successfully and passionately they have fought gobbledygook.
These are the winners for 2004.
Best Regional Television:
BBC Look North (Yorkshire edition)
This is the first time the same programme has won this award two years in a row
, and for good reason. Our judges thought the programme's staff did the best job at performing the 'magic trick' of television news: speaking in a style that sounds like natural conversation, but giving clear, logically-organised and concise information that few of us manage in everyday chat. The writers also showed how words and pictures should be used in combination, and avoided the common (and irritating) mistake of simply telling the viewer what they were seeing.
[quote="Katherine"]Anyway, it's not all doom and gloom for Look North; from the Plain English Campaign's website:
Quote:
Media awards
Our judges consider how well entrants have used plain English, and how successfully and passionately they have fought gobbledygook.
These are the winners for 2004.
Best Regional Television:
BBC Look North (Yorkshire edition)
This is the first time the same programme has won this award two years in a row
, and for good reason. Our judges thought the programme's staff did the best job at performing the 'magic trick' of television news: speaking in a style that sounds like natural conversation, but giving clear, logically-organised and concise information that few of us manage in everyday chat.
The writers also
showed how words and pictures should be used in combination, and avoided the common (and irritating) mistake of simply telling the viewer what they were seeing.[/
quote]
Big it up for Alex Hall's Late Show!! I now have Radio Leeds care of internet streaming and she's a good presenter! Better than the Midlands equivalent!
Paul Hudson is to become Daddy Hudson in a few months - Nicola Hudson announced her pregnancy on the end of tonight's Hull show! Nicola was presenting alongside Peter as Helen Philpot's in Lapland!
Did any Yorkshire Look North viewers see tonight's cock up on the late news? Ian White went into his second news story about train officers having abuse thrown at them by angry passengers. However, when the controllers cut to the report, the Look North title and graphics, always shown at the beginning of the bulletins, came up instead - with no audio. Ian apologised for the error and we saw the full report a few minutes later.
Did any Yorkshire Look North viewers see tonight's cock up on the late news? Ian White went into his second news story about train officers having abuse thrown at them by angry passengers. However, when the controllers cut to the report, the Look North title and graphics, always shown at the beginning of the bulletins, came up instead - with no audio. Ian apologised for the error and we saw the full report a few minutes later.
Viewers might have found the following scenes disturbing.....
Did any Yorkshire Look North viewers see tonight's cock up on the late news? Ian White went into his second news story about train officers having abuse thrown at them by angry passengers. However, when the controllers cut to the report, the Look North title and graphics, always shown at the beginning of the bulletins, came up instead - with no audio. Ian apologised for the error and we saw the full report a few minutes later.
And then crashed into the national weather - which was appalling, I'd only tuned in at the end to see the national headlines... surely they can't just decide to overrun and cut them.
Big it up for Alex Hall's Late Show!! I now have Radio Leeds care of internet streaming and she's a good presenter! Better than the Midlands equivalent!
I assume you're talking about Frances'I was on the Weakest Link once' Finn broadcast from Nottingham.
And then crashed into the national weather - which was appalling, I'd only tuned in at the end to see the national headlines... surely they can't just decide to overrun and cut them.
Indeed. I'd only tuned in at 10.30 so I wondered what was going on, I hadn't seen the earlier cockup.
11 weeks later and the technical difficulties seem to be getting worse as the time goes on. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at those Look North production meetings