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Steve Naylor
No, but the director, producer and editors surely deserve some credit - they do put the bulletin together!!
PE
Pete Founding member
BBCPrime posted:
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Quote: from Hymagumba on 12:34 am on July 15, 2001

[STRINGS BUILDING] The next news on BBC One is Breakfast at 6am where Sophie Rayworth and Jeremy Bowen will be lookin at the uses of ITV Digital leaflets as contreceptive.



I beg your pardon?!?!? Very Happy


Well it's an idea, how small is N6 by the way?
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noggin Founding member
Newsnight on BBC Two often runs a full credit roller, though on many occasions just a short close is used.

Working Lunch also run a credit sequence.

I think Breakfast with Frost and On the Record may well run credits as well, Newsround do as well.
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Steve Naylor
Yes, and Channel 4 News and 5 News also run credit sequences - you wouldn't have to have them all the time but perhaps on a Friday you could have short credits.

As for N6 - it's quite small and also cluttered with the cameras, studio, projectors and UK Today desk - plus with all the lights there is no room for a pan across the studio by a camera on a rail.
PE
Pete Founding member
Steve Naylor posted:
Yes, and Channel 4 News and 5 News also run credit sequences - you wouldn't have to have them all the time but perhaps on a Friday you could have short credits.

As for N6 - it's quite small and also cluttered with the cameras, studio, projectors and UK Today desk - plus with all the lights there is no room for a pan across the studio by a camera on a rail.


Pity
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SkyNews
CNN often have their anchor reading out the credits!

If they have time to fill, their anchor will say: 'and that's all for the moment. We thank Mike Hana in Jerusalem, Peter Humi in Paris etc etc etc for contributing to this programme.'
PE
Pete Founding member
that sounds really tacky
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SkyNews
It does & its so obvious they are filling
PE
Pete Founding member
cheap tacky news never gets you anywhere
PE
Pete Founding member
Asa posted:
Hymagumba posted:
when did they use to do that?
For a few months after bringing in in-vision presenters. They'd go 'downstairs' (or upstairs - I forget which) on a Friday and play out with a band and credits scrolling across the bottom. It would end on a static CITV slide with something like 'Executive Producer' and 'Producer' or something!

I assume that studio became the main one when they relaunched with a bigger studio.

Cheers, Asa


Anyone think they should play ut with a band on fridays brekkie? i do
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SkyNews
Since when do children's programmes have bands, don't they just have people miming to a soundtrack that they didn't write in the 1st place!


(Edited by SkyNews at 7:14 pm on July 15, 2001)
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Isonstine Founding member
What a good idea!

You could have the BBC orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall playing an extended version of the Breakfast theme. Well maybe not, actually that would be something that the RDA would do. Smile

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