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Davidjb
Founding member
With response to a post earlier in this thread. The current News 24 set was built over a period of 2 weekends. The new set may be taking longer so that the air conditioning system can be installed properly this time. Its actually quite difficult to put air con into a studio in the middle of a big room which generates a lot of heat cause the cold air escapes easily from the studio.
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A former member
In answer to someone's earlier quuestion - Yes, David Lowe has produced the new music for News 24. He has worked on it throughout the summer. And before anyone asks me, the answer is No, I havent heard it and No, I wont be hearing it before it is aired.
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A former member
Poor old David. While I've been having a fab summer on the beach and having kinky hotel stays, he's been in his studio making music. 
Mind, I bet he gets paid a fortune!
Mind, I bet he gets paid a fortune!
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A former member
There is a piece on the News 24 revamp in today's Observer:
www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1041435,00.html
www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1041435,00.html
MD
News 24 has a bigger budget, but in my opinion BBC World is much better in presentation and its programming schedule.
The current format of Business today is based on the success of WBR. News 24 barely has adds different programmes in their shedules. you'll see a diff. show every 3 hrs, yet on World, its every 30 mins and some shows are put on at odd times of the day. There needs to be a balance in programming, abit of business, travel, news, sport. not just all news.
The backdrop of News 24 needs to have people behind in action to show that is a rolling service, like World. Ive found that news 24 headline music is not fast-paced unlike World.
The current format of Business today is based on the success of WBR. News 24 barely has adds different programmes in their shedules. you'll see a diff. show every 3 hrs, yet on World, its every 30 mins and some shows are put on at odd times of the day. There needs to be a balance in programming, abit of business, travel, news, sport. not just all news.
The backdrop of News 24 needs to have people behind in action to show that is a rolling service, like World. Ive found that news 24 headline music is not fast-paced unlike World.
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Yes I think N24 could do with having a headline bed similar to World's in that there are thunderclaps in it, so the presenters have to read the headlines out with a bit more pace. Rather than the current bed where the bor(ing)/(ed) presenter just ambles through the headlines seemingly without any urgency.
Maybe after the relaunch they will try to make it seem a bit more fast-paced, but I don't hold out any hope...
A former member
MarkDC posted:
Ive found that news 24 headline music is not fast-paced unlike World.
Yes I think N24 could do with having a headline bed similar to World's in that there are thunderclaps in it, so the presenters have to read the headlines out with a bit more pace. Rather than the current bed where the bor(ing)/(ed) presenter just ambles through the headlines seemingly without any urgency.
Maybe after the relaunch they will try to make it seem a bit more fast-paced, but I don't hold out any hope...
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Sput
Even without the thunderclaps, world's bed is more interesting because the pitch alternates at the start, sort of like a siren and then it resolves into a new chord and grows louder at the end. Far better for rolling news because it's got more urgency to it but remains open-ended (one of Lowe's better creations I feel).
It's a shame that News 24 didn't nick it after the Iraq war, they had a good chance as they'd used it for that.
Also in that Observer article, I found this interesting...
Now this might work quite well with their newfound "willingness" to analyse if they use it correctly. They've kinda used one with CSO (right down to cheesey superimposed handrails) but not to much effect really.
It's a shame that News 24 didn't nick it after the Iraq war, they had a good chance as they'd used it for that.
Also in that Observer article, I found this interesting...
An Observer Observer posted:
Dark tales abound over at Sky's Osterley news centre that the BBC plans to nick its celebrated 'news wall', the phenomenon put to such good use during the invasion of Afghanistan
Now this might work quite well with their newfound "willingness" to analyse if they use it correctly. They've kinda used one with CSO (right down to cheesey superimposed handrails) but not to much effect really.
CA
Why would it work quite well?
It would be yet another blatant copy of Sky by News 24 - something the BBC are trying to hard to avoid. Sky are clearly making the Newswall part of their studio designs - as has been seen with the latest Westminster studio.
If News 24 relaunched with a giant newswall behind the set, it'd look like a carbon copy of Sky, and utterly defeat the object of trying to make the channel more distinctive.
Sput posted:
Now this might work quite well with their newfound "willingness" to analyse if they use it correctly. They've kinda used one with CSO (right down to cheesey superimposed handrails) but not to much effect really.
Why would it work quite well?
It would be yet another blatant copy of Sky by News 24 - something the BBC are trying to hard to avoid. Sky are clearly making the Newswall part of their studio designs - as has been seen with the latest Westminster studio.
If News 24 relaunched with a giant newswall behind the set, it'd look like a carbon copy of Sky, and utterly defeat the object of trying to make the channel more distinctive.