The BBC has announced that BBC News Interactive will launch on
Nov 20th
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RW
Liquid News tonight showed a brief preview of what BBC News Interactive looks like. It's not a multi-screen thing (I think Sky News Interactive shows four screens at once - am I right?) but instead there's a menu on the left hand side with the four options which you scroll up and down with the chosen option displayed on the screen on the right. The usual coloured menu options are across the bottom and the whole thing looks very much in a BBC Text (sorry, BBCi) stylee.
>News Headlines (3 minute bulletin commissioned by News 24),
What an original idea!
> Sports Round Up (again something Sky haven't got, this bit will be based on the video bulletin they already do for Sport Online but updated more often during the day),
Wrong. Sky do have sport bulletins on the service, they also have a sports section. And when Sky News Active relaunches with 8 or 9 screens there will be plenty of space for a sport service. The sports bulletin is normally on instead of entertainment at weekends - when there's actually some sport to talk about. And it is a NEWS service, not a sport service. Plus, Sky have their own 24 hour sports news channel.
> Weather Forecast (self explanatory) and
Again, nice to see the BBC Espionage Department isn't under-funded.
>probably the best one, News Plus, which is going to have the debates/forums that usually go on BBC online, and live coverage of certain events. And you can email/SMS your views on particular issues in the usual way and they will be included in the programme.
Sky viewers can email using Sky Active - and that's always mentioned. Also, Sky actually bother to read emails out on air - News 24 never seem to. Sky also has a voting system. Sky also change the bottom two screens for live events and reports. Sky also have a screen for business news - more important than sport IMO. OK?
>And the great thing about that is, reading between the lines, the BBC will now be able to run those trails for Panorama debates etc. after the one o'clock news referring to BBCi, with a nice red button presumably appearing for DSAT viewers taking you straight into the service.
Great! They've only been telling you press the red button on Sky for about a year.
>People on digital cable will be the first people who can interact directly with the forums using the TV, followed by DSAT and DTT in a few months time.
Of course, all of this costs money. Not sure about you but I'm not prepared to pay 4p a minute to log on through my TV.
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c@t posted:
Quote: from William on 11:50 am on Nov. 7, 2001
>Four quarter screens for initial launch
According to the pictures shown on Liquid News it's not a split-screen job at all but instead looks rather more like BBC Text.
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burblebrox
This from c@t:
'....when Sky News Active relaunches, it'll have 8 or 9 screens....'
This from FT.com:
'Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, pledged to cut a minimum of $200m in costs over the next year to gird against continued weakness in the advertising market.'
Error. mismatch.....erm, fzzzzt.
Also from c@t:
'I'm not prepared to pay 4p a minute to log on through my TV.'
It doesn't cost anything for D-Cable viewers to send an e-mail/SMS
BTW, if a news bulletin is so unoriginal, what did you expect them to put on a NEWS Interactive channel?
Knitting?
(Edited by burblebrox at 6:39 pm on Nov. 8, 2001)
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MikeG
Quote:
Also from c@t:
'I'm not prepared to pay 4p a minute to log on through my TV.'
It doesn't cost anything for D-Cable viewers to send an e-mail/SMS
Does it cost on ITV Digital/Sky Digital? If so - tough! One thing I get for free and you don't! Lol!
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burblebrox
Yes it's the cost of a phone call through the set-top box modem - plus whatever profit the broadcaster and the platform decides to charge.
For Sky it's 25p, and for Big Brother on D-Sat it was 25p as well, although 5p went to charity. The cost of the call alone is more likely to be 10p or 15p.
I'm not sure what the cost of calls to ITVDigital are, though I suspect it'll be about the same.
