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bbc one news changes

(October 2001)

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noggin Founding member
Techy Peep posted:
A video image is made up of varying levels of volts. Black is 0v (0%), white is 0.7v (100%).
It is standard practise throughout the TV industry to have black set at 5% so the viewer is guaranteed to see all the detail.

World 'crush' their blacks, so some detail is lost. If it were possible, their blacks would be minus volts.

However, saying that, crushing the blacks gives the illusion of cleaner & sharper images. Try it yourself on your TV... increase your brightness & contrast controls - don't you think the picture looks soft by doing that?

Now decrease the brightness - doesn't it look sharper?


<Anorak mode on>

World and 24 are digital so to be truly anorakky - Black is 16, White is 220 (in 8 bit digital video...)

<Anorak mode off>

Sorry to be so sad... And yes - How were World able to run with such crushed cameras, yet with such a sat-up plasma for so long.  (The camera shots had no detail in the blacks, yet the blacks in the plasma were nearer a bright grey!)

(Edited by noggin at 9:42 pm on Oct. 12, 2001)
DA
david16
They presently show the BBC breakfast programme on both BBC 1 and BBC News 24 at the same time.

Shouldn't the BBC do the same for the One O'clock News, 6 O'Clock News and 10 O'Clock News, because it seems silly and a waste of licence payers money to spend on 2 different sets of presenters, 2 different bulletins on BBC 1 and News 24, but the very same news.

Newsnight could also be simulcast between BBC 2 and BBC News 24 as well at 10.30pm.
GA
Gary Founding member
That's quite a reasonable point, but if that were the case, what would be the point of BBC News 24? Because they would be showing the same things on both channels.
MM
MillyMaster
They may as well do a revamp of the news studios when the BBC News Center moves in a few years (I think it's going to move to Broadcasting House). Does anyone know if the news studios will move to the new BBC News Center when everything switches there, or will they stay at TVC?
IN
indigoBen
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

No simulcasting.
BBC 1/2 news are supposed to cater to different audiences from News 24.

N24 is rolling news, Bulletins on the main channels are supposed to be summaries of everything so far. News 24 should be where we turn for in-depth analysis of what's going on now, not somewhere to see what Huw Edwards looks like with black-er blacks in the picture!!!!
IA
Ian
RB posted:
The 10 is most likely to change. It has a new editor. It might go single-anchor. I mean by that that there will be just one regular presenter, like every other major bulletin. Who's it likely to be?


Please no!!! I was thinking of suggesting the opposite! It gets boring knowing it's gonna be either Buerk or Sissons (as it has been for years - long before Huw became the 'face of the six'). They need a third presenter. Got to be someone quite mature (i.e. getting on a bit). Got to be someone popular with authority. It's got to be Philip Hayton!
TR
Tristan
But then the World/24 viewers will lose Hayton...

And if I can't see him every night on PBS, I will be very sad. Sad
IT
itsrobert Founding member
I've met Phil, and he's great! I think he's an excellent news presenter and is definitely the best at BBC News.
DA
david16
Does Martyn Lewis still present news on the BBC.

It's also great to see that Philip Hayton is going very strong on BBC News 24/World.

If Lewis is still around, why don't the BBC bring back Nicholas Witchell, Hayton and Lewis to return as anchor presenters on BBC 1 again on the main weekday bulletins.

And why don't the BBC offer Sue Lawley the chance of presenting the day's main news again.

Return the news to the old 2 presenter format at 6 O'Clock and 10.

It will feel like the good old days once again.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
Unfortunately, Martyn Lewis no longer works for the BBC (AFAIK!). They decided to replace him with Huw Edwards on the Six, and they offered him a job on the BBC's global news channel, BBC World. He turned that down, and moved on I think. I've not seen him since then.
MA
Martin Founding member
itsrobert posted:
Unfortunately, Martyn Lewis no longer works for the BBC (AFAIK!). They decided to replace him with Huw Edwards on the Six, and they offered him a job on the BBC's global news channel, BBC World. He turned that down, and moved on I think. I've not seen him since then.


I wonder why he didnt take the job at BBC World since Philip Hayton took the job?
GA
Gary Founding member
I was under the impression that it was Martyn himself that decided to leave the BBC!

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