Hurricane Coverage

Oh come of it will you, Larry, and stop being so bloody silly.

It's a fantastic story - great pictures, live coverage, Washington DC shut down, flights cancelled, potentially millions if not billions of pounds worth of damage, casualties and deaths.

I'm sorry, Larry, I know you're trying to be clever and take the Beeb into the dark ages of news coverage, when we weren't even allowed to see the person reading the story, but just take it for what it is - dramatic and eyecatching.

Rather than the brave new world where good pictures take precedent over news values?

I haven't seen them use it before, but then I am not a regular watcher of Littlejohn's show, so don't know what they usually do after it. Although I did watch it tonight and was quite impressed.

With regards to the CBS correspondent - Elizabeth someone? Elizabeth Cohen is, I think, a CBS correspondent so could've been her, can't remember. But she was doing live, hourly updates. Sky were probably opting into a clean feed of her live report for the CBS Early Show and the later CBS Special Report coverage, that's why they couldn't (at least from what I saw) do a two way with her, and that's why she just said "back to you" instead of "back to you... [name]"

The clean feeds Sky were using on News Active were from all of the US broadcasters. I heard everyone from Fox to ABC mentioned, including "Charlie and Diane" - the Good Morning America presenters.

Doesn't surprise me about Holiday Inn. They are s hit in the calmest of weathers.

Quite like Shepherd Smith's little moan on Fox News about the government shutting down, when all the Fox team seem to make it into work on time. He had a bit of a Victor Meldrew moment, very funny.

So, what are you suggesting, Larry?

That on TELEVISION news networks ignore PICTURES? Do you not think that Logie Baird would feel his contribution to society to be slightly undermined by that assertion?


Are you suggesting that news networks ignore the fact that Dulles International Airport and Reagan National Airport have practically been shut down and around 1000 flights across the East Coast have been cancelled?

You'd be the first to attack any news network for covering a story about Japan's weather issues if they were relying mainly on maps and weather satellites; you'd be attacking them for going with a story they had little information about.

When the alternative is "more of Andrew Gilligan", "Iraq in 'still quite bad situation here' non-shocker" or "Jailed ex-Tory shocks nation with the remarkable discovery that prisons aren't nice places afterall" then I think there really was only one lead story for the Six O'clock News.

Live Coverage from WRAL streaming on the internet from Raleigh/Durham North Carolina. http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1208729
Interersting live coverage from Channel 5 a local CBS affiliate in the path of Isabel.

Poor old Bob Friend having trouble with his names this evening. Still, he's on so little nowadays, it's always nice to see him.

I tottally agree with you about this being better than a boring graphic, but tell me who is making graphics when there is such great picture, this David Bowden thing achieved absolulty nothing except for us to see what it would be like in a Hurricane BUT that's not what its like in a Hurricane, he then turned it into a joke and a competion with Fox news, JT off the back didn't know whether to smile or not. Once again Sky goes OTT and turns news into an entertainment showcase; the Hutton reconstructions anyone?

These "live hits" are never used for the full network coverage. These are generic "live hits" for the hundreds of CBS affilites across the country. The service is called CBS NewsPath. All the networks and news channels have a "shadow" network for use by affiliates to use for live hits and special reports that the network would normally cover. They use their own reporters and such. Fox News Channel is called FOX NEWS EDGE. CNN's is called CNNnewsSource. NBC's is NBC NEWSCHANNEL. ABC's is called ABCNEWSone. They sell the live reports and footage to affiliates to use as a supplement to the network they are affiliated with.

here is the site for the CBS News affiliate service http://www.newspath.cbs.com/

Live Coverage from Washington DC
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This is from NewsChannel 8 - Washington's Local 24-hr News station.
Watch Live as Isabel hurtles toward the American capital.
http://www.news8.net/

Images of storm coverage on NBC station in Portsmouth

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1448226

LOL, just what is ITV's Robert Moore wearing over there ? He's in bright yellow cagoul and trousers, at least there's no chance of him going missing