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NickyS
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The ABC service is News One ... and as people have said they do what are known as Group Live Shots ... basically at exactly one minute past the top of the hour, and if it's a big story normally at 31 minutes past the hour the correspondent start speaking. They normally cue into a package which is either played in live or from their digital server. The correspondent picks up at the end of the package and at the end says 'back to you'. So all the local affliates can run a headline sequence and then cue live to the correspondent so it looks like they have someone there.
They then provide custom live shots when the local stations can actually do a two-way with the correspondent. These are available to any local ABC station - and this tends to be what the BBC use. Say BBC World/News 24 or BBC Three just book one of these slots.
News One also provide packages on the top stories for the local stations. Most of the correspondents don't appear on the main ABC News programmes except at the weekends when you often see them pop up.
News One also provide feeds of pictures for all the ABC stations - this includes international stories.
The BBC has a version of News One for it's BBC Local Radio stations called the General News Service or GNS.
They then provide custom live shots when the local stations can actually do a two-way with the correspondent. These are available to any local ABC station - and this tends to be what the BBC use. Say BBC World/News 24 or BBC Three just book one of these slots.
News One also provide packages on the top stories for the local stations. Most of the correspondents don't appear on the main ABC News programmes except at the weekends when you often see them pop up.
News One also provide feeds of pictures for all the ABC stations - this includes international stories.
The BBC has a version of News One for it's BBC Local Radio stations called the General News Service or GNS.
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And you've just shown that you don't understand the story, Larry. It's not "strong winds" it's a hurricane. Broadly speaking, a mix of rain and wind; it's not some random tornado. If you'd bothered to watch the Six O'clock News you'd know it hasn't been this bad for a number of years.
OK then, they have a hurricane about twice a year.
Even fewer people give a toss about what Andrew Gilligan had on his personal organiser. I know the BBC has great difficulty in tearing itself away from covering a public inquiry of its own making, but just for once I think it was justified.
Why do you assume that I think that Hutton is more important.... I haven't mentioned it at all in this thread (or any thread in fact), personally I'm bored with it.... even though it is a very important story with potentially huge ramifications.
Neither am I saying that the hurricane shouldn't be mentioned at all, just not as the biggest news story of the day
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And you've just shown that you don't understand the story, Larry. It's not "strong winds" it's a hurricane. Broadly speaking, a mix of rain and wind; it's not some random tornado. If you'd bothered to watch the Six O'clock News you'd know it hasn't been this bad for a number of years.
OK then, they have a hurricane about twice a year.
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Even fewer people give a toss about what Andrew Gilligan had on his personal organiser. I know the BBC has great difficulty in tearing itself away from covering a public inquiry of its own making, but just for once I think it was justified.
Why do you assume that I think that Hutton is more important.... I haven't mentioned it at all in this thread (or any thread in fact), personally I'm bored with it.... even though it is a very important story with potentially huge ramifications.
Neither am I saying that the hurricane shouldn't be mentioned at all, just not as the biggest news story of the day