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Steve Naylor
I'm sure Martin Lewis did a news flash at 2am or something to announce there had been an accident.
How long would it take (roughly) on any station to get a big announcement like that out. Obviously cheshirec will say Sky will be first
- but surely they must have to check and double check and prepare for the announcement.
(Edited by Steve Naylor at 3:09 pm on April 21, 2001)
How long would it take (roughly) on any station to get a big announcement like that out. Obviously cheshirec will say Sky will be first
- but surely they must have to check and double check and prepare for the announcement.
(Edited by Steve Naylor at 3:09 pm on April 21, 2001)
CA
Martin Lewis did the flash broadcast on all BBC Radio stations, BBC one and two. that was before they went to world coverage.
And what exactly happened was that there was an embargo placed on breaking the news, however, the PA broke the news, and because of their links to Sky, Sky were the first network, (quite a few mins before the BBC! And I have the tapes to prove it!) to flash it up on the screen, they were live in Paris at the time, but as the reporters didn't want to break the embargo set by Robin Cook who was in the Far East, the Paris correspondent simply had to say 'I cannot confirm it yet' with the accent firmly on the 'I' and 'yet'.
It took literally just a few moments from it flashing up on the PA wires.
After Reuters and the AP saw it on the PA wires they put it out on theirs too, as did AFP and Alpha and YNetworks etc.
They don't prepare for the annoucement, it is just 'Adlib', the story flashes up on the screen, like any other, just a lot more detail.
They have plans for WW3 yes.
And what exactly happened was that there was an embargo placed on breaking the news, however, the PA broke the news, and because of their links to Sky, Sky were the first network, (quite a few mins before the BBC! And I have the tapes to prove it!) to flash it up on the screen, they were live in Paris at the time, but as the reporters didn't want to break the embargo set by Robin Cook who was in the Far East, the Paris correspondent simply had to say 'I cannot confirm it yet' with the accent firmly on the 'I' and 'yet'.
It took literally just a few moments from it flashing up on the PA wires.
After Reuters and the AP saw it on the PA wires they put it out on theirs too, as did AFP and Alpha and YNetworks etc.
They don't prepare for the annoucement, it is just 'Adlib', the story flashes up on the screen, like any other, just a lot more detail.
They have plans for WW3 yes.
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Steve Naylor
Must be a mad dash to the news studio to broadcast the news first. Does anyone know how close most news studios are to the news rooms? I only know the BBC's which is really close - just off the news room in fact. I suspect Sky's is pretty close because the newsroom is behind it...
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Steve Naylor
Oh right, I'm a fool! It looks more real than the BBC main studio one anyway!
CA
We had a talk about this in the chatroom WHICH NO-ONE IS USING AT THE MOMENT!!
And....
I have been to Sky Centre and the newsroom is not at all behind the studio, that is just a project screen, hence they can alter it during Sky News At Ten.
Sky have quite a few newsrooms, including the Fox News room, the newsroom you see behind the Sky set is not at all the main bit, it is not where all of the journo's go, there are different newsrooms for different things.
The newsroom 'Behind' the Sky set is just the management bit, where news is sort of co-ordinated, if that makes sense.
The Sky newsrooms are all about the building, not in one central place, however, with the relaunch, they will all be grouped together as one.
I know the CNN/us newsroom is right behind the studio!
But they just send the data by computer so there is not really much need to run in there and give them a piece of paper.
And....
I have been to Sky Centre and the newsroom is not at all behind the studio, that is just a project screen, hence they can alter it during Sky News At Ten.
Sky have quite a few newsrooms, including the Fox News room, the newsroom you see behind the Sky set is not at all the main bit, it is not where all of the journo's go, there are different newsrooms for different things.
The newsroom 'Behind' the Sky set is just the management bit, where news is sort of co-ordinated, if that makes sense.
The Sky newsrooms are all about the building, not in one central place, however, with the relaunch, they will all be grouped together as one.
I know the CNN/us newsroom is right behind the studio!
But they just send the data by computer so there is not really much need to run in there and give them a piece of paper.
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Steve Naylor
I meant the presenters running into the news studios of non-rolling news services..... I've been in the chat room on and off - but noone else was there either!!
CA
I did, until I actually went there last year and walked into the studio and looked puzzled as I saw it was just a blue screen, with nothing there!
I asked where the hell the newsroom was and she sort of laughed at me, I had a right go at her.
It does look very real, it looks like there is a very thick window from the side shot, and the fact that they put a christmas , well two christmas trees right up against the 'glass', but the fact that they put the eclipse of the moon on the screen did sort of give it away a bit!!
they changed it for the budget as well, and Sky NAT.
I asked where the hell the newsroom was and she sort of laughed at me, I had a right go at her.
It does look very real, it looks like there is a very thick window from the side shot, and the fact that they put a christmas , well two christmas trees right up against the 'glass', but the fact that they put the eclipse of the moon on the screen did sort of give it away a bit!!
they changed it for the budget as well, and Sky NAT.
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Steve Naylor
Is it a plasma screen or just done with chroma-key - ie. just a blue screen all the time as you say?