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(July 2003)

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LO
Londoner
What's with the small gap at the bottom of the N24 astons? It gets on my nerves.
BB
Big Brother Founding member
newsbeat posted:
Does anyone else think the ticker text is a ridiculously big? I do, compare it to the size of Sky News and ITV News, and News 24 looks utterly stupid!


I think the ticker looks big because News 24 is in widescreen. If you shrunk the pic to 4:3 then the ticker is probably smaller in height than Sky/ITN but using a slightly larger font.

Also N24 looks god awful in 4:3, the square plain graphics etc really don't do it justice in 4:3
MD
mdtauk
N24 straps are larger than sky's in 4:3
HA
harshy Founding member
mromega posted:


I swear the N24 graphics team are on drugs!

BTW that is red, and a pretty horrible shade as well!
SP
sparkiestu
It's probably me who's wrong but just watching the overnight at 2am, and it seems the Live dog above the clock is smaller, and the astons / information strap at the top of the hour are smaller, vertically wise anyhow.

Are they using World's graphics as well as the studio, or have they been getting smaller of late?

Stu
MO
Moz
sparkiestu posted:
It's probably me who's wrong but just watching the overnight at 2am, and it seems the Live dog above the clock is smaller, and the astons / information strap at the top of the hour are smaller, vertically wise anyhow.

Are they using World's graphics as well as the studio, or have they been getting smaller of late?

Stu


Deja vu? Confused

Tut! Rolling Eyes
IT
itsrobert Founding member
sparkiestu posted:
It's probably me who's wrong but just watching the overnight at 2am, and it seems the Live dog above the clock is smaller, and the astons / information strap at the top of the hour are smaller, vertically wise anyhow.

Are they using World's graphics as well as the studio, or have they been getting smaller of late?

Stu


They were coming from BBC World last night, but they weren't using World's normal news graphics. I don't usually watch overnight, but I seem to remember someone saying on here that World's version of the joint graphics are slightly different to News 24's? Maybe someone can clarify that?
SP
sparkiestu
Moz posted:
sparkiestu posted:
It's probably me who's wrong but just watching the overnight at 2am, and it seems the Live dog above the clock is smaller, and the astons / information strap at the top of the hour are smaller, vertically wise anyhow.

Are they using World's graphics as well as the studio, or have they been getting smaller of late?

Stu


Deja vu? Confused

Tut! Rolling Eyes


Sorry if it's been brought up in this thread or somewhere else, but I can't wade through 35 odd pages!

Stu
RE
Re-it-er-ate
Yes, the LIVE Dog is the only change I think.

What seems to have happened is that World and news 24 were updated with the graphics when they first changed to the hideous red in April 2002 I think, but in Januray 2003 (with the new countdown etc) the News 24 Live DOG was changed to Bold, and World's was not updated.

For example (taken recently):

BBC World Overnight:
http://jolnetwork.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/captures/n24ovn1.jpg
http://jolnetwork.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/captures/n24ovn2.jpg

BBC News 24 Overnight:
http://jolnetwork.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/captures/n24ovn3.jpg
http://jolnetwork.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/captures/n24ovn4.jpg
(I like that moustache)

I think that is the only difference.
MO
Moz
Can anyone with inside knowledge tell us what's happening at the moment with the graphics, as something strange is going on.

You rarely now (if at all, I've not seen it) get the new swishy-slidey graphics with the spinning phones. I presume this was done with a different machine, is it broke?

Also text on the infostrap often just appears now rather than typing across.

Finally the change of the red breaking news banner to the red & black.

Somethings up!!
SP
sparkiestu
Thankyou Re-it-er-ate.

Stu
BB
Big Brother Founding member
Moz posted:
Can anyone with inside knowledge tell us what's happening at the moment with the graphics, as something strange is going on.

You rarely now (if at all, I've not seen it) get the new swishy-slidey graphics with the spinning phones. I presume this was done with a different machine, is it broke?

Also text on the infostrap often just appears now rather than typing across.

Finally the change of the red breaking news banner to the red & black.

Somethings up!!


Exactly. What the heck is going on. Even with what graphics they are using - they're not using them very well. I mean that 'ticker' they've got. Somedays they'll shrink the picture get the strap on but nothing appears. It will just site there for a while before someone realises it's not working. I've also noticed that they have once or twice just plonked the ticker on screen ontop of every other graphic there obscuring bits of text.

It's like my room.... a mess.

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