My god could you steel the images any quicker, I've heard of websnatching but sheesh that's only been about half an hour it took you to take that enlarge it and upload it!
My god could you steel the images any quicker, I've heard of websnatching but sheesh that's only been about half an hour it took you to take that enlarge it and upload it!
I beg your pardon!!
That's a capture I made this evening -- thank you very much! Would you mind comparing them -- both in size and quality. Mine is bigger, and yours is better quality. I have the original on my hard drive as well with black bars top and bottom if you want to see it.
Apology, whenever you like.
EDIT: And here's a couple of them. My tv card doesn't have the right cable, so you'll notice lines across the images. I don't take kindly to your accusation, mister I've been here a lot longer than you and I *always* credit where I get images from..
Scottish TV’s flagship news programme Scotland Today is getting a new look for the New Year. The programme will launch with a new set, new titles and re-orchestrated title music on Monday 6th January.
The new look follows extensive market research conducted by the company over the past three months.
Viewers throughout central Scotland were asked what they thought of news programmes and they were polled on what they wanted to see in their nightly news.
The opinion polling and focus group work found most viewers trusted and liked Scottish TV news. Scotland Today presenters were the best known in Scotland and were rated for their friendly and approachable style.
The polling work has now informed the changes being made from Monday 6 January.
Scotland Today gets a new set, where the traditional news desk is being replaced by a news bench and table. Well known faces like Shereen Nanjiani, John Mackay and Sarah Heaney will now present some of the main news stories standing up, while when they sit the barrier of the desk between them and the viewers is being removed.
The programme is also set to benefit from further investment in new technology to allow more live reporting and live interviews – enabling presenters to tackle the big issues that matter to Scottish viewers.
The re-launch is being backed up with newspaper advertising and extensive TV promotions, with the marketing message, ‘Scotland Today – it’s your news’.
Scottish TV is also launching a new daytime news and features programme – ‘The Afternoon Edition of Scotland Today’. The programme will be presented by Angus Simpson, Louise White, Stephen Jardine and Sarah Heaney. It will take all the best elements of the lunchtime Scotland Today and will introduce a new live daily debate – asking viewers to phone, e-mail and text Scotland Today with their views on the day’s big talking point.
And as it’s an election year politics and current affairs programming are also getting a fresh look.
Scotland’s only Sunday current affairs programme Seven Days moves to a new regular weekly slot of 12.30. The first programme of the New Year on January 5th will see First Minister Jack McConnell in his first major TV interview of the election year. Stephen Jardine will be interviewing Mr McConnell on the key issues of the forthcoming election campaign.
Later that week, on Thursday 9 January Scottish TV’s flagship politics programme Platform with Bernard Ponsonby returns for a new series in the run up to the Scottish Parliament elections.
Paul McKinney, Head of News and Current Affairs said:
“2003 will be an important year for Scotland. The changes we’re making in our news and current affairs programmes will allow Scottish TV to be first with all of the big news and political stories in the coming 12 months.
“We’ve listened to what our viewers want from their Scottish news. We know they value and trust our news programmes, but we also know they expect us to change with the times and to adopt new and innovative ways of reporting the news.
“We believe the changes we’re making to our set and titles will attract new viewers while retaining the loyal viewers who already tune in every night to find out what’s happening in Scotland.
“Our message is a simple one – you get Scottish news first on Scottish TV. We’re saying to all our viewers that Scotland Today is your news.
“After thirty years of reporting all of the big Scottish news stories, Scotland Today enters another year stronger and more committed than ever to bringing viewers all of the Scottish news that matters to them.
“Our awarding winning team of journalists will be at all the important stories of 2003 – and now we’ll have a new set and new look to allow us to report the news in an accessible and relevant manner.”
In addition Sandy Ross, Managing Director of Scottish Television said,
"2003 is the first year of the operation of the new Nations and Regions Charter which will guarantee the quality of regional programmes. This major investment in our news service both on and off screen is one of the first benefits of the Charter for our viewers. Our news is our most important regional programme and we intend to make sure it is the best service we can offer."
I suppose SMG are to be commended for keeping the lunchtime Scotland Today going strong especially when LNN have let London Today go and Tyne Tees have now dropped North East Today .
On the night-time thing, perhaps they might just use the four squares with no station name? UTV are using them in a big way now on their trailers, we have an animation reading "New for 2003" with the four squares below that preceeding each trailer.
Trailer endboards will probably be modified versions of the network endboards - just like UTV.
According to the press release, the network idents will also be used alongside these regional ones - again just like UTV. SMG's regional idents look far classier than UTV's - rather than use a cheaper copy of the (bizzare) national set, they have their own set with their own corporate colours.
P.S. Will the Scottish / Grampian logos now be just the station name bit or will the full square be used for off-air purposes. Certainly only the bottom bit with the station name seems to be going to be used on-air.
SMG have been using the network trialer endboard since October. They've had no logo on them at all. Same with the Next, Then, Later at the end of prime time programmes. No logo, not even squares, not even our own announcer. It's always been the network one. We also have the New for 2003 trailers with no logo or squares.
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I wonder what the through the night presentation on STV & Grampian will be like. Under the boxed look there was no station name in the square - with "night-time" being the brand.
There could be the possibility of an SMG ident being shown.
I had noticed that during the Hogmany Party broadcast SMG logos were attached to the mikes, however didn't catch the endcap to see if it was shown there. I was a bit suprised as SMG logo is usually for network shows - SMG TV and not local broadcasting.
Before GMTV, Scottish let through a new style promo with the Scottish tv logo on it, for Goldeneye, before showing their last SMG ident -- which was the washing line/logs one.
Yip that was the last STV ident the same one went out on Grampian just before GMTV.
And at 9.25 before Trisha there was no celebrity promo just the new look STV ident with Shereen Nangiani and the Grampian one was of Sarah Mack .
Looks like they will probably use the idents with the local celebs to start the day.
The music sting is much more chilled out than the ITV 1 stings which are very in your face .They look realy great however no refrence from announcer Jim Symon on the new look business as usual .
