News channel continuing to carry coverage of the Eviction of Protestors from St Paul's Cathedral at 1am.
Really long day for Tim!
Interesting that SKY are not carry this except for some mobile footage for a couple of minutes and then back to other news and they also took CBS News at 12:30am.
World News and the News channel simulcasting for the St Paul's Eviction coverage.
I notice the difference in the World and News channel Astons, World going for 'London Occupy Eviction' and the News channel going for 'St Paul's Eviction'.
Now everything has been passed to Babita Sharma for the rest of the night with "We now welcome viewers from the BBC News Channel as well as BBC world".
I honestly didn't think this would be such a big story for world to be covering, I expected it to be mentioned in the world ad breaks when we get UK news.
BBC miles ahead with live coverage with Jeremy Cooke who has covered story from beginning. When I last flicked over to Sky News, they were reporting on press ethics, and a few minutes before that, some non-live, bad quality footage from scene, with bad quality sound as well.
Just yellow breaking news on Sky. Jannat Jalil on overnights on Sky this morning.
BBC miles ahead with live coverage with Jeremy Cooke who has covered story from beginning. When I last flicked over to Sky News, they were reporting on press ethics, and a few minutes before that, some non-live, bad quality footage from scene, with bad quality sound as well.
Just yellow breaking news on Sky. Jannat Jalil on overnights on Sky this morning.
Sky News seem to have been caught unawares, or clearly don't have any reporters or camera teams available.
The helicopter shot as it circled around the Olympic rings on the Thames today was nice, I thought. Well, it is a welcome change from being appalled by the revelations emerging from Leveson.
I suspect it was a simple cock-up. Perhaps the running order was re-jigged, and when the captions got moved around, something got missed, and the wrong aston ended up in the wrong place, and with the wrong template.
Why are there two different versions of essentially the same super on the same system? I always assumed that the Regions and Nations had graphics that were slightly different (principally in the kerning, leading and size of the text) because they were using different (more limited? inferior?) equipment to the Television Centre studios - but this suggests that there are actually two distinct designs, and I'm a little unclear as to why.
Why shouldn't BBC London or any other region have the same-size typeface and identical character and line spacing as the National, NC and World News? I thought the point of the 2008 revamp was to introduce maximum commonality to BBC News output wherever practical, and to only offer distinctiveness through local branding.
The two different main super designs seems like a bit of an arbitrary distinction - the kind of thing that most people won't notice, but which somebody at some point must have had a reason to put into effect. I'm just completely at a loss to understand what that reason is at the moment.
