Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

Think he's lost 10m viewers since his March one.

Everything had already been said in the Commons, I'm not surprised.

As is American sign languge ....

I know we don’t do presenter rotas any more but I think is notable to mention that the first episode of the new series of Coronavirus Update is Jane Hill today who didn’t generally host the last series

New series? Is this now back to being a daily event?

After all this time, the people in charge of the on screen graphics are still seemingly surprised when the full screen charts appear, with captions animating on and off all over the place

Weekly, I think.

Spotted this on Twitter, thought this was quite good, considering last night's conference doesn't seem to have added anything of interest to the issue at hand, and Virgin Media's search-and-scan banner summed it up perfectly:

They’ve got that right...#coronavirusbriefing pic.twitter.com/KbuEXUNiO4

— Jack O'Neill (@MrJack_ONeill) September 30, 2020

The perils of having a TV system/ EPG platform that can't update in real time it would appear

I bet the same people saying it was ‘pointless’ were the same people complaining when the daily ones were withdrawn and complaining that he didn’t do last Monday but then at the same time boasting that they never watched them anyway!

That’s how Twitter works of course

Twitter is of course an authoritative figure on anything and everything these days, it would appear. The poor man's vox pops.

ITV News has just spent more time talking about rumours of restrictions that might be brought in in Northern England than the news that restrictions actually are being brought in in Scotland

Based on previous situations, I wouldn’t be surprised if the BBC News did the same

Is it because Scotland News isn’t important enough, or is it because juicy gossip to rile everybody up is more important than actual facts?

I wasn't timing it to the second but think that is an unfair accusation - they led with the Scotland story with a report and live then followed it up with a report and live for the possible restrictions across the North of England, which ultimately would affect more people.