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US ELECTIONS 2020 Coverage

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DV
dvboy
BBI45 posted:
dvboy posted:
If the BBC had wanted to be clever they could have put the News Channel to air in Final Score with the videoprinter still running underneath.

Last weekend as Boris Johnson was announcing the then forthcoming lockdown, my dad was listening to a football commentary on TalkSport and the commentator announced the breaking news.

I'm not an expert so my assumption could be very wrong, but surely given the length of the newsflash and the fact that it only went out on BBC One, couldn't they have established a feed to Studio E, done the newsflash with the videoprinter staying on screen, and then handed back to Final Score.


It's probably easier to do it full screen at short notice.

Other options would have been to join the News Channel at 17:00 and move Final Score over to BBC Two, or join the News Channel after Final Score, and I reckon they may have done if there hadn't been a scheduled BBC One bulletin followed by regional news.

Last time I remember a news flash on BBC One during a sport programme:
MA
mark Founding member
Despite everyone knowing a call could come at any moment and the fact that the result had been obvious for quite a while, it seemed to take MSNBC by surprise...


MS
msim
Matt Frei joyously closed tonight's channel 4 news signing himself off as from the BBC...
UT
UTVLifer
dvboy posted:
from Jane Hill:




Given that Jane Hill said that they were preparing for a newsflash yesterday, and that they will probably have been rehearsing it. I was surprised at the BBC's response on World & the NC as it seemed that neither James or Jane O'Brien were expecting it.

Sky News' 'calling' sequence was amazing with the AR and dramatic music even if I was disappointed that their US Election music was dropped on Thursday Night going into Friday.
JO
Johnnie
msim posted:
Matt Frei joyously closed tonight's channel 4 news signing himself off as from the BBC...



MA
mark Founding member
A couple more calls...

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CBS
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DV
DVB Cornwall
I presume CNN et al will continue until Biden's address in Election mode. The Sumday Morning news shows will be fascinating.
AJ
AJB39
Johnnie posted:
msim posted:
Matt Frei joyously closed tonight's channel 4 news signing himself off as from the BBC...




Oh dear! How embarrassing!
AN
Andrew Founding member
How ridiculously flat was this, it was as if they were announcing some breaking news that had just come out of the blue, not something they’d be working up to for 4 days

JO
Jon
That video also misses out the awkward long pause where they’re waiting for something to happen.
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LL
London Lite Founding member
Andrew posted:
How ridiculously flat was this, it was as if they were announcing some breaking news that had just come out of the blue, not something they’d be working up to for 4 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVxJJUsdn_Q


That makes Adam Boulton's pedestrian delivery animated in comparison!
BR
Brekkie
Johnnie posted:
msim posted:
Matt Frei joyously closed tonight's channel 4 news signing himself off as from the BBC...




I'm sure they'll forgive him. Was a great move adding him to the C4 News team.

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