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Overly used phrases used by journalists (January 2004)

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Phileas Fogg posted:

What was Cliff Michelmore's closing line from "Tonight"?


"That's it for tonight, our next 'Tonight' tomorrow night. Until then, goodnight"
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Steve D
How about good old Michael Barratt's:

"....that's all after your own news from your own region, when we go Nationwide."
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Katherine posted:
Two that annoy me:

Arrow 'The top of the hour'. A hellish spawn followed latewr by some news channels referring to half past the hour as the 'bottom of the hour'! What a stunning example of innovative imagination!


"Top of the hour" is used by the likes of CNN and Sky to get round the problem of having viewers in different time zones...but I agree...it sounds like something Tony Blackburn said in 1964 on piratre radio!
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BBC TV Centre
In a BBC report about the power cut...

Arrow "The BBC fell off air earlier this evening...."

Hmm....the BBC falling off air. It must have hurt! Laughing
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rts Founding member
Another one I like is Laura Norder.

(Law and order)
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Nick Harvey Founding member
chinajan posted:
"That's it for tonight, our next 'Tonight' tomorrow night. Until then, goodnight"

Wales has also had various phrases based on that one, over the years.

Things along the lines of "So that's Wales Today, more of Wales tomorrow".

Phileas Fogg posted:
Famous closing lines:
"That's our broadcast for tonight." (ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings)

Was it Peter who also used to use one of my personal favourites as well?
"That's part of our world tonight."
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Turnbull and Williams
Phileas Fogg posted:
Famous closing lines:

"And that's the way it is." (CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite)
"Goodnight!" **giant smile** (CBC National News with Knowlton Nash)
"Thanks for watching." **disinterested scowl** (CBC National News with Peter Mansbridge)
"And that's the kind of day it's been." **vacant gaze** (CTV National News with Lloyd Robertson)
"From all of us here at NBC News, goodnight." (NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw)
"That's our broadcast for tonight." (ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings)


And don't forget:

"That's the weather....for now"

from the one and only Mr Daniel Corbett!
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mark posted:
What they say...
"Fred Bloggs has been watching the story"

What they mean...
"We're too cheap to actually send a reporter out to cover this, so here's a report cobbled together from a bit of file footage by someone sitting at a desk in London."


Argh yes something about ITV News that annoys me... they say ''So and so has been following events''. Biggest offenders include Gary Cotterill, Emma Kennedy, Dan Rivers, Philip Raey-Smith and Catherine Jacob.
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Square Eyes Founding member
"Now it's over to ___ , ____ & _____ for news from your particular part of the Calendar region"
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tvyvr4derek Founding member
Nick Harvey posted:
Was it Peter who also used to use one of my personal favourites as well?
"That's part of our world tonight."

I think that's Dan Rather, and I think he still says that.
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My all-time favourite news sign-off was used by Walter Cronkite in the States - "And that's the way it is...."

Not really a news sign-off, but at the end of Time & Again (a modern-history documentary series based around archive clips) on MSNBC, Jane Pauley used to say : "That was Time & Again... and we're history"

And John Craven *nearly* always used to sign off from Newsround with the same words spoken with the same inflection and rhythm : "And that's all from Newsround today, we'll be back at the same time tomorrow. Until then, goodbye" (diddley-diddley-dum - diddleydiddleydiddleydiddley-DUM!)
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Martin2k5
"Stay with us" - ITV News Channel before every break!

Martin

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