RT
In a perfect world.
I was just pondering whether the "there will be no election" report at the top of hour on News 24 by a female reporter (name slips my mind) was pretty much pre-made for the event, like an obit, or done since the news broke. Both quite possible.
rts
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gilsta posted:
Surely the Beeb's mistake here was a lack of preperation by not having a spare ear-piece and rifle-mic ready for Andrew when he emerged. It should have been fairly obvious he would be going straight to air.
In a perfect world.
I was just pondering whether the "there will be no election" report at the top of hour on News 24 by a female reporter (name slips my mind) was pretty much pre-made for the event, like an obit, or done since the news broke. Both quite possible.
DA
Did Rachel or Tim stay on with the other one from an earlier shift to cover this or were they brought in to cover? They don't usually have two presenters at that time.
Tim was on this morning so i assume he stayed.
Davidjb
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Moz posted:
looknorth posted:
with the return of rachel scofield it could be possible she will replace joanna goslings meternity leave.
Did Rachel or Tim stay on with the other one from an earlier shift to cover this or were they brought in to cover? They don't usually have two presenters at that time.
Tim was on this morning so i assume he stayed.
EY
Since about last week.
http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/nz/images/bbcworld/presenters/peter/TV2007100100595800.jpg
Moz posted:
Good God I just turned on News 24 to see the Dobster. Haven't seen him since he left 24. How long has he had the all over grade 0!!!? Looks like a thug!
Since about last week.
http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/nz/images/bbcworld/presenters/peter/TV2007100100595800.jpg
NE
Presentation, Delivery, Style, Pronunciation, Clarity, Intonation...
All spot on. Peter Dobbie is one of the best and most definately under-used...still missed from News 24! It's been a while since that trademark grin has been aired on News 24 for us UK folk, nice to see him on this morning for the World News.
All spot on. Peter Dobbie is one of the best and most definately under-used...still missed from News 24! It's been a while since that trademark grin has been aired on News 24 for us UK folk, nice to see him on this morning for the World News.
GE
thegeek
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Has the countdown been seen at all this weekend? I've just realised that a few top of the hours I've seen have gone straight from trail to studio. It worked fine on yesterday's 12 o'clock, when it was a BBC One simulcast, so began with titles, but looks a little odd when the first thing to pop up is a presenter.
GE
Ah yes, the pitfalls of making your countdowns personality-based.
I believe this is one of the reasons why the Drop the Dead Donkey-style Sky News titles was full of actors.
thegeek
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News24 posted:
No countdowns at all today. May well have something to do with a certain presenter who requires removal...
I believe this is one of the reasons why the Drop the Dead Donkey-style Sky News titles was full of actors.
NG
You are making lots of assumptions there.
1. That the facilities at Downing Street allow for this - they don't always send trucks to that position, and instead often just plug into a wallbox (which may have only a single mic and earpiece connection) and that is all the camera crew will have with them.
2. That there was any degree of warning that Andrew Marr was going to be called in for the interviw. I suspect that the BBC were far more concerned with getting cameras INSIDE Number 10 to record the interview Gordon Brown was about to give than arranging for a separate live facility for afterwards.
In hindsight the best solution would have been to ensure that the rifle mic was able to be picked up, and to then have allowed the Downing Street correspondent to have talked to Andrew rather than the studio... Would have looked much neater, have required no major technical changes, and the Downing St Corr would have had been perfectly capable of interviewing Andrew.
noggin
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gilsta posted:
Surely the Beeb's mistake here was a lack of preperation by not having a spare ear-piece and rifle-mic ready for Andrew when he emerged. It should have been fairly obvious he would be going straight to air.
You are making lots of assumptions there.
1. That the facilities at Downing Street allow for this - they don't always send trucks to that position, and instead often just plug into a wallbox (which may have only a single mic and earpiece connection) and that is all the camera crew will have with them.
2. That there was any degree of warning that Andrew Marr was going to be called in for the interviw. I suspect that the BBC were far more concerned with getting cameras INSIDE Number 10 to record the interview Gordon Brown was about to give than arranging for a separate live facility for afterwards.
In hindsight the best solution would have been to ensure that the rifle mic was able to be picked up, and to then have allowed the Downing Street correspondent to have talked to Andrew rather than the studio... Would have looked much neater, have required no major technical changes, and the Downing St Corr would have had been perfectly capable of interviewing Andrew.
MA
What an extraordinary thing to say. Brown never actually said he was thinking about a snap election, this whole 'story' seems just that, media speculation and hype, the whole thing was a non event from the start.
rts posted:
[ With something this big, I think it adds to the flavour of the breaking news. What you are seeing is news in action, getting you, the viewer, the information as soon as possible, not wasting time to make everything look beautiful and picture perfect. You simply cannot do that with big stories like this on rolling news channels. Ok, not as big as 9/11 or 7/7, but still a very significant story.
What an extraordinary thing to say. Brown never actually said he was thinking about a snap election, this whole 'story' seems just that, media speculation and hype, the whole thing was a non event from the start.