BBC News 24

For those aroused by such minutiae: the generic "BBC NEWS" Tower was still in use through the 1000-1100 hour. Surprised no-one in the gallery noticed. Actually, I take that back - with the number of graphics cock-ups that occur on N24, I shouldn't be surprised.

During Breakfast this morning, they had a poll on climate change, the results of which were displayed which two 3D bar charts. The results showed that 82% of people believed that we should make more personal sacrifices to reduce the effects of global warming, while the remaining 18% thought that we should rely exclusively on future scientific developments to help us to manage climate change, and these results were referenced verbally. Unfortunate that the graphic got the results the wrong way round, suggesting that 82% of people believed that we personally should do nothing about climate change.

The number of graphical errors on N24 really is astonishing. I'll admit that that kind of full-screen graphic error is mercifully rare, but there is at least one cock-up per hour with the TOG graphics, whether it's the ticker randomly disappearing, the Tower animating off- and on-screen repeatedly, or text hanging off the left edge of the information line on the main super. Considering the system is now two years old, you'd think they'd have got used to it by now.

I personally thought he was all right though admittedly, I have seen very few of his bulletins so perhaps he would have got a little more annyoing over time.



She is off on maternity leave but I would expect her to return soon.

Also, I wonder if the N24 clock will breakdown because of the leap second at midnight.

I'd always thought the tower animating on and off was intentional. Sometimes there are reports where important parts of the picture are blocked out by the tower - so it gets animated out.

Mind you, there's often a timelag between the "important part" being blocked out and the tower being faded...meaning that the tactic falls flat on its face.

Now, you see that I can understand - although I find it incredibly irritating when the Tower has to be animated off in order to accommodate graphics behind it that have been designed without consideration for the existing graphics furniture. But all too often, all of the graphics will animate off-screen, and then come back on - sometimes in the middle of the presenter's studio intro to a story. Frequently too, the main headline/info supers will animate off- and on-screen apparently at random.

It's this kind of nonsense that I tire of.

A BBC News summary before casualty on BBC One was presented from part of the N24 studio (well i think so!) instead of the bbc news on one studio. Has this ever been done before?

Yes, but only a few times. Darren has done so before and so has Matthew Amroliwala, Fiona Bruce and Philip Hayton.

These things disrupt the flow - Can't the gallery playout a long video report on N24 while the studio is being used for these 'extra' BBC ONE bulletins?

Sophie Raworth as well... what happened on N24 while this report happened?

It was on N24 as well.



Doubt it.

That would really be stressful on the staff I guess. Moreover does the BBC has to do such things when they have other studios to use?

I just don't think it's technically possible. There are other studios of course, but they require staff to operate them.

The 11:30pm bulletin is also from N24, and they did one for BBC ONE Scotland at 10:30pm.

I hate to start 2006 by whinging, but why in God's name is News 24 carrying this twaddle with a mindreader?