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(December 2007)

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HA
harshy Founding member
the eye posted:
Stitch08 posted:
Liam Dutton on BBC Breakfast this morning, his first time on BBC One I think, aside from the regional forecasts.


He does forecasts on BBC World.


BBC World is normally the place to see any new weather presenters, then they usually make it to domestic output.
JR
jrothwell97
Incidentally, Channel 4 now seems to have adopted BBC-style 'flying blue blobs' graphics for their weather, although they've managed to make the landmass green, which looks nicer IMO.
DA
David
There was a breakdown when they went over to the weather on Countryfile today.

See this thread for IPlayer link and grabs.

12 days later

NA
nat210790
Just stumbled across this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viy0t94-Nr4

Smile
JO
Joe
nat210790 posted:
Just stumbled across this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viy0t94-Nr4

Smile


Well it's clearly a fake, just in case anyone hadn't realised. [/captainobvious]

8 days later

RE
Revitt
Is Alex a comedian in his spare time?

"So as we LEAP into Friday" Rolling Eyes

14 days later

LO
Londoner
Met Office press release
Quote:
Carol crowned 'queen of weather presenters'

Carol Kirkwood has been named the UK's best TV weather presenter by the prestigious Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC).

The awards which are held annually reward excellence in the broadcasting world and this is not the first time Carol has been named the best TV weather presenter. In 2003 she won the inaugural award.

Carol joined the Met Office weather team at the BBC in 1998. For the last 7 years she has been brightening our mornings as the regular weather presenter on BBC Breakfast, as well as working on BBC News 24 and BBC One.

Carol said: "I'm absolutely delighted to have won this award for the second time. As far as I know the TRIC awards are alone in recognising the work of weather presenters and to be honoured when I have so many terrific colleagues doing excellent jobs is a source of great pride."

8 days later

DV
DVB Cornwall
The Weather Show ......
Occasional filler programme ...

Good idea but is it me? Is this becoming a 'oooh arn't we clever with all our gizmos and gadgets' programme rather than a factual digest of weather matters?

Like the idea, but perhaps some tightening of editorial values might not go amiss.
GR
gregmc
DVB Cornwall posted:
The Weather Show ......
Occasional filler programme ...

Good idea but is it me? Is this becoming a 'oooh arn't we clever with all our gizmos and gadgets' programme rather than a factual digest of weather matters?

Like the idea, but perhaps some tightening of editorial values might not go amiss.


Chris Long from BBC Click production is behind it. Hence the regular appearances of Spencer Kelly. Its put together quite shoddily, but not a bad filler programme. Seen worse!

Spencer Kelly plays with the graphics system:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q7g85SiVteA
MA
Martin Founding member
gregmc posted:
DVB Cornwall posted:
The Weather Show ......
Occasional filler programme ...

Good idea but is it me? Is this becoming a 'oooh arn't we clever with all our gizmos and gadgets' programme rather than a factual digest of weather matters?

Like the idea, but perhaps some tightening of editorial values might not go amiss.


Chris Long from BBC Click production is behind it. Hence the regular appearances of Spencer Kelly. Its put together quite shoddily, but not a bad filler programme. Seen worse!

Spencer Kelly plays with the graphics system:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q7g85SiVteA


Did anyone else see the big blob of solid black that was keyed in to make it look like the 'light in a jar' had gone out?

You can't tell from the YouTube clip because it has been compressed but watching it on telly, it stands out a mile!
SC
scottishtv Founding member
I've noticed they put the weather on the iPlayer these days, but it's a bit hit and miss as to whether it's up to date or not (esp at weekends). Strikes me as a bit odd - couldn't they just keep it on the news website, or via red button on interactive?

Also, I thought it was a little strange for them to use the generic BBC ident to preceed it on iPlayer. I think it's the only 'programme' to use it - as the bulletin is obviously able to be broadcast across many BBC channels. Why would they not just have used the generic sting which BBC weather uses online/interactive? (the BBC News theme over a little BBC Weather animation).

Just some thoughts.
ST
steveboswell
scottishtv posted:
I've noticed they put the weather on the iPlayer these days...

Also, I thought it was a little strange for them to use the generic BBC ident to preceed it on iPlayer... Why would they not just have used the generic sting which BBC weather uses online/interactive?


You're right, it definitely seems strange to keep a day-old weather forecast on the iPlayer when the weather site (and BBCi) has a forecast updated regularly throughout the day. Perhaps when the iPlayer becomes more integrated into the News and Sport sites, Weather will follow suit and just use the embedded video player for forecasts (rather than RealPlayer).

As for the Weather "ident", yes it does seem strange that they're using the BBC generic version: personally, I don't see why they need an ident for the weather - the News gets on fine without one - especially as it tends to drag on a bit, too!

Bozz

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