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(17-02-2023, 07:44 PM)NickyBoy Wrote: (16-02-2023, 11:54 AM)Radio_man Wrote: Yes, Huw would've likely had to get the train to London and then fly from London if he was flying to Edinburgh yesterday. Literally it was a case of him being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I don't see why Reeta couldn't have done the 6 and 10. But then I also don't see why Huw, Reeta and Chris Mason all needed to be sent to Holyrood anyway. I don't personally see what presenting from outside a darkened Scottish Parliament in the dark added to the bulletin when they have a fantastic studio in NBH to do the bulletin from.
From what they said on 5 Live breakfast yesterday, Chris Mason was on holiday in Edinburgh with his family, when the story broke and they asked him to break into his time off to help cover it.
That’s almost like he’d heard speculation, so he had to trick his family to going there on his weeks holiday!
A nice place to visit by all accounts, but more of a weekend break thing rather than being there in the middle of the week.
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His tweets suggest he was in the Yorkshire Dales rather than happily being on the spot.
I wonder what the practicalities of that are, is a journalist of his seniority expected to take a suit on holiday in case something like this happens?
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(17-02-2023, 08:11 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: His tweets suggest he was in the Yorkshire Dales rather than happily being on the spot.
I wonder what the practicalities of that are, is a journalist of his seniority expected to take a suit on holiday in case something like this happens?
The North and Scotland having, famously, zero shops that sell suits...
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(17-02-2023, 08:11 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: His tweets suggest he was in the Yorkshire Dales rather than happily being on the spot.
I wonder what the practicalities of that are, is a journalist of his seniority expected to take a suit on holiday in case something like this happens?
You're right, he mentions going up on the Settle - Carlisle line on this twitter thread.
https://twitter.com/ChrisMasonBBC/status/1625863826355658754
He also mentions that he had taken a suit with him, just in case he was needed.
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Note to self: read the thread
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(17-02-2023, 07:56 PM)Jon Wrote: (17-02-2023, 07:44 PM)NickyBoy Wrote: From what they said on 5 Live breakfast yesterday, Chris Mason was on holiday in Edinburgh with his family, when the story broke and they asked him to break into his time off to help cover it.
A nice place to visit by all accounts, but more of a weekend break thing rather than being there in the middle of the week.
I'm afraid I've got to respectfully disagree there. Stayed in Edinburgh for a whole week, and could have happily stayed for another week afterwards.
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(17-02-2023, 11:21 PM)chris Wrote: There used to be “latest ” in the old days - even as late as the 2008 rebrand. It seemed to fall out of favour, leading to everything branded as “Breaking”.
If my ruined memory serves, I
think there were two early variants of 'latest'-type straps: 'News Update'; and 'Latest Pictures'. I'm sure I remember 'News Update' being used during the time of the red-and-ivory-era purple astons/lower-thirds on News 24, as well during the
SUPER-CHONKY red-and-black generation (the ones that used the hideous Gill Sans Ultra Bold font - 2002ish?). I believe that was also around the time that 'Latest Pictures' straps started to appear on both channels.
Both variants continued to be used sporadically through to the 2008 rebrand after which, as you rightly say, all updates to rolling news stories came to be known simply as 'Breaking'.
As far as I recall, I don't think 'Latest' (on its own) was used on any previous generation of News (24)/World lower-thirds. However, my memory is largely made of dust, so it's quite possible that I'm completely wrong about everything I've just said.
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(18-02-2023, 12:26 AM)LDN Wrote: (17-02-2023, 11:21 PM)chris Wrote: There used to be “latest ” in the old days - even as late as the 2008 rebrand. It seemed to fall out of favour, leading to everything branded as “Breaking”.
If my ruined memory serves, I think there were two early variants of 'latest'-type straps: 'News Update'; and 'Latest Pictures'. I'm sure I remember 'News Update' being used during the time of the red-and-ivory-era purple astons/lower-thirds on News 24, as well during the SUPER-CHONKY red-and-black generation (the ones that used the hideous Gill Sans Ultra Bold font - 2002ish?). I believe that was also around the time that 'Latest Pictures' straps started to appear on both channels.
Both variants continued to be used sporadically through to the 2008 rebrand after which, as you rightly say, all updates to rolling news stories came to be known simply as 'Breaking'.
As far as I recall, I don't think 'Latest' (on its own) was used on any previous generation of News (24)/World lower-thirds. However, my memory is largely made of dust, so it's quite possible that I'm completely wrong about everything I've just said.
There was a LATEST NEWS strap and aston which was used post 2008. It was red text on a white background (rather than the Breaking News one which was white text on a red background). It was only really used to update on an existing story, but hardly ever appeared.
The ITV News channel used to use 'Latest News' quite a bit, around the time Deborah Turness was there.
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LDN wins the Internet with the brilliant use of SUPER CHONKY in that style! It’s nearing BIG MOIRA proportions, as was back in the TV Forum days.