07-04-2023, 05:50 PM
Simple things like this... The headline text position is not the same in these. (You may need to open each in a new tab and swap between to see what I mean)
(07-04-2023, 05:16 PM)ALV Wrote: It seems the ditching of the ticker is intentional rather than caused by technical problems. Looks like the ticker will not return as implied by this tweet:Well I can read the website address and time easily on my phone screen from this picture, even though this JPEG example is less than a 1/5th of my phone screen in size. So this argument doesn't hold. But to waste/cover up all that picture with a white banner showing nothing useful is unforgivable. The time, website & BBC News logo should all be on one line if there's going to be no flipper. I do feel though a rolling news channel without a ticker/flipper is also unforgivable.
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(07-04-2023, 06:17 PM)DTV Wrote: I expect it's somewhat a post hoc rationalisation for the fact that they have 'streamlined' the on-screen graphics operation, i.e., made people redundant. Does it really hold up, no - but it doesn't actually need to, it's just a bland PR answer that sounds better than 'we have no money'. I would imagine that if you asked why presenters are now operating their own Autocues, somebody would answer that it's about 'giving the presenter control over how the story is told'.I do think it’s mad that the cuts have been made to such an extent that they can no longer afford to run a ticker! (Okay, I know it’s not quite that simple, but it’s certainly a pithy illustration of said cuts).
(07-04-2023, 06:31 PM)Radio_man Wrote: He's also described the prospect of us watching a radio phone-in on the TV as "very compelling"
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(07-04-2023, 06:32 PM)Kojak Wrote: What was wrong with having an automated ticker? I know the headlines on it were generally a bit dodgy, but that could have been easily rectified - just scrape the first paragraph from each article on the website, rather than the headlines.Certainly, there must be a way of giving each web article an alt-headline that works for the ticker and then have the ticker automatically cycle through the ones on the home page. No need to actually involve anyone, you could even bulk it up with automated things like market data, etc.
(07-04-2023, 06:32 PM)Kojak Wrote: What was wrong with having an automated ticker? I know the headlines on it were generally a bit dodgy, but that could have been easily rectified - just scrape the first paragraph from each article on the website, rather than the headlines.
(07-04-2023, 06:32 PM)Kojak Wrote: What was wrong with having an automated ticker? I know the headlines on it were generally a bit dodgy, but that could have been easily rectified - just scrape the first paragraph from each article on the website, rather than the headlines.