SNP Leadership Election: TV Debates
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As I'm sure you're aware, Nicola Sturgeon recently announced that she is standing down as SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland.

There is currently a party leadership election campaign under way - with Kate Forbes, Ash Regan and Humza Yousaf standing as candidates. SNP members will vote between 13th and 27th March, with the results due on 27th March.

Four TV leadership debates have been arranged.  Two have now taken place, with the next two happening next week.  They are:



[*]Scotland's Next First Minister, STV, Tuesday 7th March
[*]Scotland's Next Leader, Channel 4 News, Thursday 8th March
[*]Sky News Leaders' Debate, Sky News, Monday 13th March (Added thanks to Gibsy below!)
[*]Debate Night SNP Leadership Special, BBC ONE Scotland and BBC News Channel, Tuesday 14th March


I've decided to post a few captures (mainly for posterity), and do not intend there to be any political discussion in this thread. 

STV debate (07/03/23):

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Titles 

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Pundits studio (Usually 'Scotland Tonight' studio)

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There is also a Sky News one next week too hosted by Beth Rigby.
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Channel 4 News debate (09/03/23):

Glasgow venue used as a studio

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There were no debate-specific titles or Astons above those normally used for Channel 4 News.

(09-03-2023, 09:51 PM)Gibsy Wrote:  There is also a Sky News one next week too hosted by Beth Rigby.

Thanks for this - I didn't realise Sky were doing one!
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Sky News debate (13/03/23):

Titles

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Venue (Hopetoun House, South Queensferry nr. Edinburgh)

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One-on-One Segment

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Sky News Tonight (13/03/23):

Post debate analysis

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A weirdly-placed #bbcdn DOG (much closer to the left than the top) and lots of visible old BBC Scotland logos on tonight’s BBC1 Scotland ‘Debate Night’ Leadership Special.
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BBC Scotland Debate Night (14/03/23):

A change in format for this final debate - it's essentially a version of Question Time.

Venue (Mansfield Traquair, Edinburgh)

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Titles (normal version)

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The DOG placement makes sense with the BBC logo as shown on the images - which is present on iPlayer, but not broadcast BBC1.

Interesting that they chose to use the Debate Night brand rather than a ‘BBC News Scotland special’ or similar. A good opportunity to cross-promote the programme, normally shown on the BBC Scotland channel, but didn’t feel like as much of an ‘event’ as STV’s (who didn’t just brand theirs Scotland Tonight).
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(14-03-2023, 10:21 PM)LargelyALurker Wrote:  Interesting that they chose to use the Debate Night brand rather than a ‘BBC News Scotland special’ or similar. A good opportunity to cross-promote the programme, normally shown on the BBC Scotland channel, but didn’t feel like as much of an ‘event’ as STV’s (who didn’t just brand theirs Scotland Tonight).

Yes, it did feel like the least expense was gone to by the BBC on these debates.  A bigger audience and fancy venue for Debate Night was welcome though.

I think in terms of effort, branding and extent of coverage, I think it was actually Sky that seems to have pulled out all the stops. The STV debate was a good effort but the studio itself was tiny.  They did get the 'first mover' advantage though - they were first to show the candidates arguing quite pointedly with each other, which has set the tone for a quite a bit of the media coverage.
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(09-03-2023, 09:51 PM)Gibsy Wrote:  There is also a Sky News one next week too hosted by Beth Rigby.

They missed a trick by not calling it a Befferendum………
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For those not yet tired of hearing from these three SNP leadership candidates, LBC held a further debate on Monday night and Times Radio held one tonight.  That must surely be it?!

LBC Debate, Glasgow (20/03/23):

As you'd expect from Global, polished online streaming presentation. Seems likely this came from Global's premises in Glasgow:

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Times Radio debate (21/03/23):

Very little on offer pres-wise, this was streamed on YouTube (as well as radio) from a venue in Edinburgh: 

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