05-04-2023, 10:01 AM
(05-04-2023, 09:40 AM)JamesG Wrote: With Sturgeon’s husband being arrested, are we about to see the broom cupboard of breaking news swing into action?
Hopefully better than how the main channel is covering it?
This is probably their first proper test of 'unexpected' domestic Breaking News on the new channel since Monday and its been handled pretty poorly. You'd expect a political correspondent to come on air, some decent B-roll footage or a still photograph to appear, allowing the presenter to dip out of vision.
They did run some B-roll, mainly featuring Nicola Sturgeon but the clip was so short it kept stopping, going back to the studio catching Samantha Simmonds out. There was also some very, very bizarre language being used 'the media won't be able to talk too much about this' and 'viewers watching might be wondering why we're covering this?'.
They did get a Scotland Correspondent on the phone, not Zoom, the phone and they basically re-read out what Samantha had just said.
It wasn't terrible, but they've certainly handled breaking news of this nature much more seamlessly previously.