Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36083100)

The one difference, and a fairly important one, that I did notice was that GB news reported on the lockdown protest today in London, whereas I haven’t seen Sky or BBC report on it. They might have, I don’t watch news 24/7, but I doubt it.

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36083101)

C4 News seem to be broadcasting from the centre of a noisy protest outside Downing St. , so it's hardly being hidden !

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36083101)

C4 News seem to be broadcasting from the centre of a noisy protest outside Downing St. , so it's hardly being hidden !

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36083102)

Reporting or giving a one sided biased opinion?

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36083101)

C4 News seem to be broadcasting from the centre of a noisy protest outside Downing St. , so it's hardly being hidden !

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36083107)

Reporting. If you want one side biased opinions then do stick to the Express/GB News.

Closed minds are very much on the cranky hysterical right these days. Another Americanisation invading our Country. I blame Trump, Fox and UFOs playing with our brain waves. ;)

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36082924)

The technical problems will be fixed in time. Not a huge statement on the future of the channel, it'll be if they can find an audience for an opinion led TV channel.

The other thing they need to fix is the lighting and camera set-up. I watched a bit of their morning show which has four main presenters but they've chosen to frame the entire desk in shot throughout the show, rather than cutting to close-ups of the current speaker, so they look oddly distant from the camera. The lighting is very dark as well.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36083055)

Ouch!

In a way it reminds me of the launch of Today in the mid 1980s. Made much, pre-launch, of the fact that it would substantially be printed in full colour, but when it came to it, most pages were slightly off-register (the four colour plates weren’t aligned properly, so the pictures looked muddy, with colourful haloes around the edges). Sometimes they were dreadfully misaligned. Correctly lining up the CMYK plates prior to rolling the printing press is basic stuff, but at launch they simply hadn’t managed to hire anyone good enough to get it bang on, first time, every time, under the pressure of daily newspaper deadlines.

Some of the stuff GBN is getting wrong at the moment is the sort of thing that a competent crew from a small production company would spot, correct and re-take, if they were out making a corporate video. The problem GBN has is it’s making its mistakes live on air. The lighting, costuming and audio shortcomings should be remedied within a few days, even if, as seems to be the case, they’ve been unable to attract hires with substantial experience of producing live news. If you can’t spot these sorts of mistakes and you don’t know how to correct them, you really shouldn’t be working with TV cameras in any context whatsoever.

The editorial direction is another matter entirely. This is obviously where all the money has been spent so you would hope they’d know what they’re doing. That remains to be seen.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36083142)

Don’t suppose you remember the slightly psychedelic sketch Spitting Image did, with Eddie Shah surrounded by shimmering kaleidoscope effects and insisting everything looked perfectly fine? :D