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It was very Blue is my initial thoughts.

And what with the BBC’s graphics being very red, you almost needed sunglasses to watch the update this afternoon.

Andrew post_id=811 time=1617056567 user_id=791 Wrote:It was very Blue is my initial thoughts.

And what with the BBC’s graphics being very red, you almost needed sunglasses to watch the update this afternoon.

I thought the same while watching it on Sky News.
They had their big bright YELLLOW lower thirds graphics on screen, with Boris against the bright BLUE backdrop and a (unneccesary) bright RED graphic on the side of the screen showing tweets from their reporters!

I thought it all looked very nice. Very professional, and much better than just a podium in the State Dining Room. 21st Century media is about image (aside from haircut), so this is probably long overdue.

I don't see the cost as a problem considering what has been spent over the last 12 months on COVID. The 'Situation Room' underneath MOD Main Building over the road cost £125 million, and we don't even get to see that, so £2.6 million on a TV studio isn't a great deal.

Presumably the blue background is because it's a better contrast for skin tones. That's why the White House have always gone with the same.

Fun fact: the original, 2000, Big Brother house was painted blue for that very reason, as were sets in the days of Black & White TV.

Not sure if this is an official briefing room but the backdrop here for the lockdown announcement tonight looks so much better on screen than the result of spending £2.6m at Downing Street - subtlety goes a long way, along with not having a solid colour as a backdrop.

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1377326558428463107

The Prime Minister's Downing St news conference again isn't being carried by BBC Scotland, Wales & NI this afternoon. Whilst again the vast majority of what will be covered will only be relevant to England, the measures announced on international travel will have some relevance to/implications for Scotland, Wales & NI. Although this isn't anything that I'm sure won't be covered extensively on the BBC 1 network bulletins.

I'm wondering if maybe the PM's Covid briefings are not being carried in Scotland & Wales due to the election period rules now in force there? Although this doesn't account for NI not carrying the PM's briefings as NI is not in an election period.

I guess we'll see what happens after the devolved elections as to whether Scotland & Wales start showing the PM's briefings again, but if as is anticipated soon, UK Govt ministers stop taking the Downing St briefings and they are done by Allegra Stratton, there will be even less of a reason for Wales, Scotland & NI to take them.

Radio_man post_id=3077 time=1617635130 user_id=1477 Wrote:The Prime Minister's Downing St news conference again isn't being carried by BBC Scotland, Wales & NI this afternoon. Whilst again the vast majority of what will be covered will only be relevant to England, the measures announced on international travel will have some relevance to/implications for Scotland, Wales & NI. Although this isn't anything that I'm sure won't be covered extensively on the BBC 1 network bulletins.

I'm wondering if maybe the PM's Covid briefings are not being carried in Scotland & Wales due to the election period rules now in force there? Although this doesn't account for NI not carrying the PM's briefings as NI is not in an election period.

I guess we'll see what happens after the devolved elections as to whether Scotland & Wales start showing the PM's briefings again, but if as is anticipated soon, UK Govt ministers stop taking the Downing St briefings and they are done by Allegra Stratton, there will be even less of a reason for Wales, Scotland & NI to take them.

Would the international travel announcement have implications in Scotland, Wales and NI though?

While I know there are differences between the devolved powers to each of the other nations I'm not sure surrounding this exactly.

For example, Scotland has announced quarantine measures for individual countries on a different basis/pace than England earlier in the pandemic while now of course travellers coming to Scotland from anywhere in the world need to pay to quarantine in a hotel.

FrancisC post_id=3090 time=1617636523 user_id=1108 Wrote:

Radio_man post_id=3077 time=1617635130 user_id=1477 Wrote:The Prime Minister's Downing St news conference again isn't being carried by BBC Scotland, Wales & NI this afternoon. Whilst again the vast majority of what will be covered will only be relevant to England, the measures announced on international travel will have some relevance to/implications for Scotland, Wales & NI. Although this isn't anything that I'm sure won't be covered extensively on the BBC 1 network bulletins.

I'm wondering if maybe the PM's Covid briefings are not being carried in Scotland & Wales due to the election period rules now in force there? Although this doesn't account for NI not carrying the PM's briefings as NI is not in an election period.

I guess we'll see what happens after the devolved elections as to whether Scotland & Wales start showing the PM's briefings again, but if as is anticipated soon, UK Govt ministers stop taking the Downing St briefings and they are done by Allegra Stratton, there will be even less of a reason for Wales, Scotland & NI to take them.

Would the international travel announcement have implications in Scotland, Wales and NI though?

While I know there are differences between the devolved powers to each of the other nations I'm not sure surrounding this exactly.

For example, Scotland has announced quarantine measures for individual countries on a different basis/pace than England earlier in the pandemic while now of course travellers coming to Scotland from anywhere in the world need to pay to quarantine in a hotel.

Wales is following England on international travel, as the vast majority of international travellers whose final destination is Wales, arrive in airports in England. I know Scotland has set different rules as you say, I don't know about NI's arrangements.

But seeing as other England only measures are being announced at the briefing, such as the latest England lockdown easing, and the new testing regime in England, the vast majority of the briefing won't apply outside England, so it's the right move for the devolved nations not to take the briefing, especially in their election period.

aaron_scotland post_id=537 time=1617034473 user_id=735 Wrote:stick

I spoke to a sky news engineer whilst at Buckingham Palace Friday and he said there are two feeds: the no.10 feed which goes on the website and archived: this is filmed by two DSLR's which are also relayed to the zoom meeting that the journos are hooked up two. slightly sharper quality if you watch it on the Uk prime minister Facebook. they have their own directors who cut it.

the other feed is the one which is via pool cameras: either itn, sky or bbc - it's on a rotation. I think this is how they're doing it post the new briefing room

There is a Coronavirus Update this afternoon at 5pm, lead by the transport secretary

It'll be interesting in how that slots into the rolling election coverage

Andrew post_id=11179 time=1620374124 user_id=791 Wrote:There is a Coronavirus Update this afternoon at 5pm, lead by the transport secretary

It'll be interesting in how that slots into the rolling election coverage

Ben Brown in the BBC bulletins this morning has been advertising this as happening on the BBC News Channel. Guess it may be like the scientific briefing this morning with the news channel opting out of the election coverage.

It's disappointing to see that BBC 1 Wales, Scotland & NI will be showing the Prime Minister's press conference this afternoon about the next lockdown easing steps in England. I thought that it had been decided to stop showing Covid press conferences that were only applicable to England. Even the description for the BBC News Special on iPlayer this afternoon says: "The latest on the easing of the coronavirus lockdown measures in England". So why show it in NI, Scotland & Wales and confuse viewers then?
Anyone in the nations who wants to know what's happening in England can tune into the News Channel.

The decision to show the PM's press conference this afternoon in Wales, Scotland & NI confirms my suspicion that the UK Govt's Covid press conferences were only dropped from BBC 1 in the devolved nations due to the devolved election period.

I think considering the alert level has dropped across all the home nations today and in Wales at least we're currently aligned with the English rules more than we have been at any point over the last year it's probably fair enough. Worth remembering too that actual briefing is only about a third of the 90 minute bulletin - whilst I suspect the journalists will be misusing their questions to get some sound bites on Scottish Independence too.

something I noticed from yesterday's presser that was different from previously, is that although BBC and Sky both used same cameras, there was a different mix. Guess it's not just one pool feed now, rather broadcasters can cut their own mixes.

There is still a separate rig and output for/through Downing Street's official social channels, however. They are shot on DSLRs

joshuanesbit post_id=11973 time=1620757586 user_id=1556 Wrote:something I noticed from yesterday's presser that was different from previously, is that although BBC and Sky both used same cameras, there was a different mix. Guess it's not just one pool feed now, rather broadcasters can cut their own mixes.

That's always been the case, no?