New BBC News 24 DOG
 

BBC News 24's "red square" DOG seems to have disappeared at some point
today, to be replaced with a rather poorly done standard "white text in
the top left corner" affair.

Pics:

http://homepage.mac.com/mwongozi/things/news24dog1.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/mwongozi/things/news24dog2.jpg

Thoughts:
- There's no clock anymore.
- It's rather poorly done. The white text has a few black pixels around
it, which shows up more clearly against a bright background, as on the
second picture above.
- The other on-screen graphics, like the captions and the "live"
sticker, are still placed around where the red square DOG used to be -
which leaves a rather odd hole.

David Glover wrote:
BBC News 24's "red square" DOG seems to have disappeared at some point
today, to be replaced with a rather poorly done standard "white text in
the top left corner" affair.

False alarm.

It seems they turned it off for a "BBC News special" about Katrina.
It's come back now.

"David Glover" wrote in message
oups.com...
BBC News 24's "red square" DOG seems to have disappeared at some point
today, to be replaced with a rather poorly done standard "white text in
the top left corner" affair.

Pics:

http://homepage.mac.com/mwongozi/things/news24dog1.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/mwongozi/things/news24dog2.jpg


Good. It's back to the way it was two years ago. Now the next step is the
put the dog to sleep. I know what channel I'm watch and I don't need a dog
to tell me.

Thoughts:
- There's no clock anymore.

All the better. There's already a clock on my EPG.

- It's rather poorly done. The white text has a few black pixels around
it, which shows up more clearly against a bright background, as on the
second picture above.
- The other on-screen graphics, like the captions and the "live"
sticker, are still placed around where the red square DOG used to be -
which leaves a rather odd hole.

Have they been shrunk down so you can actually see what's going on behind
them ?

"David Glover" wrote in message
oups.com...
David Glover wrote:
BBC News 24's "red square" DOG seems to have disappeared at some point
today, to be replaced with a rather poorly done standard "white text in
the top left corner" affair.

False alarm.

It seems they turned it off for a "BBC News special" about Katrina.
It's come back now.

SOD IT !

David Glover wrote:
David Glover wrote:

BBC News 24's "red square" DOG seems to have disappeared at some point
today, to be replaced with a rather poorly done standard "white text in
the top left corner" affair.


False alarm.

It seems they turned it off for a "BBC News special" about Katrina.
It's come back now.

As the News Special was also probably broadcast on BBC1, they probably
turned it off so as not to annoy BBC1 viewers (obviously they don't give
a toss about News24 viewers)

"
Thoughts:
- There's no clock anymore.

All the better. There's already a clock on my EPG.


Would you believe there was a inbuilt software clock on my old Sony?

Shame such a feature is missing on me new telly.

Steve

"David Glover" wrote in message
oups.com...
BBC News 24's "red square" DOG seems to have disappeared at some point
today, to be replaced with a rather poorly done standard "white text in
the top left corner" affair.

Probably removed for a BBC News Special. (BBC World can superimpose a BBC
World logo over the top of the News 24 logo+clock, so it won't be for them,
or they can add their own graphics over a mainly-graphics free feed)

NB the BBC News 24 top left logo isn't that rare - they use it everynight
over ABC World News Tonight at 0140ish - as they remove the red logo+clock
to avoid clashing with ABC's graphics. (The show is also shown in
full-height 4:3, not cropped and zoomed to 14:9 pillarbox for the same
reason)

Steve

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David Glover writes
David Glover wrote:
BBC News 24's "red square" DOG seems to have disappeared at some point
today, to be replaced with a rather poorly done standard "white text in
the top left corner" affair.

False alarm.

It seems they turned it off for a "BBC News special" about Katrina.
It's come back now.

That's a pity, the little dog was a lot better than the "let's burn the
logo on this screen" standard News24 obliteration.

Early last week I was watching when first footage came in from New
Orleans and the commentator said something along the lines of "as you
can see from the red writing on the roof, this victim being rescued by
helicopter was clearly diabetic and in need of urgent medical
assistance"... except all you could see on the white roof was "BBC
News24 Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans". Like most of the live
footage they show on that channel, most of the useful parts of the
images get vandalised by the BBC, reducing their value as "breaking
news" - a message they never cease to obliterate their breaking news
images with!
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