2024 United Kingdom General Election - Media Coverage

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I must say hats off to the team on channel 4. Bar the graphics not as good, the overall coverage and layout has been much better than the bbc

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ITV’s graphics look extremely dated. They’ve had the same election and news presentation for a decade.

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GB News brekky show starting with Eammon looking like a baby in make-up, as he throws to some numbers crunches who sound like they’re in a cupboard, you hear him say ‘oh for god sake this is ridiculous…’ or words to that effect.

Also, amazes me how these anchors stay on for so long.
ITV has ended and gone to GMB (which isn’t on their live feed) but BBC, 4 and Sky all with their programs continuing.

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Compare and contrast to the graphics overload we tend to get in Australia - This is NSW 2023.




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BBC News seems to be opting out to international headlines globally while the domestic feed goes to Salford for 5 minutes at the top and bottom of the hour. I don’t know what the point is, given the top story is the same across both, but obviously another piece of evidence the combined News Channel experiment hasn’t worked out.

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Soon when it exits Foxtel.

ABC News Channel

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Switchover from night to day now

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The presenters could both be nude for all you’d know given those lower thirds are SO BIG.

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I think the unsung heroes of the night were CNN! Absolutely GORGEOUS set which was used really well, the presenters (Richard Quest and Isa Soares) bounced off each other beautifully, and it was a really fun atmosphere. Shame it can’t be like that every day…

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Thanks for that. Great compile of the front pages.

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Main bulletins - first story on ABC and 10.

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Normally we see chopper shots over London at this moment. Wonder if they can’t get a tv helicopter up because of the weather.

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They love fake news. :rofl:

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410 Tories seats with 131 Labour seats…in their wildest dreams

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Count Binface et al

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I noticed GB News had a few issues with supers for shots of poll declarations. They usually had a “decision imminent for (name)” which was supposed to change to “x wins/loses” or similar. Unfortunately they often seemed to have to cycle through a bunch of constituency graphics to find the right one. Sometimes they took the graphic down while they did this, often they did not, and the viewer was treated to a rapid burst of previously announced constituencies.

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