Today’s Broadcast reveals that Channel 4’s News At Noon now has a new on-screen touch set that allows the presenter to playout items.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy is able to “play material directly from the ITV broadcast server, including live rendered graphics and flash sequences. He can also play in sound bites and pre-cut pictures or bring up live feeds of events.”
So somebody has watched Andy Gray on Sky Sports play around with his technology one too many times and decided that this is what Channel 4’s news needs? Playing in sound bites is something that DJs do.
Meanwhile Mediaguardian reports that as part of News At Ten’s relaunch, it to will have ” state-of-the-art touch screen allowing presenters such as Sir Trevor McDonald to interact with images and objects on screen.”
The piece goes on to say that it will feature a new title sequence: “As the famous theme tune begins, the titles will zoom in on the Earth…”
A bit like this then…