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(New page: YSTV Week was the replacement flagship news programme for Bulletin, launching in May 2003. ==Beginnings== It was born out of a desire to produce a better news programme. At the tim...) |
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The programme would always aim to lead on a campus story, and later in the show would move onto local news or national news relavent to students, such as the top up fees debate. After a few stories there would be a paper review, using the new remote-controller overhead camera known as "Death Star" to look at the campus and local press. Following this would be sports news, and then a full weather forecast using YSTV's new chromakey mixer. Finally there would be an "and finally" story. Most importantly the show would have banted from the presenters, as [[Bulletin]] had become rather dry towards the end. The show would try to act as a "review" of the previous week, rather than the latest news, as by staying non-topical it could be repeated for the following seven days. The YSTV News "colours" were cream and purple, and this was reflected in the graphics. | The programme would always aim to lead on a campus story, and later in the show would move onto local news or national news relavent to students, such as the top up fees debate. After a few stories there would be a paper review, using the new remote-controller overhead camera known as "Death Star" to look at the campus and local press. Following this would be sports news, and then a full weather forecast using YSTV's new chromakey mixer. Finally there would be an "and finally" story. Most importantly the show would have banted from the presenters, as [[Bulletin]] had become rather dry towards the end. The show would try to act as a "review" of the previous week, rather than the latest news, as by staying non-topical it could be repeated for the following seven days. The YSTV News "colours" were cream and purple, and this was reflected in the graphics. | ||
The programme recycled the set from [[Elections 2003]], designed and built by [[John Biltcliffe]] and [[Andrew Talbot]]. This was also to be used for [[Bona Dicta]] and future [[Elections]] programmes in order to build a corporate image for YSTV's News and Current Affairs output, similar to the BBC since 1999. In addition, two arangements of the same piece of up-beat library music were used for these programmes. | The programme recycled the set from [[Elections 2003]], designed and built by [[John Biltcliffe]] and [[Andrew Talbot]]. This was also to be used for [[Bona Dicta]] and future [[Elections]] programmes in order to build a corporate image for YSTV's News and Current Affairs output, similar to the BBC since 1999. In addition, two arangements of the same piece of up-beat library music were used for these programmes. The titles were a fast-paced compilation of shots from around the university, edited by [[Dave Baker]], with words superimposd by [[Ed Jellard]]. However these words were dropped in favour of the "clean" version in January 2005. The set was also repainted a darker colour in January 2006. Other than these, the show remained broadly similar for its three years on air. | ||
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==Presenters== | ==Presenters== | ||
YSTV Week had no regular presenters as such, and subscribed to the YSTV tradition of anyone being able to "have a go". However certain people presented more editions that others, such as [[James Gallagher]], [[Kat Sutton]], [[Will Hotham]], [[Kev Larkin]] and [[Lucy Watkins]]. The same principle applied for the weather, although for much of 2004-5 that section of the show was hosted by [[Anthony Laverty]] in his own imitable style. | YSTV Week had no regular presenters as such, and subscribed to the YSTV tradition of anyone being able to "have a go". However certain people presented more editions that others, such as [[James Gallagher]], [[Kat Sutton]], [[Will Hotham]], [[Kev Larkin]] and [[Lucy Watkins]]. The same principle applied for the weather, although for much of 2004-5 that section of the show was hosted by [[Anthony Laverty]] in his own imitable style. | ||
==Weather== | |||
Weather had been attempted before on YSTV's news output - most memorably on location with [[Chris Ward]] during the [[Bulletin]] era, where he would turn up in a variety of locations with primitive 1970s BBC-style stick on symbols, including once in the Goodricke lift. Other times primitive on-screen graphics were attempted, with even some basic chromakey at one point. By the end of Bulletin however the weather was a verbal read-through of the forecast. This changed with the arrival of YSTV's chromakey mixed. Initially the weather was presented from a green board mounted on a set board, using [[Ed Jellard]]'s WeatherEd programme. Images were usually stolen from the BBC's weather website. From January 2004 a whole wall of the studio was painted green, which made the set up far easier. Later [[Drew Perry]] wrote a programme that produced YSTV's own weather graphics, entitled WeatherDrew. | |||
==The End== | ==The End== | ||
In 2006 the post of [[Controller of News and Current Affairs]] was axed, along with all other genre-specific roles. In future producers of each individual programme would be elected outside of AGMs. There was no-one willing to take on the role of producer of the programme, so after May 2006 regular production of the programme ended. A few weeks later new [[Production Director]] [[Sarah Leese]] produced a one-off spoof edition of the show, satirising the format of the previous three years. At the end of the summer term a new pre-recorded format of the programme was attempted, with presenters on location and the programme far shorter. However this took copious amount of time to edit, and so the idea was not continued. This turned out to be the last edition of the programme. It would be December before the next incarnation of YSTV's news output appeared, suitable enough called [[YSTV Week]]. In the meantime the YSTV Week set was used for new show [[Four Play]], although later was used again (minus desk) for [[YSTV News]]. | In 2006 the post of [[Controller of News and Current Affairs]] was axed, along with all other genre-specific roles. In future producers of each individual programme would be elected outside of AGMs. There was no-one willing to take on the role of producer of the programme, so after May 2006 regular production of the programme ended. A few weeks later new [[Production Director]] [[Sarah Leese]] produced a one-off spoof edition of the show, satirising the format of the previous three years. At the end of the summer term a new pre-recorded format of the programme was attempted, with presenters on location and the programme far shorter. However this took copious amount of time to edit, and so the idea was not continued. This turned out to be the last edition of the programme. It would be December before the next incarnation of YSTV's news output appeared, suitable enough called [[YSTV Week]]. In the meantime the YSTV Week set was used for new show [[Four Play]], although later was used again (minus desk) for [[YSTV News]]. | ||