eNCA Goes Back In Time

Since the advent of the tablet PC, most notably the iPad, these mobile PC's have been intergrated into many different types of live broadcasts, including talent shows, talk shows, and, of course, news broadcasts.

eNCA also had its anchors iPad's on display during live broadcasts (my favourite was Iman Rappetti's iPad with its red leather case), but since the channel swopped its studio desks that had been part of the furniture since the channel's launch back in 2008 for round tables, the channel instead has laptops on screen again, taking viewers back in time to when laptops were the hip technology around.

Now there is nothing wrong with having a laptop on screen, many anchors on channels like CNN has them on the side, often alongside a tablet PC and cellphone, bt the laptops used on eNCA don't seem very... trendy, if you ask me.

And it is not like the anchors actually use them while they on air. For example, count the amount of times Jeremy Maggs stares at it during a typical episode of News Night. I counted 0.

So why bother having a redundant object, a mere prop, on screen for no reason? No frills, no favour.