I dont speak french and I've watch a few minutes of the channel. So far it seems professionally done. Couple of hick-ups, but nothing major. The onscreen information includes constant traffic and weather and the transport system has a constantly update ticker/flipper. The presentation style is BFM perhaps a bit more subtle than the mothership, but it seems like a good service for Paris. Too bad for London.
I'm impressed with what I've seen so far. It's pretty much exactly what a news channel for a capital city should be like, and I wish London had something similar.
The France Télévisions anchors still have trouble to synchronize with the radio titles. At 9:40pm, the newscast anchor says it's time to get back to Myriam Bounafaa (the continuity anchor), though it's actually time for the titles live from Radio France. And at 9:50pm, Myriam Bounafaa does not finish her sentence in time before the radio titles launch. These problems occur much more rarely with the radio anchors. It confirms some of my doubts: whether on the content or on the shape, Radio France keeps being more professional than France Télévisions (though the fact that the France Info radio has nearly 30 years of experience can still excuse a part of it).
Such problems also apply at other times of the day. What's more, at the beginning, before the longer programmes produced by Radio France (8h30 Politique, Les Informés, Le Clasico), the news anchors used to introduce the programme before the switch to Radio France (for example, they would say "now it's time for 8h30 Politique, with Jean-Michel Aphatie and Fabienne Sintes"). Now they just say "our programmes continue on France Info". It's sad. I wonder if there's still conflict between Radio France and France Télévisions…
Also, SBT also drew some criticism over the past couple of months (especially from the local Journalists' Union) for replacing the previous co-anchors for
Primeiro Impacto
(both of which remain with SBT) with 18-year-old Dudu Camargo, which adopts a presenting style not unlike that of their time-period competitor, Luiz Bacci (who is much older than Camargo), from Record's
Balanço Geral Manhã
.
In May (2016), MDR's 24h radio news channel "MDR Info" was renamed to "MDR Aktuell". The new jingle for their news bulletins sounds similiar to its TV counterpart (0:35):