BBC regional news - Now with added Reith

Yes, it's just '"BBC London"' now. Programme presenters and reporter pay-offs don't use the "News" at the end any more.

What is odd though is the continued inclusion of the 'BBC News' logo on all the English Region title graphics. The English Regions all moved out of the BBC News directorate at least a couple of years ago and separated off into Nations and Regions.

Probably because ITV local news does the same? The programme titlecard says ITV News Calendar, but it's not made by ITN like the national news is.

Oddly the lunchtime presenter yesterday did say BBC London News. Calling it BBC London is just odd.

BBC London travel graphics during Breakfast.

BBC Newsline have updated their Twitter handle to Reith.



We should expect something to happen very soon once The Open officially concludes at Royal Portrush.

That's not BBC Newsline - that's BBC News NI. If you watched any of the NW200 output back in May, you'd have caught the new BBC News NI logo in the paddock.

BBC Newsline on Twitter and Facebook are still using the old logo.

https://twitter.com/bbcnewsline
http://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsline

Presumably come the autumn the regions will use the night time variants for the main bulletins too.

Possibly, unless they've made summer and winter versions.

The original BBC London titles did this, they had night and day summer and night and day winter. There the difference was quite subtle, a lot of the scenes were the same but just shot to look like different times of day or different weather

Under One BBC, output shouldn't reflect the org chart innit

BBC London has always had an identity crisis since it launched. There was the LDN nonsense as part of the tri-media catastrophe, then BBC London, then presenters saying BBC London News without 'news' being part of the on-screen branding and now back to BBC London.

With the pisspoor local radio station having as many rebrands over the last 49 years, it gives the impression the BBC at local level in London are clueless.

It was always called 'BBC London News' from launch in 2001, as seen in the Radio Times listing: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f2e1c1605084452bba9c5aa0d2720721 although someone thought it would be trendy to brand it all with the LDN logo leading people to think that was actually the name of the programme, or that it stood for 'London Daily News' or something.

The originally planned name of course was 'London Live', tying in with the short-lived name for the radio station from 2000-01.

I don't think much of them now trying to just call it 'BBC London' - but in 1969/70, the regional news for the South East, which was really just a segment of Nationwide, was simply billed as 'London' in Radio Times whenever Nationwide was off the air: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/07b3e5343f734cf5a10ae2a7418b1b9f

Spotlight still using the old BBC News box as its closing caption.