London Live

I'm really not sure the audience is there in London for any news programming at 5pm. Who is supposed to be watching at that time? Why they are running a breakfast programme from 8.30-10am is beyond me too.

With scarce resources they should be putting all effort into the high visibility timeslots. People on here might like the idea of a full bulletin but I think its clear they simply don't have the resources to do it properly.

LL should be looking at things not offered elsewhere on TV and max out on that. Travel news is about the cheapest thing you can do, changes all the time and is vitally important in London.

As long as they have the obligation to provide 5.5 hours of news and current affairs output daily, the cheapest option appears to do what they're doing now, along with some tweaks suggested above.

While there are clear issues still, it's not 2014 where news wasn't in the DNA of the management of the channel.

However, I think as long as the channel is still part of the Standard/Lebedev family, it won't improve unless he decides to sell this vanity project of his. (Preferably not to That's TV!)

As far as I am aware they do. i understand they use Press Association and one other - although I'm not sure what that other one is though.

Given that Jim Grice used to run the PA VJ service, it's surprising they don't use the packages the PA VJs produce.

I'v seen the PA VJs in action on the ground, and they are impressive.

Wow, If he did that there and he's doing what he's doing at London Live then this is either too difficult a task for him for whatever reason or he's lost his mojo. Something ain't right.

I guess running a service that supplies TV footage to other broadcasters is quite different from running a channel's own news output.

Mind you, I'm amazed that they used their own poor-quality royal baby pictures if they had access to PA's.

There are different tiers to PA subscription ISTR. It could be that they don't have access to everything.

There are different tiers to London Live's news coverage too by the looks of it. Adequate, Average and Awful. It's May so the owners, if they meant what they said, should be looking at the channel again very soon. The hand could be hovering over the plug as we type....

The same can be said for the delivery of the bulletins, although awful isn't the same as a typical edition of Big Centre TV's The Midland.

That is true. Although, don't give them ideas.

Amusing bit from Kevin Maguire in the New Statesman - http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/05/david-cameron-has-keep-calm-poster-ed-snapshot-simpler-times

Watched a bit of London Live News at 5.30 - good news (though not for me personally) was they had a report on the signalling problems at Victoria, but I couldn't help but notice they're letting interviews drag on much longer, seemingly to fill time.

In the half hour I watched there were 2 live crosses (Victoria and a pub in E, one live studio interview, one studio interview (recorded earlier and very long) and one package (which I couldn't help feeling was a Video press release from BAA) on Heathrow's Bio Diversity Park.