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BBC to trial Scottish Six

DTV posted:

But you haven't tackled the devolution argument because Scotland is a unique case - sure many countries have federal structures but there isn't a massive separatist feeling in the US states and a long held belief of 'London-centrism'.

In Canada, there's a belief of a Toronto/Ontario/Quebec/Eastern Canada-centric bias and I believe in the US, there's the New York/East Coast bias and the sense of 'flyover' country being ignored.
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BBC News Channel General Discussion

The future of the channel in doubt again:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/29/bbc-news-cuts-news-channel
When does all of this uncertainty on the future of the BBC end?
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BBC News Channel & World News - merger speculation

I was planning to mention CNN specifically in that comment and having a second look at that it does look bad. Sorry about that, didn't mean give you the sense I ignored you. Embarassed
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BBC News Channel & World News - merger speculation

DTV posted:
The two channels also have different audiences - BBC World News's audience aren't going to be happy if the schedule gets flooded with UK news, politics etc. and similarly BBC News's audience wouldn't be happy if major UK news was being supplanted by major international news - the UK floods would be down the running order for instance. The overnight solution only works because few UK viewers are watching and the UK news can be pocketed into the breaks, you couldn't do that all day. One of BBC World News's advantages is that unlike US-based international news channels it isn't that centric to its nation of origin - that shouldn't be thrown away.
A major complaint of CNN International that I've seen is that it's too US-centric. The BBC is more international despite UK Reporters and that single half-hour on weekdays. Based on the CNNI simulcasts on CNN/US, I'm sure a non-American viewer doesn't really need to know about some arrest in some US city that probably wouldn't be significant on a national level in the first place. CNNI comes off as arrogant and self-centred based on what I've seen and other people's complaints. Since BBC World News is a commercial operation, wouldn't being more UK-centric push more viewers away to for example Al Jazeera where one of their anchors said in a promo they were 'properly international'.
Brekkie posted:

I do think though ultimately the BBC in the UK and the BBC outside of the UK has to serve two quite different audiences and definately feel the licence fee payer will be getting short changed by any merger. They could certainly work together more in sharing reports and programming, and that would probably lead to BBC News becoming more of an "appointment to view" service than rolling news

I get the feeling many of the international reports are already shared because many have a slight slant towards the UK but I could be wrong since the UK is a world power. And when the two news channels aren't simulcasting, many of the science, arts, and other stories on World are about or relates to Britain in some way or another.
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BBC News Channel & World News - merger speculation

In previous discussions, some have commented the savings would be, from how I read them, insignificant. Also, I saw somewhere (here maybe?) that there was no plan to shut the news channel after a review was carried out.
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BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

For anyone interested, it doesn't seem to be affecting BBC Arabic, which apparently got a new countdown and lower thirds recently.
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Aljazeera America is shutting down April 30

Charles posted:

It would be great to see AJE in North America return to what it used to be, or at least have something similar to what AJ London has with a few hours of primetime news with a regional angle.

As unlikely as it is, I'm still hoping they will hold onto staff in DC and revive at the very least those inserts from Washington 'with the top stories in the Americas' during the Newshour. Even though DC doesn't produce bulletins or inserts, they (in Doha) still continue to frequently cover stories from the often forgotten Latin American countries (a feature I really like about AJE) so the content is pretty much the same as before but it's better presentation-wise to have news from DC during primetime in the Americas.

By the way, AJE is still available north of the border.
Last edited by Independent on 17 January 2016 10:54pm - 2 times in total
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Aljazeera America is shutting down April 30

Rkolsen posted:
Does Al Jazeera English have their own correspondents in DC or do they solely rely on AJAM talent?

I don't know but I can tell you the DC correspondents that appear often on AJE are Patty Culhane, Kimberly Halkett, Alan Fisher, Rosland Jordan, Rob Reynolds, and Shihab Rattansi. They've been with AJE before AJAM and some used to anchor the DC bulletins before they were cancelled.
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Aljazeera America is shutting down April 30

WW Update posted:
Some interesting background about the closure:



I noticed The Guardian article mentioned AJE employs 530 people but AJAM's closure would lead to a loss of 700 jobs according to CNN. It seems odd that AJAM has more staff than AJE despite having to simulcast AJE very often.

Never heard of AJ+ before but having seen some of its content, it's aimed at millenials. The closure and digital plan will alienate some older viewers if they don't unblock AJE. I don't mean to stereotype but I don't think older people tend to like large text, cartoon animations, and/or music in news videos as much as millenials.
Last edited by Independent on 16 January 2016 7:38pm
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Aljazeera America is shutting down April 30

Rkolsen posted:
news channel neighborhood (where CNN, HLN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News and Wx Channel).

HLN is in that but not AJAM or Bloomberg??? Shocked
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Aljazeera America is shutting down April 30

It was a serious news station and it's obvious serious news is not a good business model anymore, not just in the US but everywhere. Aside from AJE, every 'free' news source I've watched or read is producing a lot more fluff at the expense of serious news and/or morphing into Buzzfeed to maximize revenues.
I do wonder if the closure and 'expansion' of its digital operations will lead to the unblocking of AJE in the US.
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BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

Is there any particular reason why the ticker is powered by an RSS feed these days rather than an actual human being except during a significant breaking news event? I don't know how often people will read the ticker but I know if the channel is on in a public space viewers will as there's no sound and they're going to get unhelpful headlines like 'David Bowie: A life in pictures' and 'Bowie's Financial Innovation'.