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BBC Breakfast

(March 2009)

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CH
chris
woah posted:
Lightoftruth posted:
House posted:
Lightoftruth posted:
I'm sure you can do a News/Sport/Weather/Local traffic in that new studio. I think the traffic from your region will be more useful then local news in that slot. The local presenters could tell you if you want the local news head over to Red Button page (Page Number they say here depending on what region you in) Smile


Well they certainly do (or at least did) News, travel and weather in London's Breakfast bulletins - they even had a specific traffic reporter for some time.


That only the south regions though. North just tells you to listen to the Radio for Traffic news Rolling Eyes


They definitely give traffic updates in the Look North Yorkshire Breakfast bulletins.


North West Today give a short update at the end too.
DO
dosxuk
woah posted:
Lightoftruth posted:
House posted:
Lightoftruth posted:
I'm sure you can do a News/Sport/Weather/Local traffic in that new studio. I think the traffic from your region will be more useful then local news in that slot. The local presenters could tell you if you want the local news head over to Red Button page (Page Number they say here depending on what region you in) Smile


Well they certainly do (or at least did) News, travel and weather in London's Breakfast bulletins - they even had a specific traffic reporter for some time.


That only the south regions though. North just tells you to listen to the Radio for Traffic news Rolling Eyes


They definitely give traffic updates in the Look North Yorkshire Breakfast bulletins.


And waste of time that normally is "The M1's busy, the M62's busy, Leeds and Sheffield are both at a standstill and some scroates have stolen all the signalling cables in Barnsley so there's no trains." every bloomin day.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Lightoftruth posted:
House posted:
Lightoftruth posted:
I'm sure you can do a News/Sport/Weather/Local traffic in that new studio. I think the traffic from your region will be more useful then local news in that slot. The local presenters could tell you if you want the local news head over to Red Button page (Page Number they say here depending on what region you in) Smile


Well they certainly do (or at least did) News, travel and weather in London's Breakfast bulletins - they even had a specific traffic reporter for some time.


That only the south regions though. North just tells you to listen to the Radio for Traffic news Rolling Eyes


That's wrong in both cases. It's not the 'south regions', it's only London which will have had a separate traffic reporter and indeed GMTV London bulletins still cross over to a bloke at trafficlink for a 30 second spot.

Everyone else, north and south has travel news consisting of spoken over slides, of varying depths depending on how urban the region is.
PE
Pete Founding member
Scotland uses traffic cameras as part of the Breakfast bulletins. Do other regions do this apart from London?
CH
chris_rgu
Pete posted:
Scotland uses traffic cameras as part of the Breakfast bulletins. Do other regions do this apart from London?


Do they? I've never seen them!
PE
Pete Founding member
chris_rgu posted:
Pete posted:
Scotland uses traffic cameras as part of the Breakfast bulletins. Do other regions do this apart from London?


Do they? I've never seen them!


The Traffic Scotland (formerally NADICS) views of tailbacks in Glasgow and Edinburgh? No? They've had them for years.
CH
chris_rgu
Pete posted:
chris_rgu posted:
Pete posted:
Scotland uses traffic cameras as part of the Breakfast bulletins. Do other regions do this apart from London?


Do they? I've never seen them!


The Traffic Scotland (formerally NADICS) views of tailbacks in Glasgow and Edinburgh? No? They've had them for years.


hmmm not that I seem to remember but mabye I've been too asleep at that time in the morning!!
NW
nwtv2003
chris posted:
North West Today give a short update at the end too.


They always used to, but when I've watched it a couple of times this week the presenter has said to tune to your BBC Local Radio station.

Does BBC London still have the TfL Cameras segment about 2 stories into the bulletin?
DG
Dan Gooding
I know this is probably mentioned pages ago, but when is Breakfast actually due to move?
DP
DavidPeterMartin
JAH posted:
Danslink posted:
It's looking bleak for BBC Breakfast.


No, it's not.


Yes things do look bleak for BBC Breakfast News.
Even the Guardian Newspaper ( hardly the most right wing of newspapers ) has questioned the move to Media City in Salford.
JA
jamesmd
DavidPeterMartin posted:
JAH posted:
Danslink posted:
It's looking bleak for BBC Breakfast.


No, it's not.


Yes things do look bleak for BBC Breakfast News.
Even the Guardian Newspaper ( hardly the most right wing of newspapers ) has questioned the move to Media City in Salford.


If things truly looked bleak for Breakfast (it's not been called 'BBC Breakfast News' for a long time, except for the dyslexic headline writers at the Mirror) then the programme would be losing viewers, and be a poor programme. Yet it's not.

People can question all they like - who knows, it might shuffle out some of the dead wood from the BBC - but you (and the Grauniad) simply don't know how the move will pan out until it actually happens. And hey - it's nice to see an initiative to make programmes from somewhere other than the bloody capital.

So hardly looking 'bleak'. It's newspapers speculating and the programme moving in the long term.
WE
Westy2
Theorectically, could the redundant(for want of a better word?) Breakfast presenters join the general BBC News (Channel) presentation team or not?

(In other words, could Bill, Sian & co appear on the NC rota if they left Breakfast?)

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