BBC London

I stand corrected. It has been a while since I saw a lunchtime London regional bulletin.

Is it really necessary during the 1.15pm headlines to plug that 'Peter Cockcroft will be here with the weather'? Considering the weather is at the end of every single bulletin could the time not be put to better use with say, a second headline?

and russ will be here with the weather, won;t you russ?
apparently so...

A BBC LONDON special this evening, focusing on Christianity. Full headline round-up including an "info bar" at the bottom with BBC LONDON logo at bottom left, a headline relating to the visuals, and below scrolling information carrying the radio station frequency and web address. The whole package, from the headline bed into the titles, is consistent, but the music is extremely feeble, and there's really no dynamism to the visuals of the titles any more either.

I'm a little more impressed now that I've seen the full package, but the overall impression is that this isn't an improvement over the previous package.


Addendum: There's also a new endcap, dumping the previous "ON TV ON RADIO ONLINE" legend, and instead showing out of focus video at the top, with the BBC LONDON logo at bottom left and copyright information at the bottom left, in the same style as the headlines "info bar".

The headline bar appeared last night and looks quite good as well. Last night however the handover was different to tonight, whereby the headline music started playing over the BBC LONDON logo, then the white scroll thing came over the screen to reveal Emily in the studio, and then the headline bar appeared.

However i disagree with you on the point of the headline bed music being feeble, its a major improvement over the last one. I do agree the title music is feeble however, and the rest of the visuals are a giant leap backwards.

I quite like the headline graphics actually, they're diffrent for some reason appealing but the opening bed is very very nice...

BBC London - Opening & Close

Agreed, its the only bit of the new package i really like, although the short remix of the main theme they use for the short bulletins is quite good too.

I have put on some caps here of the new look:

1. Plain opening graphic used before headlines

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/showUploadFiles.php?file2dl=bbcldn1.JPG

2. Headline info bar

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/showUploadFiles.php?file2dl=bbcldn3.JPG

3. Opening title stills

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/showUploadFiles.php?file2dl=bbcldn4.JPG

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/showUploadFiles.php?file2dl=bbcldn5.JPG

OH MY F'IN GOD! London used to have the best presentation of all the regions. Now it looks like a very TERRIBLE mock.

What is the world coming too??? Or did the original look go up in the oil fire and this is just an emergency replacement?

Truly truly awful.

I wonder why BBC LONDON 94.9 FM have not changed the music.
Wasn't BBC LDN supposed to be the flagship tri-media region with one single brand for TV, radio and the web?

Anyone else noticed that todays opening titles are diffrent to yesterday's?

It was the testbed for the famed 'trimedia' experiment - but while the experiment was a broad success in London, the biggest flaw was that television regions aren't served by a single radio station. BBC LONDON 94.9, BBC LONDON News and BBC LONDON Online is great - but not everyone who gets BBC LONDON TV News gets 94.9; some get BBC Three Counties Radio, others get Southern Counties, or Radio Essex - and then of course the boundaries are blurred again with some of the radio audiences getting LONDON, and others getting South Today or South East Today.

Partly as a result of both the London trimedia experiment, and the Hull omnimedia experiment, we're now seeing a subtle move away from trimedia, towards multimedia, mobile content and local services on demand.