The Newsroom

BBC National/News Channel from New Broadcasting House

(March 2013)

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HO
House
A couple of years ago one presenter (Simon Jack) presented from Breakfast until the one o'clock news, and another (Maryam Moshiri) presented until after the Ten O'Clock News. Breakfast still has a business presenter, and another is on the NC during normal working hours - and both will have a proper compliment of producers/researchers assigned to cover business and economics. As has been said on this forum many times, the big cost of the business updates was the contributors fees of city analysts and guests - of which there used to be several a day. Now they are brought in on an as-needed basis.

Therefore it could be they've decided to use another format entirely, covering more stories in-depth than at present but without more interviews. The logical thing, surely, would be to obtain better rights/ co-ordination to replay business interviews that first aired on BBC World News, R4's Today, and BBC Five Live to keep costs down?
BA
bazinga
There was nothing wrong with the Business updates, i suppose the cost was too much. That's why they were axed. Although, i think it was stupid to do so as they'd never axe the sports and at the end of the headlines say 'a breif look at the sport'. It's a good choice to bring it back as it wasn't getting enough coverage, not something i'd expect from a rolling news channel. They can now use the tonnes of business presenters they have again. Laughing
PE
Pete Founding member
There was nothing wrong with the Business updates, i suppose the cost was too much. That's why they were axed. Although, i think it was stupid to do so as they'd never axe the sports and at the end of the headlines say 'a breif look at the sport'. It's a good choice to bring it back as it wasn't getting enough coverage, not something i'd expect from a rolling news channel. They can now use the tonnes of business presenters they have again. Laughing


Yes, because they've been kept in cardboard boxes for the last few years.

I really shouldn't have started posting again, I can feel my blood pressure rising.
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CA
Cando
The city analysts costs had little to do with it. They was very few (and mostly repeated in later updates) and were paid peanuts in most cases. Most do it for exposure. The channel needed to get their fixed costs down.
Pete posted:
There was nothing wrong with the Business updates, i suppose the cost was too much. That's why they were axed. Although, i think it was stupid to do so as they'd never axe the sports and at the end of the headlines say 'a breif look at the sport'. It's a good choice to bring it back as it wasn't getting enough coverage, not something i'd expect from a rolling news channel. They can now use the tonnes of business presenters they have again. Laughing


Yes, because they've been kept in cardboard boxes for the last few years.

I really shouldn't have started posting again, I can feel my blood pressure rising.


Totally agree, the stupidity is just astonishing. He seems to fail to realise the size of the cuts coming to BBC News in the next few years.
Last edited by Cando on 25 October 2013 8:49pm
DT
DTV
Although that post is no way near as stupid as the cuts themselves. I remember reading somewhere that the total amount of money that Jeremy Clarkson is the same as around 100 World Service employees. OK Clarkson is popular with some but they could cut his salary and other's in a similar position a bit. And as Charlie Brooker wrote in one of his Guardian columns that a few years back the BBC produced a Strictly Come Dancing promo that would of cost several £100K. The BBC spends too much on stuff it doesn't need and not enough on what it does need. And yes the BBC needs the World Service. Why in this country do we love destroying things that are so valuable?
CR
Critique
DTV posted:
Why in this country do we love destroying things that are so valuable?


The BBC is making cuts across the board to save money: 'Delivering quality first'. They are in no way destroying things 'that are so valuable', but instead making savings where they can - they've moved out of pretty much all their other London buildings to be in Broadcasting House to save money, and so on. BBC News has already been under a round of cuts, and I can't say I've noticed a dip in the quality of their journalism or news bulletins, and instead I've noticed how they've actually moved to a much superior studio and building in the process, so I think it's ridiculous to talk of 'destroying' things. You also have to remember that not everything is funded by the license fee, like BBC World News, for example, which is funded by BBC Worldwide.

Yes, things like dedicated business updates by business presenters were taken away, but Business was still well-covered by the BBC - it's just a matter of how it was presented.
IS
Inspector Sands
DTV posted:
I remember reading somewhere that the total amount of money that Jeremy Clarkson is the same as around 100 World Service employees. OK Clarkson is popular with some but they could cut his salary and other's in a similar position a bit.

Not really a fair comparison though, Jeremy Clarkson is the co-creator of one of the BBC's most profitable programmes. Top Gear brings a fortune for the BBC and his pay is linked to that; he gets a share of the revenues. Of course they could have agreed to give him less of a share but then he'd probably take it and the profits to a rival.
RA
radiolistener
Top Gear was running for years before Clarkson got involved.
VM
VMPhil
Top Gear was running for years before Clarkson got involved.

In its original factual format - Inspector Sands is referring to the current entertainment format which has been running since 2002, of which Clarkson is co-creator.
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BA
bilky asko
It appears the clocks going back has caused a few problems on BBC News - no reports playing, no ticker, no title sequence, or headline bed.
DV
dvboy
Oh dear, looks like everything but the studio has failed on BBC News channel.
BA
bilky asko
There's a report playing now - Adnan Nawaz didn't have much to fill the preceding time with - the top story, the second story, and the top story again.

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