BBC National News: Presentation

Yep, spot on. Amazingly motorways under a couple if inches of snow, look exactly the same as they did last year when they were under a couple of inches of snow. And quite why Keith Doyle has to stand at the northern end of Heathrow's tunnel gather the facts that anyone at TVC could do by going to. .

http://www.heathrowairport.com/

..is beyond me.

Isn't the One o'clock News essentially a news channel simulcast anyway, rather than a simulcast of the BBC1 bulletin as the 6pm/10pm one is.

In theory as most weekend coverage on the news channel is essentially a 30-minute bulletin at the top of the hour a regular BBC1 weekend edition wouldn't cost much - if anything - at all, and certainly be preferable to the usual Sunday afternoon repeats.

The One O'Clock News does have a production team, separate to the NC, which also does the BBC News at Five on the NC.

However I suspect the NC team did just produce that bulletin with someone there familiar with the News at One, all they need to do is tweak the format a little and it's sorted. I'd rather the evening/late bulletins were like that too, but they are only 20 minutes and quite basic.

Are you sure about that? I'm sure the NC production team took over the One in 2008, as until then the One and Six had previously shared a production team. And rather than having a couple of extra interviews and maybe a more increased presence of Nick Robinson and co, the Five is surely a re-formated version of what the News Channel otherwise blurts out all day?

The only thing about a 30 minute weekend lunchtime bulletin would that some weeks it would inevitably have to be reduced due to sport, but certainly do it whenever possible. Indeed I would say that about all weekend bulletins. The content is there from the News Channel

But you have to remember that the weekend bulletins have traditionally been much shorter, not only on the BBC but most other national broadcasters too, because there generally isn't much news generated at weekends. I didn't see the bulletin last weekend but I suspect it was padded out with snow coverage and sport. On an average weekend even the News Channel struggles to put out a decent 30 minutes of news without relying on interviews, features and extended sport bulletins. Sundays sometimes have the odd political story off the back of Andrew Marr but for the most part there's little in the way of politics and economic news. A 30-minute weekend bulletin would most likely be spent covering dozens of murders and other domestic incidents, foreign news and sport. Is that what BBC1 viewers really want at the weekend? Wouldn't the time be better spent on alternative programmes?

Fair enough it has adverts, but C4 manage a 30 minute weekend programme. And plenty of other countries manage 30 minute weekend bulletins - the US, Ireland (RTE) and Australia for example

Didn't they do this with the BBC News at Ten some months ago on a weekend with Clive Myrie introducing it as 'Welcome to the BBC News at Ten' and standing by the far wall as they do in the week (I believe it was a Sunday?).

An image from behind the scenes of the 8pm Summary from the director:

https://twitter.com/#!/chrisckmedia/status/167706971892490241/photo/1

That is very cool!

Love looking at behind the scenes photos of news studios.

Didn't realise it came from TC7. Interesting. If reports in other threads are to believed (that TC7 will close once World News, Newsnight and Marr etc. move to Broadcasting House), I wonder where it will come from then.

Presumably they use TC7 because N10 (the clip studio) is in use for 60 Seconds on BBC Three?