BBC National News: Presentation

The Sky EPG is showing a BBC News Special about the weather/travel chaos tomorrow night from 8pm, slotted amongst various fillers as the footy is off.

Unusual ending to the One today. Rather than the usual sign-off with a handover to the regions, they used the opportunity to show a 30-second sequence of stills from Haiti in complete silence. I thought the effect was quite dramatic.

http://vid273.photobucket.com/albums/jj219/StuartPlymouth/BBC-News-One-Enda-150110.flv

Was that to hand over to the NC?
On Look North we never got that - when Kate stopped talking, our regional bulletin began.

In the South West our regional bulletin (Spotlight) didn't start until after the sequence had finished. I've edited my video to show this.

As nice as that is, in my opinion nothing can beat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCES8I8g5WE as a dramatic closing sequence.

I'm sure you don't really mean that either sequence portrays anything particularly 'nice': more that they both have an informative and profound effect on the viewer, which is no doubt the intent of good journalism, both written, aural and video-based.

Um, all I meant was that the music adds to it really...

I think they're different things. The Haiti montage works better in silence to draw your attention to it; and to try to invoke some emotions in the viewer. War footage gets to have bombastic music to make it seem exciting. A media student would probably call it the grammar of news. See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BO6GP9NMY#t=2m51s

BBC news at 6 finished earlier than usual tonight - we had the weather at 18.23 and over to the regions by 18.26!

Making room for the DEC appeal at 1855.

Has the Sunday night 10pm bulletin now been moved to 10.30pm permanently, it is on at the later time next week as well. Not long ago the Sunday 10pm bulletin was quite high profile and some on here classed it as a proper '10' bulletin.

I really wish they'd decide what they're calling the national bulletins. Today's evening bulletin was introduced by the announcer as "The Six o'clock News," yet we were welcomed by George to the "BBC News at 6," only for him to end saying he'd be back with the "BBC 's News at 10." This whole "brand-strengthening" tactic really doesn't seem to be working. I know it's arguably minor, but it's pretty annoying.