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General day-to-day goings on the 1, 6 and 10 o'clock news (April 2005)

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NEWS 24
itsrobert posted:
Why are the main BBC News bulletins on Sundays just a mere 2 hours apart? The supposed "teatime" bulletin is at 1930 and the next bulletin is just two hours after that bulletin finishes, at 2200. I'm out every Sunday night usually between 1900 and 2230. That means that I cannot see a BBC News bulletin at all on Sundays (apart from a short summary at 1200). It's hardly as if I'm out for hours on end. ITV schedule their Sunday news bulletins at a more sensible time - at least I can usually see ITV News at 2300, even if it is very short.


I seem to remember the bulletins being much further apart in the past, with the "teatime" news going out at around 17:35, or something similar (perhaps I am wrong). Next Sunday there is a similar situation with As Time Goes By, My Hero, the Antiques Roadshow Greatest Finds pushing the news to 1935. I agree with "itsrobert" - why is it that they can't put the news on with a larger gap between the "teatime" and 10 o'clock bulletins?
:-(
A former member
itsrobert posted:
Why are the main BBC News bulletins on Sundays just a mere 2 hours apart? The supposed "teatime" bulletin is at 1930 and the next bulletin is just two hours after that bulletin finishes, at 2200. I'm out every Sunday night usually between 1900 and 2230. That means that I cannot see a BBC News bulletin at all on Sundays (apart from a short summary at 1200). It's hardly as if I'm out for hours on end. ITV schedule their Sunday news bulletins at a more sensible time - at least I can usually see ITV News at 2300, even if it is very short.


It's stupid isn't it? BBC1 have been scheduling the news on a Sunday like this for a few years now. I cannot understand why they put it on at that time. The 10pm bulletin (which I wish they wouldn't call "The Ten O'clock News - that's for weekdays only. It's the late bulletin, just like on Saturday, because it's the weekend) is on at the right time, but the 7:35 bulletin is ridiculous. Firstly, why 7:35 and not 7:30. It's been seven and a half hours since the last bulletin, which was very brief really, and it's too close to the late bulletin. Why not put it on at the more sensible time of around 5pm, which is equidistant in terms of time from the neighbouring bulletins. I want to watch the bloody news on BBC1 on a Sunday afternoon, but I can't anymore. I don't understand why the BBC do this, but it really pisses me off.
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Moz
Once again the Ten starts late tonight - at about 22.03. News 24 were aware as they carried through with the weather, but why's it happening? Is it policy, or just slack timing because it's done outside TVC now?
CA
cat
Why don't you use those three minutes to do something productive, like writing your life story or calling all of your friends, rather than sitting huffing and puffing then posting on here asking why it happens.

Does it actually matter?
MO
Moz
cat posted:
Why don't you use those three minutes to do something productive, like writing your life story or calling all of your friends, rather than sitting huffing and puffing then posting on here asking why it happens.

Does it actually matter?

Don't give a sh*t really, just do it to annoy you Catherine!
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cat
Moz posted:
cat posted:
Why don't you use those three minutes to do something productive, like writing your life story or calling all of your friends, rather than sitting huffing and puffing then posting on here asking why it happens.

Does it actually matter?

Don't give a sh*t really, just do it to annoy you Catherine!


Well damn you for not taking the bait.

There goes my fun.
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Ronant
Moz posted:
Once again the Ten starts late tonight - at about 22.03. News 24 were aware as they carried through with the weather, but why's it happening? Is it policy, or just slack timing because it's done outside TVC now?


It was again for a longer EastEnders - that'd the third time in the last few weeks. I don't mind - if they've got an good episode that's slightly too long i'd prefer it if they didn't chop bits out of it. Today was Honey and Billy's wedding, last time it happened it was Stacey's abortion and before that it was the Owen/Denise story. So they've all been big episodes.
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Spencer
Okay, so Martin Bell's a bit annoying and bursting with a sense of his own importance, but I have to agree with his thoughts on the current state of the Six...

MediaGuardian posted:
Former BBC foreign correspondent-turned-politician Martin Bell has accused the corporation's Six O'Clock News of turning into "a parody of something between Down Your Way and Nationwide".

The BBC's decision to take its early evening news bulletin on the road this week is a sign the programme is "running out of ideas", said Bell, in an article written for the Guardian's Comment is Free blog website.

And he warned that news anchor George Alagiah may be compelled to "consider his position" if what Bell calls "the nonsense" on the news programme continues.

"It is an axiom of television programmes that when the producers have run out of ideas, they take their show on the road," said Bell.

"This has now happened to BBC1's Six O'Clock News. At a time of terrorism abroad and political crisis at home, it has turned itself into a parody of something between Down Your Way and Nationwide."

He pointed out that yesterday, on a very busy news day, the bulletin summarily reported the deaths of a British tourist in Jordan and British soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq and then "went off to the seaside".


Full Article

The only thing I'm a bit puzzled about his how he's decided George Alagiah may want to quit. I'd have thought that was more a decision for George.

But he seems to be spot-on with everything else.
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Moz
Absolutely agree!

One thing that makes me wonder is the title "Six O'Clock News running out of ideas". Here's a new idea for the Six - how about just reading out the bloody news !!!! Radical, I know, but it may just work?
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A former member
Moz posted:
Absolutely agree!

One thing that makes me wonder is the title "Six O'Clock News running out of ideas". Here's a new idea for the Six - how about just reading out the bloody news !!!! Radical, I know, but it may just work?


I wish they'd axe the "Six special report" after the half way promo.
DO
Dog
Spencer For Hire posted:
Okay, so Martin Bell's a bit annoying and bursting with a sense of his own importance, but I have to agree with his thoughts on the current state of the Six...

MediaGuardian posted:
Former BBC foreign correspondent-turned-politician Martin Bell has accused the corporation's Six O'Clock News of turning into "a parody of something between Down Your Way and Nationwide".

The BBC's decision to take its early evening news bulletin on the road this week is a sign the programme is "running out of ideas", said Bell, in an article written for the Guardian's Comment is Free blog website.

And he warned that news anchor George Alagiah may be compelled to "consider his position" if what Bell calls "the nonsense" on the news programme continues.

"It is an axiom of television programmes that when the producers have run out of ideas, they take their show on the road," said Bell.

"This has now happened to BBC1's Six O'Clock News. At a time of terrorism abroad and political crisis at home, it has turned itself into a parody of something between Down Your Way and Nationwide."

He pointed out that yesterday, on a very busy news day, the bulletin summarily reported the deaths of a British tourist in Jordan and British soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq and then "went off to the seaside".


Full Article

The only thing I'm a bit puzzled about his how he's decided George Alagiah may want to quit. I'd have thought that was more a decision for George.

But he seems to be spot-on with everything else.


What Martin Bell is saying is this..... George Alagiah is a serious journalist; so why the hell would he want to be a part of this dumb, tabloid programme.

I agree with Bell.
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Spencer
Dog posted:
What Martin Bell is saying is this..... George Alagiah is a serious journalist; so why the hell would he want to be a part of this dumb, tabloid programme.

I agree with Bell.


Sure, but it does rather come across that Bell's made the decision for him. If I was George, I'd be a bit peed off about that.

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