The current promos are obviously about the personalities and faces of presenters. After all that was why they had the relaunch, so they could get some bigger names on to the channel.
It is obvious in the promos that they are using people that the audience will all ready know from else where. Ben Brown - widely recognised journalist and reporter. Emily Maitlis - presenter of BBC London and recently NewsNight. Huw Edwards - presenter of the ten and ex-six presenter. Kate Silverton - ex-daytime prsenter, and Kaplinsky look a-like (obviously a recognised figure) and a breakfast presenter.
the new look is rubbish. Huw Edwards can't do rolling news or ad lib, despite his previous N24 experience
and why are these "newbies" presented as the "face" of N24 in the new trailers?? Kate Silverton and Emily Maitlis... I mean, what the hell?? just parachuted in as the "faces" of N24... Silverton has been round for a while (unfortunately), but her and Maitlis are projected as the "face" of the channel by these trailers.
What about the expert journalists?? They unfashionable all of a sudden? OK they have Jon Sopel on the trailers... where's Jane Hill? Where's Big Al? Where's Chris Eakin? Where's Tim Willcox? Where's Maxine? They suddenly unfashionable or not the kind of personality N24 wants to project? They just want pretty people, and it doesn't matter about their ability to deliver. Jane is the dog's b*llocks, but she's not in the trailers...
Ditch these "pretty people". Silverton drove Phil Hayton out, just cos she maybe looks better. But her delivery is far less authoritative. But lets face it. She's rubbish... *yawn*.
Its about time N24 put substance before style. People who watch rolling news aren't watching in order to see a fashion or prettiness show... they are watching to see news delivered to them in an authoritative and knowledgeable fashion...
In that sense, Carrie Gracie, Joanna Gosling, Kate Silverton, Liz Pike and the rest of those "genre" should go to regional news.
My spout for the night.
I agree with al ot of what you've said. After watching that Panorama on ageism on Sunday night i can't help feeling there's quite a bit of it about at News 24. All the main presenteres seem to be in their thirties and forties - then when you get to 50 everyone seems to dissapear with the exception of a few.
Ohh for any Midlands Today viewers Liz Copper has just popped up outside an Abbey....
And as an aside note, the trailers ("Every 15 minutes") will not only feature the likes of Brown, Silverton and Edwards, others such as Sopel will now be featured.
Ooh, this is like watching a car crash. After reading out some emails, we got "And now we join George Alagiah on BBC One for the main lunchtime news". Followed by a second of News 24 swirls, and the start of the news summary, with N6-style graphics, and the ticker covering up the BBC News logo on the titles.
I don't get BBC News 24 obviously because I don't live in the UK and today I got a chance to see some of the BBC News 24 set during overnights, and its been a while since ive seen any overnight news cos ive been at school... but the lighting seems to be a little different ... is it just me?
Damo, in comparison to the neatness and tidiness of the World set (at least from the viewers p.o.v.), the N24 studio is a real mess and a clutter.
It reminds me of the sometimes trip I have had to make on a bus to an aircraft that is parked at a remote stand at Heathrow airport. When you see it close up, Heathrow is a pig sty and and eye sore for what is supposed to be our international gateway, and especially when compared to the likes of Amsterdam and Frankfurt. When you see it close up, there are bits falling off the terminal roof and the walls are a mess and it just doesn't look like a professional work place.
I feel the same can be said of BBC TV News - it is just too "crap" in terms of its studios and sets, when compared to hte grandness of Sky and CNN.
Visual impressions count, and an overview of N24 studio looks a bit like hidden Heathrow - untidy, bits "added-on" here, there and everywhere, and a little bit like a rush job to make it look good. As if there was no thought or planning put into how the whole thing is expected to fit together.
I am glad they are moving to a purpose built venue in a few years - as the institution it is, BBC News deserves better than lego sets.
I saw a sports trailer just before midday - a runner runing round the clock , with the pulses at quarter past and quarter to - same music as other trailers.
Maybe a stupid question. But does anybody know why on BBC News when there is a single presenter they sit at the side of the desk and not in the middle?
Basically (in the case of the BBC One simulcast) because the background behind that bit of the desk looks more like the normal BBC 1 bulletin set. Also, I believe there's a printer in the middle of the desk, so you wouldn't be able to get your legs under the table!