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LO
LONDON
Moz posted:
LONDON posted:
Moz posted:
Huw Edwards 5 o'clock News on News 24, George Alagiah 6 o'clock News on BBC One.

Ever strike anyone ironic how the BBC's chief news presenter goes off air just as millions of viewers turn on the telly for the news!


Well the BBC have sent alot of presenters to the scene

I wasn't talking about the Suffolk Murders, I was just talking in general - chief presenter Huw goes off air at 6pm as the most watched news programme goes on air. Ironic. There are no other examples of this surely?


I am not sure if it is the most watched Bulletin, as the 10, seems to have performed quite well recently, i belive on Tuesday it had 7.9 million viewers, which is easily 3 to 4 million more than the average 6 o'clock audience. And Huw was there to anchor the flagship hour on News 24, and the flagship BBC 1 bulletin. It also creates consistency for the viewer, the Six o'clock news is George's and Natasha's bulletin, why does Huw need to be sticking his ore in when he has the 10.
BR
Brekkie
Generally in the past though when Huw has been on location he's often done the 6pm bulletin too.
LO
LONDON
Brekkie Boy posted:
Generally in the past though when Huw has been on location he's often done the 6pm bulletin too.


True, but Ipswich is not that far from London, so it is easy for the BBC to get people on location.
MI
m_in_m
Is it not more to do with the fact that Huw now has the Five O Clock News Hour on BBC News 24.
LO
LONDON
m_in_m posted:
Is it not more to do with the fact that Huw now has the Five O Clock News Hour on BBC News 24.


But he has had that for almost 9 months now. Huw has presented both the 5 and 6 on location before. I think that it is alot easier to send anchors to Ipswich, rather than Beirut.
MO
Moz
m_in_m posted:
Is it not more to do with the fact that Huw now has the Five O Clock News Hour on BBC News 24.

I know the reason for it, I just think it's very bad scheduling.

Wouldn't it be wiser to try and tempt the large audience of the Six to turn to News 24 at 7pm (could do this during the N6 summary just before 7) using the carrot of some sort of in depth programme hosted by Huw.
MA
mansoor
LONDON posted:
Moz posted:
LONDON posted:
Moz posted:
Huw Edwards 5 o'clock News on News 24, George Alagiah 6 o'clock News on BBC One.

Ever strike anyone ironic how the BBC's chief news presenter goes off air just as millions of viewers turn on the telly for the news!


Well the BBC have sent alot of presenters to the scene

I wasn't talking about the Suffolk Murders, I was just talking in general - chief presenter Huw goes off air at 6pm as the most watched news programme goes on air. Ironic. There are no other examples of this surely?


I am not sure if it is the most watched Bulletin, as the 10, seems to have performed quite well recently, i belive on Tuesday it had 7.9 million viewers, which is easily 3 to 4 million more than the average 6 o'clock audience. And Huw was there to anchor the flagship hour on News 24, and the flagship BBC 1 bulletin. It also creates consistency for the viewer, the Six o'clock news is George's and Natasha's bulletin, why does Huw need to be sticking his ore in when he has the 10.


The six is no longer the most watched Bulletin.

For average for this year so far:

Six O'Clock News
4.1 million (2001 - 5.9 million),
24.4%

Ten O'Clock News
4.5 million (2001 - 5.1 million),
22.1%
CH
chris
mansoor posted:
LONDON posted:
Moz posted:
LONDON posted:
Moz posted:
Huw Edwards 5 o'clock News on News 24, George Alagiah 6 o'clock News on BBC One.

Ever strike anyone ironic how the BBC's chief news presenter goes off air just as millions of viewers turn on the telly for the news!


Well the BBC have sent alot of presenters to the scene

I wasn't talking about the Suffolk Murders, I was just talking in general - chief presenter Huw goes off air at 6pm as the most watched news programme goes on air. Ironic. There are no other examples of this surely?


I am not sure if it is the most watched Bulletin, as the 10, seems to have performed quite well recently, i belive on Tuesday it had 7.9 million viewers, which is easily 3 to 4 million more than the average 6 o'clock audience. And Huw was there to anchor the flagship hour on News 24, and the flagship BBC 1 bulletin. It also creates consistency for the viewer, the Six o'clock news is George's and Natasha's bulletin, why does Huw need to be sticking his ore in when he has the 10.


The six is no longer the most watched Bulletin.

For average for this year so far:

Six O'Clock News
4.1 million (2001 - 5.9 million),
24.4%

Ten O'Clock News
4.5 million (2001 - 5.1 million),
22.1%


Not surprising. George and Natasha (but more so George) have ruined the programme!
JA
Jakarta
I think it's worth remembering that the last three months of 2001 would have significantly increased the 12month average viewer rating compared to this year as a whole.
JW
JamesWorldNews
How long has the overnight simulcast been coming from World studio? I noted on the other thread several days ago that it had been coming from BBC World for a few days in a row, and last night was once again the same!

It must be a heck of a Christmas tree they are building over in N24 at night.
DA
Dave Founding member
Did anyone just see that on News 24?

Under the current graphics what looked to be the new graphics.

The clock was in the bottom left of the screen - if you are watching on a widescreen TV.

Where the ticker header is was the BBC News logo on one line, could not see if the 24 was on the end.

The graphic spanned the width of the screen and the top was as the same height as the current tower.

The colours were similar to the current tower colour and one what I saw the words Headline was centred on the screen.
MO
Moz
Looking at how good the weather looked from N6 and it's newswall the other night, compared to how crap it had looked from N8 on the Five the hour before, made me think how much better N8 would look with a newswall like they have in N6.

They could change the top existing design to the bottom one...

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/news24newswall.gif
And it'd look something like this...

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/news24newswall.jpg

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