BBC News 24

Susan osman on the overnight, fluffed the 12.45 headlines and the throw back to wbr up

I don't understand why people are so upset that foreigners are able to watch a BBC channel, surely any TV buff should be proud that people around the world would turn to N24 for information. Only ex-pats or those on holiday would concievably watch it regularly as the content is so UK based, and if a major story broke here that would make foreigners watch N24 it would be simulcast online and maybe on World anyway.

The license fee argument seems a futile one to me, taking this argument to its logical extreme N24 and World shouldn't be simulcast overnight as they should be completely seperate companies, not sharing reporters / presenters / crew. Its just arguing for arguings sake. Remember all BBC News output is provided in a pool set up to other broadcasters anyway, and is often used in other news broadcasts, now you're going to say that shouldn't happen either?

Poor argument. People that do not pay the licence fee have no right to watch the channel or any other domestic broadcasts. The internet happens to make enforcing this impossible, which is ridiculous -- there shouldn't be any domestic content readily available overseas (inc. websites).

Just because it might make you feel proud for them to watch the station in no way makes a case for it to be publicly available. Why not let anyone watch the cream of BBC drama for free instead of selling it internationally for example? This is in addition to the fact we already provide world services anyway. The sharing of BBC World resources with BBC News 24 and vice versa I would imagine would be tightly controlled (otherwise there would be some illegality I assume?) so it could be seen as an analogy of ITV news using a local BBC news studio for an interview etc.

If I paid a licence fee I wouldn't want to effectively subsidise ex-pats.

Can somebody tell me how many k's the News 24 stream is going at?

Thanks for your help..

Somethings wrong with the N24 stream, it's not going & I've got VLC player (it comes up with a error message)

that's what i found also..any one has a solution for that please ??

It's now fixed!

Watching Matthew Wosisname interview William Hague on the Green. Is Matthew Wosisname really that small? Hague is towering over him!

225Kbps

Who is Matthew Wosisname ??

Do u mean Matthew Amariwala ?

I believe I do, although that's only about the fifth way of spelling his surname that I've seen!