BBC News 24: Presentation discussion

Have have BBC News 24 managed to miss the Darling announcement about Northern Rock becoming nationalised. They have lead with ti for the past 40+ mins and then when its official, they miss it!

That sounds like the BBC - they did the same when Glasgow won the Commonwealth Games - loads of build up, then miss the announcement.

They also did the same with Kosovan independence - covered it extensively with all the preamble speeches, then went to a recorded programme as they actually signed the independence declaration. Pitiful!

Much neater junction to the BBC1 news there - a countdown digitally zoomed in to remove the countdown numbers, with the ticker and DOG still up, into the 17:35 news with Mishal. Still caught a reflection of Peter's head in the left hand pod at the start of the bulletin, but apart from that, not too bad. I can understand why they've gone down the countdown route, but it still appears strange.

I wouldn't say it was that neat. They cut off a replay of part of the press conference by Alistair Darling with vision going into the countdown but audio following a few seconds later.

Considering BBC One came out of a pre-recorded programme the handover to the BBC One bulletin should have been absolutely seemless. The BBC need to make these junctions less messy.

Any chance of a few caps or video?

I also thought it was very messy. There was no explanation, the video report was simply cut off and we were thrown into a countdown sequence without any numbers.

I would've put up some caps, but I've already deleted the programme

The flexible times of the weekend bulletins always makes these simulcasts quite messy - ITV had the same problem back in the day of the news channel, though at least they didn't bother simulcasting the short lunchtime bulletins, letting the news channel do it's own thing.


There's no reason at all why these junctions should be messy at all - just extend/shorten the News 24 running order accordingly, opt out for a "break" and then return with the "BBC1" bulletin.

They should never though launch into say a 5pm hour as normal and then have the BBC1 bulletin 10 minutes later. In that case just extend the previous hour by 10-15 minutes, perhaps with a headline summary at the top of the hour and a note a full bulletin follows later.

It's quite funny how a few years ago ITV News used to be criticised constantly for simulcasting network bulletins and how messy it looked and how the whole channel was unwatchable as a result, now we've got the BBC doing it and twice as badly. At least ITV News used to have more than one studio available to them.

As Brekkie says, they also had the single cso camera studio to use for short bulletins rather than disrupting the channel for an insignificant bulletin

I agree, it did look very shoddy.

And to think News24 was to be the priority. They're having a laugh!

Yesterdays 5.35 bulletin should have been so easy fr them. Extend a report into either the Northern Rock or Kosovo story and then run late into the weather (which wouldn't have surprised anyone with the news stories developing yesterday) They could then have either run a long weather forecast, or run a number of trailers afterwards leading straight into the bulletin.