FR
Here is Kate Silverton and Ian White with the 90 seconds update.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x2V87iWxd4E
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x2V87iWxd4E
TE
I think they did, Midlands Today did anyway:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/Update3.png
dvboy posted:
Did most regions do a weather summary?
I like the idea, but to be honest I'm only likely to watch it if it's on before/after a programme I am already going to watch, likewise Five News Update and 60 Seconds on BBC Three.
I like the idea, but to be honest I'm only likely to watch it if it's on before/after a programme I am already going to watch, likewise Five News Update and 60 Seconds on BBC Three.
I think they did, Midlands Today did anyway:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/Update3.png
LE
The BBC Channel Islands opt uses a very large plasma screen and a black fabric wrapped behind the screen and presenter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/content/images/2007/12/07/spotlight_8pm_470x233.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/content/articles/2007/12/07/spotlight_8pm_bulletin_feature.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/content/images/2007/12/07/spotlight_8pm_470x233.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/content/articles/2007/12/07/spotlight_8pm_bulletin_feature.shtml
BR
Glad they saw the sense in doing the weather on a local, rather than national, level.
True - but it could damage the brand as a whole.
m_in_m posted:
I think the bulletin was very effective for what it was aiming to do. It was clearly not aimed at your average BBC News viewer. It provided a brief but accurate round off the key stories of the day.
It will never replace other bulletins, and is clearly not designed to.
It will never replace other bulletins, and is clearly not designed to.
True - but it could damage the brand as a whole.
ST
So as far as I can tell from your comments so far only the East Midlands bulletin featured a new presenter. I wonder if this is because the two female presenters that appear often in the evenings, Anne Davies on the 6.30 bulletin, and Jo Healy on the Late bulletin are both older, and didn't fit with the targeted market, as with Huw Edwards. The new presenter was certainly younger.
IT
itsrobert
Founding member
Despite being a young adult, I'm probably not the intended audience for this bulletin, considering I watch the Ten O'Clock News. However, as a young person myself I find the style of the bulletin very patronising to my age bracket in general. For instance, on one of the stories, Silverton said that bodies were 'dug up'. Couldn't she just have said 'exhumed'? Surely most people understand what that means? It seems to be dumbing down just for the sake of it.
BR
It's all very patronising and even the "stupid" audience it's aimed at isn't stupid - you can tell when it's genuine and you can tell when they're trying to hard.
It's the BBC trying to be something it's not - when the 5 News Updates launched 10 years ago they were effortless and you could get everything you needed to know in a couple of minutes without feeling patronised.
itsrobert posted:
Despite being a young adult, I'm probably not the intended audience for this bulletin, considering I watch the Ten O'Clock News. However, as a young person myself I find the style of the bulletin very patronising to my age bracket in general. For instance, on one of the stories, Silverton said that bodies were 'dug up'. Couldn't she just have said 'exhumed'? Surely most people understand what that means? It seems to be dumbing down just for the sake of it.
It's all very patronising and even the "stupid" audience it's aimed at isn't stupid - you can tell when it's genuine and you can tell when they're trying to hard.
It's the BBC trying to be something it's not - when the 5 News Updates launched 10 years ago they were effortless and you could get everything you needed to know in a couple of minutes without feeling patronised.
SO
How pathetic...not impressed with Jade Silverton either
Jane Hill would give it a bit of gravitas this was fluff
Jane Hill would give it a bit of gravitas this was fluff
IT
It's all very patronising and even the "stupid" audience it's aimed at isn't stupid - you can tell when it's genuine and you can tell when they're trying to hard.
It's the BBC trying to be something it's not - when the 5 News Updates launched 10 years ago they were effortless and you could get everything you needed to know in a couple of minutes without feeling patronised.
Yes, I recently stumbled upon a few C5 News updates c.1997 on YouTube (at the time, our analogue C5 reception here was pretty chronic until we got Sky) and they were executed a lot more professionally than this effort by the BBC. Isn't it ironic: the BBC can't even improve on C5's version despite the 10 years worth of technological advancements since!
On a slightly related note, does anyone think that TV news will come full circle and return to proper, decent, intellectual bulletins, presented by both old and young newsreaders sat firmly behind desks, casting aside all of this gimmickery? I long for that day........
itsrobert
Founding member
Brekkie Boy posted:
itsrobert posted:
Despite being a young adult, I'm probably not the intended audience for this bulletin, considering I watch the Ten O'Clock News. However, as a young person myself I find the style of the bulletin very patronising to my age bracket in general. For instance, on one of the stories, Silverton said that bodies were 'dug up'. Couldn't she just have said 'exhumed'? Surely most people understand what that means? It seems to be dumbing down just for the sake of it.
It's all very patronising and even the "stupid" audience it's aimed at isn't stupid - you can tell when it's genuine and you can tell when they're trying to hard.
It's the BBC trying to be something it's not - when the 5 News Updates launched 10 years ago they were effortless and you could get everything you needed to know in a couple of minutes without feeling patronised.
Yes, I recently stumbled upon a few C5 News updates c.1997 on YouTube (at the time, our analogue C5 reception here was pretty chronic until we got Sky) and they were executed a lot more professionally than this effort by the BBC. Isn't it ironic: the BBC can't even improve on C5's version despite the 10 years worth of technological advancements since!
On a slightly related note, does anyone think that TV news will come full circle and return to proper, decent, intellectual bulletins, presented by both old and young newsreaders sat firmly behind desks, casting aside all of this gimmickery? I long for that day........