BBC News Channel - changes announced

There was talk that the balcony and touch screen would be used as part of that segment. Just a guess, but i'd imagine some newsroom elements will be presented in a similar way to this - especially with them wanting to attract a 'younger audience'.

It would be interesting to see NEWSROOM LIVE presented in a looser format. Back during the 2nd Gulf War (I think), I remember CNN grouped all the producers working on that story in one area of the newsroom of CNN Centre and they would unleash the anchor to wander up and down the aisle talking with the producers as the story was breaking live. It was interesting and compelling to watch. Something a bit different than the usual anchor behind the desk presentation. Watching that 1st video that has since been replaced was interesting. Too bad the guy conducting the interview stumbled constantly and could barely string a sentence together. And of course the segment ends with the obligatory ..."Thank you very much indeed". Eeek. Ross that presents OS is a bit smoother. If its a loose format, they need to make sure the presenter can think on his or her feet and speak without using a autocue. (A bit of pet peeve of mine, is when you can tell a presenter is bumbling through just normal speaking and conversation, and then they settle and start reading the autocue. Ugh. I think the BBC's Katty Kay is quite good at talking without bumbling her way through without all the Uhhhs. Also Mike Embley is quite good as well. Mike is wasted in my opinion.)

By contrast I do see the Newsnight repeat lasting as such. I wouldn't be too surprised if sometime in the future though if it's rescheduled so it's no longer a repeat but is a simulcast. Then given more time potentially even become a 'news channel only' programme.

Pure guess, but air a pre-recorded 15 minute show at 2345? There is the Film Review, Newswatch and the 15 minute versions of Click, the Travel Show (and Reporters?) to choose from

Sorry, here it is again...

I haven't seen those newsroom interviews on World for quite a while now, possibly a year unless if they've been doing them on GMT and the standard bulletins preceding GMT. The only two shows that do/did these that I'm aware of were Impact and Global. I've seen other channels use such an approach but it didn't last long for them.

They were used more regularly when both services moved to NBH, but like many of the new ideas they had when they moved they fizzled out within a few weeks or months. It's like the joined up coverage between the World Services and the Television News Channels that never really happened or Studio A that is now used once in a blue moon or Newsnight using Studio B creatively rather than the lighting blackout Katz has imposed on them. Also I think the VD programme is single-handedly using up the entire gimmick budget.

Initially Business alive would go up to the business news room. Instead of going to people's individuals desks they used a reporter standing at a TV showing the screen and graphs of the Bloomberg Terminal. After a while those shots were gone. Bloomberg is very sensitive about their terminals and the data provided. They probably weren't to happy that some of it was shown on international TV.

RadioTimes have the provisional schedules up now from 18th March at least the changes are in effect. The order of Sportsday and the Papers has been reversed, couldn't they do a 30 minute editon with a summary on the hour?

People are mentioning here about simulcasts and a516 had an article yesterday about BBC World News at 25 and how there were simulcasts of an hour daily when the News Channel launched.

Sportsday seems to directly follow the 10, same as the 6.

It turns out we have this schedule for the next 2 weeks (starting Monday) as the US change their Clocks tomorrow.

Surely that was more an off-air thing? The idea being that now they were in the same building those making working on the domestic news would actually talk to those on the World Service and exchange their knowledge.


In the past there were complaints that when there was a story happening in some not very well known part of, say, Africa they'd not think to ask their colleagues at Bush House, and in some cases even get in a journalist from elsewhere to talk on air