BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

I don't understand why they're going on summer hiatus - there's so much news going on both sides of the Atlantic. If it's a matter about holidays why not stagger the anchors schedules. Then again it does seem like many U.K. news shows go off air for a few months this time of year.

I suspect the real reason is budgetary. The show was only supposed to last 100 days, and it's gone beyond that anyway. I'm not sure how much contingency budget BBC News have, but it's been an expensive few months with domestic matters.

Lots of shows go on a summer break - particularly UK political shows. (Mainly because the UK Parliament goes into recess. Do US political institutions like Senate and Congress have a summer break?)

Yes, they do have a summer break from Congress, but they're often fundraising for the next election, so the US political shows don't tend to take a Summer break. The President doesn't take an official summer break, but often spend some holiday time during this period.

I've said this a couple of times before but can't believe that it's still happening. The BBC News overnight ticker is an absolute disgrace. I know it's from an RSS feed but it shouldn't be. Most of the stories don't make sense or offer absolutely nothing other than the most basic detail.

#rantover

I've said before it would make more sense for the feed to take the top lines from the articles - they summarise the story much better than the headlines.

I mean, that might be a bit better, but there should be a text producer overnight so that there's no form of automation, imo.

Or… just turn off the ticker overnight?

Any viewers annoyed by the ticker overnight could put gaffer tape over it.

Or... ticker tape?

YES YES YES