The Newsroom

BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Split from BBC News Channel General Discussion (March 2016)

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RN
Rolling News
Whilst Newsroom Live and Afternoon Live are both brilliant inventions, I'm afraid to say that neither Derbyshire or Outside Source should be simulcast on the News Channel. Fine on their respective BBC Two and BBC World platforms, but shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the NC.
Ittr, GMc and News96 gave kudos
MB
Media Boy
Afternoon Live on location for the first time (?) with Simon McCoy in Westminster.

Bet he finds that rather pointless. Not long now though till he's stood outside a hospital.


Pointless? Who's idea do you think it was to do the show from there?
:-(
A former member
I don't mind OS, it's more newsy than Derbyshire.

YET that Derbyshire programme is covering more hit harding topics than the one, six and ten.
NE
News96
I don't mind OS, it's more newsy than Derbyshire.

YET that Derbyshire programme is covering more hit harding topics than the one, six and ten.


And yet it's not a proper breaking news program (and i will keep saying this til someone finally listens)!
JA
james-2001
I wake up this morning, but the TV on and see Victoria Derbyshire spending 10 minutes waffling on about Strictly with Len Goodman, only finding out Stephen Hawking had died when it finally scrolled across the bottom of the screen. This is one of the reasons I can't stand the VD show.
SS
SuperSajuuk
Who's using Studio E when the News Channel is normally simulcasting OS, apart from people prepping for News at 10 nearer 9.30pm?


You've answered your own question.

I just assumed that it'd only take a short amount of time (like 30 mins) to prepare for the News at 10, which made it weird the evening NC presenter had to shift to the GS studio for 25 mins or so. They'd be better off just simulcasting World News entirely for that hour and make things easier. :shrug:

I actually think the Studio A set looks less fake than it did in 2013.

Would agree it's more realistic now, I guess they don't like the idea of presenters sitting in a green-screen room for hours on end, hence it's lack of use :shrug:


As for the people talking about OS: it's an alright show, at least it utilises a touch-screen to present its news, instead of just the generic presentation of a person sitting in a studio and reading from a camera/paper, it makes the programme more interactive to the viewer with presentation of information. Just wished the format hadn't changed so that UK viewers don't get any sports bulletin at all until 10.30pm!
RN
Rolling News
Few problems at the start of the News at One, firstly Jane's microphone wasn't working at the start of the headlines, also the Newsroom Live graphic was still on the screens. Now all fixed with Jane apologising.
IT
Ittr
NC not taking the One today, despite the listings. It's instead showing House of Commons live.
IS
Inspector Sands
That's usual when there's a major live event happening
IT
Ittr
News Channel appears to be taking the whole of WNA tonight. This is a change to the listed schedule.
SW
Steve Williams
I wake up this morning, but the TV on and see Victoria Derbyshire spending 10 minutes waffling on about Strictly with Len Goodman, only finding out Stephen Hawking had died when it finally scrolled across the bottom of the screen. This is one of the reasons I can't stand the VD show.


This is a bit unfair. Len Goodman was on Victoria Derbyshire at 9.55. The news of Stephen Hawking's death broke overnight, so BBC News had been covering it since at least 6am, and sad story though it was, I don't think it deserved to be getting continuous rolling coverage some four hours later. For the vast majority of the audience, that would have been old news. It's a shame if you hadn't heard it by then but I'm not sure BBC News can be held responsible for that. You'd have certainly seen it on the ticker several times within that ten minutes.

They were giving it plenty of coverage at the top of the hour. At 10am they were playing his obituary and had long interviews. But I don't know what you were expecting at five minutes to the hour. Every hour on BBC News, Sky News and all other channels do the lighter items at that time. Len Goodman wasn't on there to talk about Strictly - he was there because he's fronting a campaign to stop old people being scammed. Not the most exciting story, I grant you, but a viable news story and I would certainly suggest of more importance than most of the stories you would get at five minutes to the hour on a news channel. On Fridays the News at Five devotes the last fifteen minutes of the hour to The Film Review, for example.

Besides, if you'd switched on exactly an hour earlier you wouldn't have heard much coverage because they were doing Business Live, and if you'd switched to Sky News you wouldn't have heard much coverage because they'd have been doing All Out Politics.

You can hardly take issue with Victoria Derbyshire because you tuned it at five to the hour and they weren't talking about the top story. Unless it's a major story no news channel does that in any hour. It's like complaining News at Ten didn't cover the top story because you switched on when they were doing the And Finally.

The Derbyshire programme covers breaking news, when it breaks. But this wasn't breaking news. It was several hours old.
JA
james-2001
Still doesn't change the fact that VD is often a load of total crap when many of us just want to see proper news.

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