BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

I'd like to see the globe from different angles* in the current 3D environment, it would keep it fresh.

*not the way they do it for shows like WNA, that's just the same view (front) but zoomed in on different areas of the globe.

Amazing how the current graphics still look brilliant after 5 years yet the set that came before (in 2008) looked outdated on the first day.

Many of us can remember when News 24 first launched. Plenty of members here weren't even born then (probably including Skyqhater)

News 24 launched the day after my 6th birthday. So I for one was born but certainly can't remember it!

Come on now, I was six when the moon landing happened, and I can still remember that (Not that N24's launch was quite as momentous !)

We've basically had the same title look for almost 10 years now. The only thing that really changed in 2013 was the lower thirds, and that was it. Graphically, I feel like we've had the same basic look for almost 10 years, with the most minor of refreshes 5 years ago, which really wasn't that much of a refresh.

To my eyes, the whole thing looks positively stale, and yet in that time ITV News has refreshed twice, and probably needs a refresh soon, though I would say, not a major change required there. BBC News on the other hand, looks so stale, that it needs a major change of look.

Seems like the new MeteoGroup system is still having hiccups... The weather system just crashed during the 1358 weather report, the director then abruptly cut to the countdowns.

I want the Met Office back, this winter was going just fine until MeteoGroup turned up !

Strange thing is though I can remember Channel 5 launching about 8 months before, even though I was only 5 at the time I remember my dad trying to get a signal! We weren't much of a BBC household to be honest.

Did you have cable TV though? ISTR that BBC News 24 was initially only available on analogue cable. I certainly didn't see the launch as we had analogue Sky satellite TV until 2000. It was only when we upgraded to Sky Digital in 2000 that I saw BBC News 24 for the first time.


Incidentally, the first TV channel I ever remember launching was the Disney Channel in 1995. That must have been shortly after we got Sky TV. I do remember us getting that installed - before that I'd only ever had access to the 4 terrestrial channels - suddenly my world got so much larger in an instant! I remember my dad took great delight in watching CNN because it was all the way from the USA and it was novel to have something like that in our own front room. And I was hooked on Cartoon Network.

Amazing how times change - we can now get pretty much anything from anywhere at the touch of an internet-connected device that fits in the palm of our hands. I was talking to some first year students at work the other week and I mentioned how my first internet connection was dial-up that downloaded web pages line by line (which, of course, had to be saved for offline reading later to save money) and blocked the telephone line from incoming calls while it was active. They looked at me like I had two heads...

That's not really surprising, if you struggled to get Channel 5 then definitely wouldn't have been able to get News 24 let alone remember it launch. It was cable only until the digital platforms launched the following year.


At 5 I imagine you weren't staying up for BBC1's closedowns

He might have been there at 05:58 hrs for BBC 1's start ups though ?