BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Karin Giannone posted that she’s in New Delhi. BBC has a decent studio there with a similar desk.

I’d link but her Instagram is private and I was “grandfathered” in as I follow before she went private.

Here are two pics of the studio from twitter.

Just like the #BBCOS touchscreen...but in Hindi. Feeling at home here in the BBC Delhi studio working with great and talented colleagues pic.twitter.com/7GBVKBU7kh

— Karin Giannone (@KarinBBC) April 26, 2018

With Newsroom Live replacing VD due to election coverage, it was nice to have a proper wheel of news with sport and business between 9-11 instead of the usual human interest fluff.

So much better wasn't it rather than the usual two hours of absolute misery, given up having it on in the office now switch to SKY News instead

Which brings us back to a post i made back in December about getting rid of the Victoria Derbyshire progame and extending Newsroom Live to start at 9:00. https://tvforum.uk/forums/post1091986#post-1091986

Not that the powers that be will listen and we will still be here making this suggestion this time next year.

Just extending rolling news to earlier in the morning doesn't address the reasons Derbyshire exists, which beyond the oft-cited simulcast cost savings, is about reaching an audience who wouldn't otherwise engage with BBC News.

I think it does because some of the cuts we're all in the wrong places in the first and this was 1 one of them

That and make 'lovely films' that win awards that hardly anyone watches as they're watching other programming on BBC1, ITV or C5 in the same timeslot.

The point I'm making is if you'd rather be watching rolling news, you're probably not in News's sights with Derbyshire; it's not really 'for' you. It's just one way to try broaden News's reach, even if a larger (already well-served) audience would watch a hard news alternative in the same slot.

Broadening the reach would be good, if it was done in the right way, but frankly, it isn't. It's just same old tired BBC News style just with a "female-targetted" agenda, which frankly seems to be about as on target as an archer failing to hit the broad side of a castle! A very different style of programme and presentation is needed to make that work, and Victoria Derbyshire is not it.

Newswatch did a piece tonight about Question Time. They managed to use the old discontinued purple branding on text overlay.

There's no hope!

Looks like the other half of The Newsroom (i.e the works in the newsroom that were started at Easter Weekend) is getting done this weekend as the late shift has decamped to Studio A following The Ten this Evening-Looks like D will be being pressed into service again this Bank Holiday Weekend.

I notice one of the new bulbs has already blown on the side which was already done.