BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

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I think that the BBC handled the news yesterday very well. Going back to Orlando briefly and generally with these kinds of conflicts, I think it's hard being a channel controller and you have two important pieces of news that matter to a domestic audience. Whatever the BBC did, someone will complain. I know one is available elsewhere but some will have tuned in.

The difficulty comes when trying to serve two different audiences simultaneously. The Orlando story is just as big for World viewers but for the UK it's a minor footnote compared to the Jo Cox story.

The short sightedness of trying to merge the two services is highlighted by events like these.

Interesting choice the BBC News channel did there. Instead of showing the actual feed of Tim Peake landing, they filmed a tv screen showing it and so we saw the presenter stand infront of it at times and drink from his bottle. Why not just take the feed?

I been watching World for 15 years and News 24 now News channel since 1998, a merger will never work

Completely agree.

There was, until a few months ago, a joint BBC News / World News bulletin from 0900-0915 weekdays. Because it was produced by the News Channel team, it was heavily uk focussed and led to the top of the hour on world featuring regional flooding in Cumbria on more than one occasion and little else. That story was massive for those involved, a great picture story for the uk news channel and was supplemented by sat trucks galore. But for a world audience, 12 minutes of down-the-lines from all over the north of England was out of kilter with what was also happening with the migrant crisis. After Derbyshire started, and world had taken the commercial break, the 0915-26 part of the bulletin was back to the usual World content.
A real example of the difficulties faced by the production team trying to serve two very different remits and audiences.

The same is true for the 9pm bulletin as well, as certain stories won't get the same amount of coverage as in other bulletins.

Dateline London was recorded at 1130, but is now scheduled for 1530.

The weekly syndicated version of Newsnight that airs on PBS stations in the US didn't have anything on Brexit. Despite KCET playing out their Newsnight open a show called "The Forgotten Girls of Dhaka" aired in its place.

The Newsnight would have probably been recorded during the week like the weekly BBC World version is.

I assume it's the same edition and PBS take it from World. Its premiere normally goes out at 23:30 BST on a Friday on BBC World but last week was replaced by Panorama and this week replaced by the documentary mentioned above.