The Newsroom

BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

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Jarv
London Lite posted:
VD felt like they tried to squash two hours worth of guests into 57 minutes. No longer headlines on the half hour or a sports bulletin with a casual dressed presenter and still very human interest skewed with features on gender identity and people on learning difficulties dying earlier. Now feels even more out of place, considering it's sandwiched between rolling news hours.

The 9am hour is most welcome and a massive improvement on the output on 9am last Friday.

Agree, its so much better to have news on a news channel in the morning, echo the points above if the NC presenter is there for two hours now why not just scrap VD completely? Does any body actually enjoy this misery fest?
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Brekkie
Worzel posted:
Generally I thought the bulletin worked well.

Would have preferred to see better use of the catwalk (it wasn't used at all!).


Would have liked to see them venture out of their comfort zone and have some proper presentation from out in the newsroom or from the weather balcony (apart from the weather itself!).

It's a 9am bulletin - back to basics does the job. It is what the news channel needs more of really - a straight forward bulletin at the top of the hour with more tailored features in the back half hour.


As for the catwalk - it still looks awful on screen IMO with the three screen set up - it really should be one continuous screen, whether real or green screen
LS
Lou Scannon
Brekkie posted:
As for the catwalk - it still looks awful on screen IMO with the three screen set up - it really should be one continuous screen, whether real or green screen


The worst thing about the three screens is that when e.g. a story-specific image is spread across either two or all three of them, it doesn't factor in the width of the screen frames/surrounds.

You might get, say, the left-hand 50% of a person or object on one screen and the right-hand 50% on the next screen, when in fact a certain middle section of the image should be "behind" the screen frames.

If the screens themselves were frameless ones, with separate vertical "window frame" bits of the set added on afterwords to cover the narrow seams between screens (like the ITV regions' faux windows), then this visual quirk would be avoided.
SW
Steve Williams
Jarv posted:
Agree, its so much better to have news on a news channel in the morning, echo the points above if the NC presenter is there for two hours now why not just scrap VD completely? Does any body actually enjoy this misery fest?


Regardless of the merits, or otherwise, of the Derbyshire programme, I don't know why people keep referring to it as a "misery fest", as if the rest of the channel's output is a laugh riot. It's the news. News is generally bad.
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Ste Founding member
Faisal Islam has left Sky News to join BBC as economics editor - https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/faisal-islam
HA
harshy Founding member
BBC news channel lower thirds seems to have moved up a few pixels compared to World in fact you see more picture at the bottom compared to bbc world Surprised

Maybe someone can produce those simulcast videos to prove this.
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Worzel
harshy posted:
BBC news channel lower thirds seems to have moved up a few pixels compared to World in fact you see more picture at the bottom compared to bbc world Surprised

Maybe someone can produce those simulcast videos to prove this.


I also notice someone's finally adjusted the automation template for the Afternoon Live seated TOTH sequence so the final clap is in time with the camera crossfade to the presenter, rather than it being out of sequence and lagging.
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harshy Founding member
Worzel posted:
harshy posted:
BBC news channel lower thirds seems to have moved up a few pixels compared to World in fact you see more picture at the bottom compared to bbc world Surprised

Maybe someone can produce those simulcast videos to prove this.


I also notice someone's finally adjusted the automation template for the Afternoon Live seated TOTH sequence so the final clap is in time with the camera crossfade to the presenter, rather than it being out of sequence and lagging.


I hope they sort out Newsroom Live the whole sequence doesn’t seem to flow as well.
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AlexS
A repeat of News at Nine is currently listed at 10am tomorrow on the news channel rather than the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
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News96
Are sure it's not just a typo as it's still down to air tomorrow according to this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbcnews/20181109
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kernow
It must be a mistake in the listings for the BBC News channel.

According to Digiguide, the BBC News channel is showing the BBC News at 9 at 10am tomorrow, but the BBC2 listings show Victoria Derbyshire at 10am tomorrow.
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gordonthegopher
AlexS posted:
A repeat of News at Nine is currently listed at 10am tomorrow on the news channel rather than the Victoria Derbyshire programme.

I think the BBC NEWS at 9 lasts 2 hours on a Friday as they don't want to call it BBC NEWS at 10 as that is in evening.

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