BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

The opening slide of Breakfast this morning looked fantastic with the darkness of Westminster in the background.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there is a delay, due to the protesters nearby, incase anything happens.

It's very rare to do that, usually only when there are unpredictable pictures coming in from an external source like an agency.

It's not done for a live like that and the logistics of delaying by a few seconds are enough, let alone 8 minutes.

8 minutes was a long time in politics yesterday!

Plus if they were actually on a delay the fault would never have got to air as someone in the gallery would have noticed it.

It’s just a piece bars n tone on a piece of equipment where accurate times not mission critical. The screen bars probably only appear in the multiviewer when it’s starting up or no source and not worth connecting it to the time code system. It’s not like they’re going off that time.

I can only presume that the wild fires in California and all other stories are less newsworthy than an average week of cinema releases...

Nope!

We've just had one of those weekend BBC One News bulletins at 17:05 plus a news channel full top of hour at 17:00 moment.

Carole Walker read the top of hour headlines, full titles played, a short intro into a 1 minute Dominic Raab piece on Marr only for the filler to play, Mishal pops up with the same headlines and intro again on the BBC One simulcast, so news channel viewers were greeted with the same headlines sequence and opening script twice in 3 minutes.

Carole Walker on rare weekend duty... hopefully Shaun will turn up later.

Carole Walker quite often relief presents at the weekend. It’s only really mornings and late nights that are consistent at the weekend, afternoons can be pretty much anyone.

This sort of thing really is twattery of the highest order. They should either drag out stuff in the preceding NC hour to delay the TOTH until xx:05, or never schedule BBC One weekend/holiday bulletins with start times anywhere between e.g. xx:01 and xx:15 (so that the NC can at least have a decent quarter-hour stride, between a TOTH and having to "restart" for the benefit of BBC One).

Maybe if the TOTH headlines themselves didn't last a fortnight, even the awkward 5-minute difference might not be so bad.

If they must insist on having BBC One bulletins at xx:05 but also don't want to delay the TOTH, then they should go straight from the countdown to the title sequence with no preceding headlines. Then treat the 5-minute NC slot as a self-contained snappy bulletin that whizzes through several main stories in brief (a bit like the weekday Breakfast regional bulletins).

Or maybe they just shouldn’t simulcast such a short and awkwardly-timed bulletin in the first place?