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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

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radiolistener
Two stories just now in a row that aren't news.

Some dancer gets beaten up shocker.

New TV programme for dance on BBC One shocker.

Sometimes 24/7 news just isn't worth the investment.
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Whataday Founding member
Just because something doesn't interest you personally, doesn't mean it's not newsworthy.
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itsrobert Founding member
I do have an issue with BBC News actively cross promoting other BBC, generally light entertainment, shows. I don't mind trails between the weather and the next junction, but to routinely have items and features about BBC shows as part of the news is stretching it a bit. It just smacks of self-importance.
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radiolistener
Two stories just now in a row that aren't news.

Some dancer gets beaten up shocker.

New TV programme for dance on BBC One shocker.

Sometimes 24/7 news just isn't worth the investment.

Whataday posted:
Just because something doesn't interest you personally, doesn't mean it's not newsworthy.


Plugging TV programmes on the same network is not newsworthy whatsoever. It's advertising, not cross promoting, something that they are NOT supposed to do.

The story about the dancer, again, only "as news" because he features on one of their shows. People get beaten up every single day. Again, not news. It's editorial. It's network editorial.
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radiolistener
itsrobert posted:
I do have an issue with BBC News actively cross promoting other BBC, generally light entertainment, shows. I don't mind trails between the weather and the next junction, but to routinely have items and features about BBC shows as part of the news is stretching it a bit. It just smacks of self-importance.


It's worse than that. It's abusing the BBC's privilege of having so much of the bandwidth of TV and radio - no wonder the commercial companies get annoyed.
harshy, chevron and itsrobert gave kudos
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London Lite Founding member
itsrobert posted:
I do have an issue with BBC News actively cross promoting other BBC, generally light entertainment, shows. I don't mind trails between the weather and the next junction, but to routinely have items and features about BBC shows as part of the news is stretching it a bit. It just smacks of self-importance.


I can just about tolerate it on Breakfast in the back 45 mins when it's only on BBC One, yet it's frustrating on BBC News. ITV regional news is also another outlet where it's used to cross-promote a drama or reality format.
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Andrew Founding member
They were on about Greatest Dancer on Breakfast this morning as well, at about 7:50am. I didn’t realise they were doing items on it on the actual BBC News as well. How did they manage to put it into context to make it sound like news rather than an item on This Morning?
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Moz
JamesWorldNews posted:
Jay Lee posted:
Moz posted:
I’m surprised they haven’t made the main BBC homepage Reith yet. You’d have thought as it’s only one page, and the shop front, they’d used the ‘new face of the BBC’ there by now!


I could be wrong but I could have sworn around this time last year either James Mobbs or Chris Cook (or someone else of their ilk at the BBC) hinted at Reith being rolled out across BBC News by November, as in end of 2018. Obviously we should never take such Tweets as gospel! Unless I have mis-remembered.


How dare you call them an elk! And, may I remind you, you only get a gnu with Ty-Phoo.

Oh, Ilk. You said Ilk. Sorry.

A font is a font. The vast majority of the viewing public won't even know their Arial from their Wingdings.


But it's not just a font - BBC News will get totally redesigned lower thirds.
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AlexS
Ben Brown was interviewed from the anchors position in studio E during beyond 100 days (from C as normal) this evening, on the topic of Liverpool vs Man City.
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Matrix
Moz posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:
Jay Lee posted:

I could be wrong but I could have sworn around this time last year either James Mobbs or Chris Cook (or someone else of their ilk at the BBC) hinted at Reith being rolled out across BBC News by November, as in end of 2018. Obviously we should never take such Tweets as gospel! Unless I have mis-remembered.


How dare you call them an elk! And, may I remind you, you only get a gnu with Ty-Phoo.

Oh, Ilk. You said Ilk. Sorry.

A font is a font. The vast majority of the viewing public won't even know their Arial from their Wingdings.


But it's not just a font - BBC News will get totally redesigned lower thirds.


I also seem to recall Chris Cook posting on Twitter that David Lowe was working on a new package (in reference to the 10 as well as the rest of output).
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Worzel
Matrix posted:
Moz posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:

How dare you call them an elk! And, may I remind you, you only get a gnu with Ty-Phoo.

Oh, Ilk. You said Ilk. Sorry.

A font is a font. The vast majority of the viewing public won't even know their Arial from their Wingdings.


But it's not just a font - BBC News will get totally redesigned lower thirds.


I also seem to recall Chris Cook posting on Twitter that David Lowe was working on a new package (in reference to the 10 as well as the rest of output).


Hopefully they'll do something to sort out the news channel long titles with the awkward 'spinning globe while the music catches up at the end, visuals don't fit' situation. It's poor that it hasn't been fixed after 4 years and isn't that difficult to sort out.
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SuperSajuuk
Reeta Chakrabarti on Afternoon Live, but that only seems to have been for the first hour, as at 3pm, it was Ben Brown. It sounds like it was unexpected, because Darren Bett's pre-recorded weather sequence for TOTH was referring to the host as though Reeta was there. Given that last point, I guess she had to leave the studio unexpectedly Sad
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