BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Thought they were meant to be getting rid of pointless on location presentation. Afternoon Live this afternoon is coming entirely from Westminster despite covering as little as 15 minutes of Brexit related stories each hour.

Clearly that idea has now gone out the window!

I guess you're talking about the show slugs? They did this for Newsroom Live when it started but it was dropped shortly after launch. No idea why.

Surprised BBC Breakfast still doesn't have a ticker or flipper.

The ticker doesn't really add much most of the time, they don't use it to its full potential and it's often an afterthought with stories not updated as they develop.

Or the same handful of context-less headlines copy-and-pasted from website stories going round for hours at the weekends.

I'm amazed at some of the randomness that befalls the ticker from time to time.

"Chinese man prosthetic leg".

What's that all about?

I don't understand why they keep the ticker on when it has next-to-useless headlines like that taken from the website. It'd be better if they just turned it off.

Weren't BBC News supposed to be 'refreshing' their on air look with new aston and ticker designs? Is that still happening? And if so, when?

Check page 290, there was some discussion about it earlier this week.

The overnight ticker on the channel this weekend has had an obvious spelling error. Twitter in the ticker was spelt Twiter, alongside the box heading for Interactive being out of place.

I don't think I've ever seen a live report filmed by selfie stick before (it was more obvious in motion, of course):



Needs must, I suppose...

It was done via Ulive using a smartphone.