Must say how impressed I have been with how Stuart Flinders has done solo this evening with this Breaking Story about the Bosnian war crimes person being arrested.
He's just been joined by Big Al (Alastair Yates) to double head the rest of the evening.
Big Story and the News Channel has done a good job of covering it! Well done.
Must say how impressed I have been with how Steven Flinders has done solo this evening with this Breaking Story about the Bosnian war crimes person being arrested.
He's just been joined by Big Al (Alastair Yates) to double head the rest of the evening.
Big Story and the News Channel has done a good job of covering it! Well done.
Was just about to say the same thing, excellent coverage and interviews tonight from the NC. The addition of Alastair Yates was a good decision, with the amount of interviews going on.
Another question, in the relation to the show 'The Record' - why does it always seem like the image is all grany, blury and shadowy when they show the presenter seemingly in the Westminster Newsroom, it looks terrible.
Another question, in the relation to the show 'The Record' - why does it always seem like the image is all grany, blury and shadowy when they show the presenter seemingly in the Westminster Newsroom, it looks terrible.
Not seen it in a while so not sure what they are doing these days, they used to present from green screen where the presenter perched on something to make it look like they actually were sitting on the edge of the desk. I always thought it was a nice idea but let down by the poor quality background image.
Why, though - can't the on-shift news channel presenter present the News Summaries or Bulletins on BBC one and the News channel at the weekends? We leave Sophie Long and Chris Lowe and then Joanna Gosling pops up... it's a 10-15 minute news summary - why does it need a separate presenter doing the bulletin.... whats wrong with Chris Lowe (who at the end of the day a main bulletin presenter in the past) or even Sophie Long presenting it?
Quite a few of the BBC One presenters actually write their own scripts, have briefing chats with the reporters they are going to interview, and discuss headline pictures etc. This is particularly important in a short bulletin - where each item is timed to a tight schedule (unlike the News Channel that just drops or adds items to keep to time - and fills hours with interviews)
It would be difficult for the weekend presenters to do this if they were on-air on the News Channel at the time they'd normally be preparing their bulletins. (Naturally structuring an interview on BBC One in 1'15" can be a lot more difficult than doing an interview on the News Channel in 5'00"...)
There is also the issue - less-so than previously - that there is a small family of BBC One news presenters - who mainstream BBC One viewers are familiar with, and associate with the news. This family is relatively small (though slightly larger and with less focus on a particular weekday time than it once was) but I think BBC One are keen not to widen the presenting pool too much - so would rather not just bung on the News Channel presenter who happens to be around at the time...
There is also the issue - less-so than previously - that there is a small family of BBC One news presenters - who mainstream BBC One viewers are familiar with, and associate with the news. This family is relatively small (though slightly larger and with less focus on a particular weekday time than it once was) but I think BBC One are keen not to widen the presenting pool too much - so would rather not just bung on the News Channel presenter who happens to be around at the time...
I'm sorry, but if you examine this argument it does tend to fall apart rather quickly. If you look at who's presented weekend bulletins over the last six months and compare it to those who've been on duty on the News Channel at the same time, I think you'll find that the NC has a far more consistent pool of presenters than BBC One.
BBC One seem to stick anyone on, while at the weekend on the News Channel it's virtually always either Tim Willcox, Peter Sissons or Nicholas Owen.
