BBC News Channel: Presentation

I think the issue is more audiences, those who listen to the news on radio 4 will listen to the news regardless.

News on TV is aimed at a larger audience, and audience whom in part needs to be captivated and engaged better by the news, and this is where the more ott pres comes in.

It's all very well going "oh its not needed" but if nobody watched, then the BBC isn't doing its job properly.

I think the music is vitally important to TV news. For continuous news, it breaks up the monotony of the channel. Imagine News 24 with absolutely no music - hour upon hour of just voices. It would become very tiresome. Music (especially the type of music that David Lowe does) helps to make the channel feel more pacey. If the channel just consisted of people talking, it would feel a lot more sluggish.

If you think that PM has theme music you haven't listened for about a decade!

(It was a great jingle, though)

Ha!, I normally come in on it at about 5:30, so you're right.

Anyway, I wonder why they dropped it ?

Absolutely BRILLIANT TOH there putting a picture of the main story behind the presenters about the GAZA Issue, made a much welcome change to the newsroom backdrop - BRILLIANT, please do that more often - makes excellent use of the screens. WELL DONE 10/10!

Can't they do this with the Top Story at the top of every hour.

I never said it makes it more exciting! Music adds atmosphere to the environment rather than just a voice reading a story. News programmes have to engage with their audience, music is one way of doing this as it can add depth to the mood/feeling of whats being told. Just having someone reading the news with nothing else isn't very inspirational either.

Calm down Worzel. Deep breaths, now.

Newswatch is such a waste of time it really is.

I must admit, it doesn't really feature anything of any significance.

Ooooh, check out the eerie lighting on Rachel Schofield right now....

Yeah, I thought i'd switched on to Living and it was Most Haunted!

To be honest that looked awful.

It was totally the wrong set of image's. (Although the middle image was great.)
Chin's in the top left above Stuart's head -the triple split images not centered - and the opening camera shot should have been much wider to start so we could have digested what the images were (could you work out what the images on the left and right were?) - before they tightened.
It could have been so much nicer if they had thought about positioning and used the one main image of the explosion and kept slightly wider...