Ouch a rather frosty exchange between Alastair Darling and Louise Minchin on the one o'clock news. First he couldn't hear her first question so then she seemed to get rather narked demanding a date that we would see an end to banker's bonuses.
It made me smile though.
I liked it when he said "I'm going to tell you now. Can I talk?" and Louis remarked "Go on..." but he still didn't give a date...
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I think the News Channel studio would look nice if they displayed a graphic background instead of a fake newsroom.
I know this had probably been asked before but what goes out on BBC World from 2130-2200? Also does world show the programmes that the NC does in the second half of the hour through the night?
I know this had probably been asked before but what goes out on BBC World from 2130-2200? Also does world show the programmes that the NC does in the second half of the hour through the night?
BBC World shows Hard Talk between 2130 and 2200. The channel takes the 2130 headlines (read by the News 24 presenter) and then goes off on its own. Overnight, World shows its own programmes in back half hours.
Oops! A pound in the swear box from nick higham I think after his news 24 slip of the tongue at 3.30. You'd think people would have got used to it now. How long has it been since the change?
I don't think it matters to be honest. Everyone outside the BBC calls it News 24 anyway - in fact, they even do it on things like Radio 1 when mentioning it casually.
It will always be News 24, regardless of what the powers that be try to do. You can't change the fact that for 9 years it was called BBC News 24. People tend to stick with what they know. I still hear people refer to North West Tonight as "Look North" and Granada learnt their lesson as well - they changed the much-loved Granada Reports name to "Granada Tonight". Thankfully, they eventually saw the error of their ways and changed it back.
As for the BBC, I think it was a mistake to rename it BBC News/Channel. Pre-2008, everything was consistent. Now, the on-screen graphics and EPG says "BBC News", whereas the presenters sometimes call it the "BBC News Channel". It's long winded and sounds wrong. To my knowledge, they were the first broadcaster to come up with the "24" as a news brand (later copied by France 24) and they should have stuck with it. I can understand BBC World changing to "BBC World News" because it coincided with a push to make the channel more news-centric. When I first started watching BBC World in 2000, a great deal of the back half hours (and especially at weekends) were filled with non-news programmes. I remember they used to show "Great Railway Journeys", "Top Gear" and "Rough Science" at that time! So, when the channel's emphasis moved further towards rolling news, it was a sensible idea to make that fact more obvious in the channel's name. But for News 24, it was a petty decision. They just didn't like the idea that too many people dropped the "BBC" from the name. It wasn't thought through and it was poorly implemented.
