BBC News Channel: Presentation

Oh yes, sorry. So it's kept the same every other pattern.

A while ago, someone on here posted some pictures from a booklet or sheet showing an artists impression of what the studios would look like once completed, with a presenter photoshopped on them.

Does anyone have a link to the pics? I only ask as it would be interesting to see (come Monday) how close the artists impressions were to the final look.

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post747340#post-747340

Weekend 24 was on as late as 2005
http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/bbc2s-saturday-morning-schedule-revamp-needed-14752/

Although that thread has it being on 6-10am, I thought it was Breakfast to 9am, or at the very least there was a presenter change for the last hour? I'm sure Bill Turnbull stayed on and was joined by Carrie Gracie for the last hour?

Weekend 24 was 8-9am was it not? I cant remember if it moved to 9am when Breakfast launched but I didnt think it did as sometimes there was a short news summary at 9am after it on BBC Two. However Weekend 24 always had the same presenters as Breakfast or prior to the days of Breakfast it always had the BBC News 24 breakfast shift presenters mainly David Robertson & Tanya Beckett.

Yes that's right, and by that point Weekend 24 was just News 24, but simulcast on BBC2 (and Bill Turbull stayed on). It was a very different programme to the very relaxed programme that it began as.

Then, I think soon after the swap with CBBC, moving to BBC1, it all became Breakfast, which seemed like the most sensible thing.

I remember in 2005 (maybe as late as early 2006), Bill would present the 'Breakfast' branded programme with Susanna between 6 and 9, and then Carrie (who had a stint as Saturday morning presenter on News 24) would join him between 9 and 10. They welcomed viewers to 'Weekend 24,' but it was branded as a regular News 24 hour - and then eventually the common sense answer was to keep 'Breakfast' on until 10 with the same presenters.

That studio brings back bad memories I used to compare it with bbc world and how lively the newsroom atmosphere and felt more like a news channel then 24 did, hell i even hated news 24s theme tune when it started off with an elephant horn!, fast forward to 2013 and it looks like it will be the other way round with bbc news having a real newsroom backdrop.

Yes, it began at the beginning of 1998, on Saturdays at 8-9am. I remember someone saying at the tme it had been introduced as people were complaining nobody could see News 24 in those days so it was a chance for terrestrial viewers to see it in a more civilised slot than just overnights. The reason it was only 8-9am was because there was Open University programmes either side of it. It wasn't on Sundays as MOTD, Breakfast with Frost, the OU and kids' shows were all in the way.

It was after 9/11 that it became a regular thing on both Saturday and Sunday mornings, it was initially there just as more rolling news but they just kept it, helped by OU programmes being phased out. As you mention, it was indeed still billed as Weekend 24 on Saturdays - but not Sundays - long after Breakfast had launched. Looking in 2005, though, we then had Breakfast 6-9 and Weekend 24 billed as a separate thing from 9-10.

There were a few other experiments on Saturday morning, in the summer of 2004 they moved the kids shows to BBC2 (eighteen months before they moved there full time) and did a thing on BBC1 at 9am called In The Know with John Inverdale and Louise Minchin which was simulcast on News 24 and interspersed the news with sports previews and features, but it was all a bit of a mess and Invers later said it wasn't very good. And also around 2004, the BBC political review, which also saw the end of On The Record and the launch of The Politics Show and This Week, suggested they should launch a political show aimed at a younger audience so at 9am on Saturday on BBC2 you had Weekend With Rod Liddle And Kate Silverton and The Sharp End with Clive Anderson for a couple of weeks each, but neither caught on and they abandoned that idea.

I always thought it was weird that when The Andrew Marr Show was on its summer break they'd do News 24 Sunday with Peter Sissons, simulcast with News 24, but with exactly the same format as Andrew Marr which wasn't simulcast on News 24, so I don't know why they didn't just do The Andrew Marr Show With Peter Sissons, which is what they do now in the summer of course.

And of course there was that weird semi-Breakfast during the 2000 Olympics, between Breakfast News ending and Breakfast beginning, which ran 7-8.30 on BBC2 and News 24.

I really didn't like that set either. It didn't feel like newsroom at all, more like an inside of some castle or something.

Its getting darker in N8

Looks very funereal, especially Gavin and Alice's facial expressions!