Around 12 months into OnDigital's period there was a pre-genesis plan that I read (BBC RD possibly) that proposed regionalising News24 to enable a repeat of the local news magazines at around mid evening - possibly 2030 - and some additional bulletins to be featured. I dont recall seeing anything since that though.
I think regional news on News24 throughout the day would be an improvement to the channel. Even if it was 5 minutes per hour, it would get more value from the regional news centres, and would probably attract more viewers to N24. I would also keep the regional news on BBC1, but maybe make it more of a magazine show - maybe a 45 minute programme, with 15 minutes news, 15 minutes regional fluff, then 15 minutes national fluff based on the One Show idea.
Do you mean opted regional news on News 24 or a regional round-up on the national channel? Personally, I can't see how the latter would attract viewers. People in any given part of the country are not going to watch a news channel because of low-key news from a region they don't live in.
I was meaning a full opt out, adding the infrastructure to the N24 broadcast chain to support it.
Regional news from other regions would be fairly uninteresting, or worse if it was a teaser of a story that does interest you, but you can't watch because it's only broadcast in a different area.
I notice Alan Johnston has got the broadcast journalist of the year award, does any kidnapped reporter instantly lay claim to anything going now? I have doubts he would have been awarded it otherwise regardless of being short-listed beforehand.
The coverage he has received seems incredibly disproportionate -- I understand about putting pressure on and keeping it in the minds of people, but the news isn't a lobby group. If they must do it it shouldn't be through bulletins, maybe on the BBC website in a separate unrelated section.
Is it me or is everyone trying to fix something which isn't broken?
BBC ONE News is fine as it is and (as mentioned above) will be for some time after the digi-switch over. Perhaps in time it may need to be revised, but it's way too early to speculate.
I notice Alan Johnston has got the broadcast journalist of the year award, does any kidnapped reporter instantly lay claim to anything going now? I have doubts he would have been awarded it otherwise regardless of being short-listed beforehand.
The coverage he has received seems incredibly disproportionate -- I understand about putting pressure on and keeping it in the minds of people, but the news isn't a lobby group. If they must do it it shouldn't be through bulletins, maybe on the BBC website in a separate unrelated section.
It was decided he would win the award before he was kidnapped.
At the time of his nomination, the London Press Club pointed out that the decision to nominate Mr Johnston was taken before his kidnap.
I read it as he was nominated but hadn't been chosen beforehand. I can't tell to be honest reading it back, it seems fairly muddled. Especially:
Guardian:
Quote:
At the ceremony at London's Claridge's hotel, Mr Thompson paid tribute to Johnston as well as the "courage" of his family.
"We nominated Alan for the broadcasting journalist of the year award long before his abduction in Gaza - in recognition of his outstanding journalism over the last three years," he said.
I like the way the beeb is using Jon Sopel for most of there politics coveredge at the moment - and nice once again to see Huw and George doing reports and outside parliament. Must get awfully boring to be stuck doing the ten from the studio always...
[quote="Steve in Pudsey"]Maybe News 24 could do a "round the regions" feature during the 5.00 hour with one region doing a 30 second tease for its top couple of stories and then throwing to the next region. [quote]
I like that idea - it would mean you saw all the regions headlines not just your own like after the 6
Maybe there are people in Devon want to see whats going on where there family live in Yorkshire?
One problem I could see with that (other than it being potentially very, very dull), is it's not uncommon for some regions to have the same top story.
I remember when the BBC One regions first went on Sky, I was flicking between them at 6.30, and Points West, East Midlands Today, Look North (Leeds), Look North (Hull), Look North (NE&C) and North West Tonight were all running the same top story about the skydiver who had died in suspicous circumstances in Lincolnshire. It seemed each region had found some kind of tenuous local link to the story.
Doing such a feature would somewhat give the game away, and would probably be primarily of interest to TV anoraks who get moist at the thought of seeing Harry Gration on the network.
UK Today was always a good feature on the ITV News Channel in the 3pm hour, with live links to 2 or 3 regions talking about their top stories
Not forgetting News 24's UK Today back in the late 1990s/early 2000s. What everyone is suggesting here for News 24 happened back then and was eventually scrapped. Am I the only one who remembers this?