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BBC News: Nations & Regions

(April 2008)

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Inflatable Dartboard
spotlightsouthwest posted:
Inflatable Dartboard posted:
This is what I find odd about them introducing the "BBC Oxford News" title. Previously, viewers in the sub-region had some sort of "South Today" branding at all times (albeit that the Oxford-based bits would also shoehorn the word "Oxford" on as a suffix/prefix etc).

Now they get two totally different titles during a single half-hour - exclusively "BBC Oxford News" for first half of the programme, then exclusively "South Today" for the second half! Messy.


It's the same with BBC Channel Islands (previously Spotlight Channel Islands).


Do St Helier, like Oxford, verbally use the word "...News" at the end of the programme name (albeit that it isn't written as part of the main programme name, on the title sequence endboard - again, just like Oxford)? Or are all verbal references literally just "BBC Channel Islands"?
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Ben Founding member
Just BBC Channel Islands from what I have seen of it. Interestingly BBC London used to add on News frequently but I've not heard that happen for a long time now.
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Seb
Ben posted:
Just BBC Channel Islands from what I have seen of it. Interestingly BBC London used to add on News frequently but I've not heard that happen for a long time now.


Quite often the introduction to the programme is welcome to BBC London News, but thats about it, and only usually on the Lunchtime, Late and Weekend ones.
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Inflatable Dartboard
alarsne53 posted:
a thin red line!


Is that an un-made Ben Elton sitcom, set in a fire station?!

<gets coat>
MS
Mr-Stabby
Inflatable Dartboard posted:
spotlightsouthwest posted:
Inflatable Dartboard posted:
This is what I find odd about them introducing the "BBC Oxford News" title. Previously, viewers in the sub-region had some sort of "South Today" branding at all times (albeit that the Oxford-based bits would also shoehorn the word "Oxford" on as a suffix/prefix etc).

Now they get two totally different titles during a single half-hour - exclusively "BBC Oxford News" for first half of the programme, then exclusively "South Today" for the second half! Messy.


It's the same with BBC Channel Islands (previously Spotlight Channel Islands).


Do St Helier, like Oxford, verbally use the word "...News" at the end of the programme name (albeit that it isn't written as part of the main programme name, on the title sequence endboard - again, just like Oxford)? Or are all verbal references literally just "BBC Channel Islands"?


They're now being referred to as 'BBC Channel Island News' . It's a mouthful having to say it all at the end of a report as well as the reporters name.

8 days later

AJ
aj16
South Today - is this a new set today like the NC style or have I missed it?

Also did Dani just say let's have a look at the package?
JO
Joe
aj16 posted:
South Today - is this a new set today like the NC style or have I missed it?

Also did Dani just say let's have a look at the package?

I'm hoping it's temporary and there will be a new set. It looks crap and is unsuitable for their programme.

Package? As in, the report? What's wrong with that?
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Ben Founding member
I spotted that, they still used the soft area and due to tonight's show more or less being devoted to Pompey winning the FA Cup I assume it was just being used as a special, if pointless backdrop for that.
JO
Joe
Ben posted:
I spotted that, they still used the soft area and due to tonight's show more or less being devoted to Pompey winning the FA Cup I assume it was just being used as a special, if pointless backdrop for that.

Oh. Very pointless then.
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rob Founding member
Jugalug posted:
Ben posted:
I spotted that, they still used the soft area and due to tonight's show more or less being devoted to Pompey winning the FA Cup I assume it was just being used as a special, if pointless backdrop for that.

Oh. Very pointless then.


I'd like to second that remark.

It's not a new set, it's CSO. They've used it before for some features, but last night, it looked really awful.
DE
deejay
Jugalug posted:
Package? As in, the report? What's wrong with that?


'Package' is a fairly widely used term within television and radio for a complete reporter-told story. To the wider public it's probably more often referred to as an "item", a "film", a "report" or a "piece".

I suspect it was a slightly adlibbed introduction and the presenter just referred to the upcoming item as a package out of habit. I remember Peter Sissons (I think) doing a newsreport on BBC 1 a number of years ago and saying that there'd be more news when it was known and that there was a 'Junction' on BBC Two in 45 minutes. I remember a flurry of activity on either this forum or on Darren Meldrum's email forum about that term and whether the wider audience knew what a junction was!
AJ
aj16
Sorry, just the first time I've heard it referred to on air.

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