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BBC News at One / Six or Ten to be axed?

Head of BBC News says she expect just one bulletin a day within the next decade. (August 2020)

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JF
JF World News
Ne1L C posted:
To my mind the issue is not the network news. Its the news channel itself. I don't know what the viewing figure are for the NC but i should imagine their pretty low.

My solution is to scrap the NC for domestic audiences and boost the network bulletins.


My solution would scrap the news channel as a UK channel replace with BBC World News op-out for the network bulletins (Nine, One, Five, Six, The Nine, Ten) and turn back half hours into UK focus when showing programmes like HARDtalk, The Travel Show.
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Meridian AM
What are the viewing figures like these days for Sky News versus BBC News?

I still find the Sky News channel more watchable than BBC News (UK), especially for UK news.

Although, Sky News has lost its spark. It feels a lot slower paced and samey. Its presentation was great 10 to 15 years ago. Now it is too similar to BBC News.
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SuperSajuuk
Something I don't understand here about this "story" is... Fran is saying that she thinks a lot of news will be consumed online meaning that TV bulletins will not be as important. Yet she is involved in the whole idea of the BBC News and BBC Sport teams in closing down the majority of its twitter accounts? That.... seems counter intuitive.

Overall, this is just a PR stunt tbh. There's no reason to think the flagship news bulletins on a TV will disappear given their importance (I would argue a lot of people at the workplace in financial sectors would have something like the BBC News Channel running, alongside many other workplaces). Shutting them down doesn't make any logical sense in the long term at all.

Also, despite being a "young person" (ie under 30), I consume a lot of my news from the TV, because most online articles are just clickbait at this point. If its an important story, then it will get mentioned on the TV in some way. Many of the notable stories I've heard about over the last 5 years have all been from watching the News Channel, not looking online (except for local stories which never get reported on the TV).
Last edited by SuperSajuuk on 21 August 2020 7:51pm
JF
JF World News
Meridian AM posted:
itsrobert posted:
JF World News posted:

The 7pm bulletin before Brexit/COVID on BBC Four was designed to be the bulletin designed to focus on mainly international news, that was expanded to 9pm in 2015 daily

And look where it was hidden away - on BBC Four. It was available for those who wanted to seek it out but it certainly wasn't mainstream. And the increase in international news on the BBC News Channel has not been because viewers wanted it; it's purely driven by cost savings.

By and large, I'm afraid most people just aren't that interested in news from other countries unless it has an impact on their own country or they are considered allies. For instance, there is more interest in US or Australian news in the UK than there would be for Angolan or Vietnamese.

I had access to BBC World via a satellite dish that I had for about 15 years and, apart from the fantastic presentation at the time, the news content wasn't especially interesting. The more interesting international news (such as about Europe, G7 countries etc) featured on the main BBC1 bulletins anyway and was explained in a way that was more relevant to me as a British viewer. And the rest of the BBC World news content was about far away countries in Asia, Africa or South America. Do I really need to know that Bolivia is having an election?

I know that will probably be an unpopular opinion here, but that's why I think it's important to maintain the main network BBC1 bulletins with a carefully selected mix of UK and world news stories designed for a British audience. The BBC News Channel is dying because there is now too much non-UK news featured on it thanks to all the simulcasts. This must be the first time in 20 years I've hardly even tuned into it. I now associate it with foreign news and gimmicky presentation. My go-to news channel is now Sky News and CNN for US news. I would never in a month of Sundays have said that, particularly about Sky News, 10-15 years ago.


Totally agree with all of this. I give you double kudos. đŸ€Ș😀


Heres the evidence that World News is to be made permanent in the evening "the BBC News channel in the UK and BBC World News globally) with a focus on live, breaking and developing stories but will retain some elements of shared output in the mornings and evenings"
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Ne1L C
I don’t mind NC and World teaming up but keep it away from BBC 1
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JF
JF World News
Ne1L C posted:
I don’t mind NC and World teaming up but keep it away from BBC 1


They will apart from overnight when BBC One “closedown” which has been the case since 1997
JW
JamesWorldNews
This sums it up perfectly, in my opinion. In all aspects.

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Ne1L C
JamesWorldNews posted:
This sums it up perfectly, in my opinion. In all aspects.



'ecology of an overall channel strategy'

What the %^&*!

W1A wasn't a comedy. It was a premonition!
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Square Eyes Founding member
Then The Telegraph ran a follow up where 'ITV declare its news bulletins are going nowhere' - 'in a swipe at the BBC'.

(paywalled article)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/21/itv-declares-news-bulletins-going-nowhere-swipe-bbc-claim-face/
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Ne1L C
Makes a change from "news at when".
JW
JamesWorldNews
Ne1L C posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:
This sums it up perfectly, in my opinion. In all aspects.



'ecology of an overall channel strategy'

What the %^&*!

W1A wasn't a comedy. It was a premonition!


What does that even mean? And I ask this in all seriousness.
NL
Ne1L C
I don't know what it means but I do know its a form of English knows as b******t!
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