The NR presenters now feel more like kids hosts reading a bulletin whereas up to the 90s they seemed more like younger journalists who just happened to appear on kids TV.
I happen to disagree with you all, I love Newsround and think the programme does a brilliant job at explaining headlines to those of a younger age group.
Lets not forget, for example, It's very hard to tell and explain to a 7 year old what is going on out in Syria.
The NR presenters now feel more like kids hosts reading a bulletin whereas up to the 90s they seemed more like younger journalists who just happened to appear on kids TV.
Linda Yueh to step-down as the BBC's Chief Business Correspondent. Currently based in Singapore, Linda is to relocate to London and work freelance for Radio 4.
Linda Yueh to step-down as the BBC's Chief Business Correspondent. Currently based in Singapore, Linda is to relocate to London and work freelance for Radio 4.
That may explain why some of the more recent editions of Talking Business have come from BH recently.
I'm prompted back here by the arcane issue of 'clean' and 'dirty' feeds again - yes, I did forget my password and had to reset it again as I'll probably do the same when I come back in another few weeks/months' time (don't worry, don't need to tell me about password management...)..anyway...
We had the royal birth on Saturday and BBC1 opting in and out of Maxine Mawhinney. Strangely(?), they had a clean feed for the scheduled midday bulletin, but the one o'clock, even though it was only three or five minutes in length, had the ticker running on it - BBC1 even crashed into that at the TOTH when it was halfway in progress through a story, it then disappeared briefly but returned at about 2 or 3 minutes past the hour and remained for the bulletin. I was watching one of the nations back on i-Player an hour or so later and thought it was them - but, no, I checked the BBC1 England (i.e. London) showing, and the ticker came on for them - so it seems it was BBC1 at London HQ going to News Channel, with ticker, at 11.30am, 1pm and 3.30pm.
Tonight - we have had the reverse. BBC News Channel opting to BBC1 Northern Ireland for the NI Leader's Debate, but the News Channel managed to get a 'clean' version of BBC1 NI - the end credits rolled, with the full music right to the end, and no-one talking over them, yet BBC1 NI, for the most part, had their continuity announcer introducing their next programme over the credits. BBC News Channel clearly not getting their feed via the NI continuity booth!
Tonight - we have had the reverse. BBC News Channel opting to BBC1 Northern Ireland for the NI Leader's Debate, but the News Channel managed to get a 'clean' version of BBC1 NI - the end credits rolled, with the full music right to the end, and no-one talking over them, yet BBC1 NI, for the most part, had their continuity announcer introducing their next programme over the credits. BBC News Channel clearly not getting their feed via the NI continuity booth!
When you say 'clean' - did it have captions on it?
They wouldn't have been showing BBC1 Northern Ireland on the News Channel, they'd have been getting the output of the programme's gallery sent down to London. This would have been the main (or 'dirty' if you must) If they were getting a clean output of the programme then it would have no captions
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The BBC Media Centre has an article saying Jon Sopel has been drafted in to act as a correspondent during the UK election coverage and Reeta Chakrabati is giving the news updates throughout the night. Is it new to have a dedicated presenter for this? I thought the 'normal' overnight presenter had this role?