After all, all that'll happen is the powers that be in the regions get bored and soon start breaking away from set design, graphic templates, titles etc. and just go and do their own 'take' on it anyway.
Well the powers that be in London should bloody well make the idiots in the regions do what they're told! Are they part of the BBC or not!?
Those globe and ribbon graphics were done in house, and were obviously a stop gap to replace the 1999 titles, so they would match the new studios. As time as gone on, everyone has gone their separate ways, and now with the cost cutting, its time BBC News pulls itself together again, especially as News 24 and the National News are quite literally pulling together!
Issue is - Regional News isn't really part of BBC News - it is part of Nations and Regions who fight hard to be independent... Now it IS part of BBC JOURNALISM (which encompasses BBC News, BBC Sport, Nations and Regions and Global News) - hopefully things will be a bit more joined up again...
Something's going on - the Sport headlines were just done in front of an obviously CSOed background (a white frame "hanging" down with the story picture beside a presenter standing in front of a plain version of the standard N8 bg).
Something's going on - the Sport headlines were just done in front of an obviously CSOed background (a white frame "hanging" down with the story picture beside a presenter standing in front of a plain version of the standard N8 bg).
That sounds like a device that's used quite often - the sport presenter in the left-side pod, with an inset graphic overlaid onto the view into the newsroom behind. It's quite often used when the right-hand pod is being prepared for something else - Dateline London, Film 24, or Question Time Extra, for example - leaving that area unavailable for broadcast while they set up.
Of course, it could just be that there was some kind of minor technical fault that put the right pod temporarily out of use.
After all, all that'll happen is the powers that be in the regions get bored and soon start breaking away from set design, graphic templates, titles etc. and just go and do their own 'take' on it anyway.
Well the powers that be in London should bloody well make the idiots in the regions do what they're told! Are they part of the BBC or not!?
i think some people get carried away with an unnatural lust for everything to match perfectly and for there to be a seamless join between the national new and regional news.
it goes without saying that regional news should be unmistakably bbc and should sit next to the national news comfortably.
its also worth remembering that the key strength of the regional news programmes is the fact they are regional. its television that isn't from london, its news about places/people/jobs that the audience care about. so why force the programmes into a straight jacket, just to tidy things up? why be associated too closely with the national news which simply oozes london-ness?
regional programmes should support and feel as much a part of bbc local radio stations as they do bbc news.
and i really don't buy the argument that all regional shows should look the same. if someone lives in plymouth, it doesn't matter one iota whether look north newcastle has the same sofa or not. the important part is that the set should reflect the tone of the programme - some shows are very fluffy, other shows wish they were newsnight.