As they'll be continuing the BBC News Channel and World simulcast they need to get it ironed out. "This is BBC News.." awkward pauses are not needed. I'd also say that during daytime UK hours it should be seen as World joining the UK and thus nothing should change such as fitting in World breaks or changing how they describe things, such as "UK government".
As with CNN, when they welcome viewers in the US and around the world, nothing changes on CNN's front. CNN International joins CNN US and you just put up with it, the same should be done here when World joins News Channel.
As they'll be continuing the BBC News Channel and World simulcast they need to get it ironed out. "This is BBC News.." awkward pauses are not needed. I'd also say that during daytime UK hours it should be seen as World joining the UK and thus nothing should change such as fitting in World breaks or changing how they describe things, such as "UK government".
As with CNN, when they welcome viewers in the US and around the world, nothing changes on CNN's front. CNN International joins CNN US and you just put up with it, the same should be done here when World joins News Channel.
Yes. I'd rather not have to know the name of the weather presenter than cringe at the awkward pause that some presenters manage to get wrong almost all of the time.
Obviously, if they are going to continue with these morning simulcasts, then there is a lot of presentation work to do for it to not look a mess. For example, as much as I prefer it, in the evenings when World branding is took the close and re-run of titles at half past is very different to the pace of the News Channel. Also, on World, the titles and presentation must seem incredibly odd with the trundle etc.
As I have said before, though, the information publicly available is (understandably) very vague. It did say at the bottom of one of the press releases that more information was to come in the near future.
Does the end of Newsday also mean the end of the Asia Business Report?
It strikes me as shortsighted if BBC World News moves away from having live broadcasts from the region which is home to 55% of the worldwide population and when the global political and economic center of gravity is inexorably moving towards Asia.
Over time CNN International moved away from live Asia morning and evening programmes, and now has nothing. Al Jazeera is the same since they closed the Kuala Lumpur studio. It blows my mind.
Business programming too seems to be slowly dying away. Not long ago you'd have had hourly business bulletins on BBC & Sky News (as well as Ian King Live), several World Business Report episodes on BBC World, various World Business Today editions on CNN and Quest's show on CNN.
I don't think Asia Business Report is going anywhere. It's been
business as usual
right through the pandemic.
I think the 9 am UK/World simulcast on weekdays might become permanent because World would normally have a very short bulletin (3-5 minutes) followed by taped programming. I remember someone mentioning on TVF the reason World dropped that hour's 30 minute bulletin a few years ago was because there was very low viewership for that hour.
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Going back to the whole " Studio E flexibility" - from what I gather, management want contributors to continue to be over video call forever more, meaning in-studio guests will be limited and that The Papers will probably always how it is currently.
However, I also believe that they are looking for other studios than E to use for programmes like Marr and Newsnight.
Going back to the whole "Studio E flexibility" - from what I gather, management want contributors to continue to be over video call forever more, meaning in-studio guests will be limited and that The Papers will probably always how it is currently.
I really fear for the future quality of BBC News. I understand these cuts and decisions have to be made but, bloody hell.
Going back to the whole "Studio E flexibility" - from what I gather, management want contributors to continue to be over video call forever more, meaning in-studio guests will be limited and that The Papers will probably always how it is currently.
I really fear for the future quality of BBC News. I understand these cuts and decisions have to be made but, bloody hell.
It is the case that BBC News is probably over-staffed in certain areas, even if we don’t feel it when we watch at home. Even if they lose the numbers they’re suggesting, they still have a vast workforce which dwarves anyone else.
But I do think it’s wrong for the BBC to swing the axe at their local radio stations and Inside Out etc, given the commercial sector isn’t doing anything remotely like this anymore....and puts diverse staff on air (those from economically-underprivileged towns and cities as well as more visible forms of diversity). Also some of the gargantuan sums that get spent on the bespoke BBC Scotland channel and other internal initiatives would make me feel aggrieved if I worked in BBC News.
When there's news stories that have national angles as well as being reported by the regions, I'm slightly surprised that there still seems to be 2 journos attending.
The example I'd cite is the Cabot statue story from this week - Jon Kay was reporting from Bristol for network-news, and Points West also sent their reporter. For major stories where multiple outlets need to get on-air in a short space of time, I can understand it to an extent. But why couldn't one journalist cover this sort of story for both national & regional? As long as any live OBs don't overlap, obviously...
Whilst I can understand the World/NC simulcasts continuing in the evenings after 7pm, the morning simulcasts continuing make no sense to me, esp as it's only for 2-3 hours. If there's a big breaking UK news story or press conference/political speech that the NC needs to carry in the morning, it's not exactly appropriate for World viewers to get this broadcast in it's entirety as well is it?
We had a good example yesterday where the NC and BBC One took the PM's news conference, that also went out on World, which I'm guessing if World had been broadcasting separately wouldn't have happened.
Is World really saving that much but continuing the morning NC simulcast? I have no idea what the World presenting shifts are, but wouldn't World having presenter shifts like 5am -9am, 9am - 1pm, 1 - 5pm, 5 - 8pm make more sense than having 2 hours of UK centric news every morning?
The current World shifts to my knowledge are 5am-10am, 12-4pm, 4-8pm, 8-10pm (Outside Source), 10pm-1am and 1-5am.
So by broadcasting the NC 10am - 12pm then, World is saving on one presenting shift between 5am and 8pm. Whilst this might have worked during the height of the Covid crisis when there was only one news story, it's hardly appropriate in the long term. It's very sad that the cuts have to be this drastic that the quality of broadcast news output on either the NC or World or both will be noticeably compromised.
right through the pandemic.