Good news, it shows one broadcaster is dedicated to regional news. The only problem is, many people will stick with ITV Regional News because its more their style. I think the BBC needs to aim their news at a wider audience range though, its too upmarket and posh for a lot of people.
No I am not, I am saying some people stay away from BBC Regional News because its comes across upmarket and posh, and with ITV Regional News not worth watching anymore, then the BBC is the only real news service, so it should be made with wider audience in mind, and not currently which appears to be upperclass.
I don't want it to become celebrity and lifestyle focused, because that is not news, but the way they approach it.
I have absolutely no idea what you're on about. Please explain why you think the Beeb is "upperclass" in the way they "approach it".
I agree that the BBC News local service is a bit old fashioned. Perhaps 'posh' is not the best way to describe it, I think it's just worth saying that regional news on the BBC is clearly designed for the over 50s. The stories presented seem to be aimed at people even older than that a lot of the time. Presenting style is very old fashioned in a lot of regions. Perhaps it is fair to say that the presenting style is 'posh'. Maybe not too posh, more middle class.
Every BBC Regional news programme I watch tends to have a story about World War Two at least once every couple of days. Or a story about how a local woman is using locally grown potatoes to feed her family, that sort of thing. There's never enough stories about the younger people in the community or stories that younger people would actually give a crap about! I'm a self confessed news junkie, and even I have problems watching regional news sometimes, it can be so boring.
Now it's not all one sided, ITV Regional news, especially in my region, can be even worse sometimes. But they do tend to try some more youth orientated stories.
Back to the main topic though. I think this is good news. I especially like the idea of more weekend presence on TV for the regions. My BBC region don't have any weekend bulletins at the moment. They don't even do the full half hour on weekdays.
I wonder if the extra bulletin will be lunchtime, like it was on ITV, or after the late news, as the local news has increasingly moved too due to sport events earlier in the day. Really though If it ends up being an extra 5-minute bulletin with the evening edition remaining at 5-minutes they'd be better off keeping to one and just doubling it to 10-minutes.
I agree that the BBC News local service is a bit old fashioned. Perhaps 'posh' is not the best way to describe it, I think it's just worth saying that regional news on the BBC is clearly designed for the over 50s. The stories presented seem to be aimed at people even older than that a lot of the time. Presenting style is very old fashioned in a lot of regions. Perhaps it is fair to say that the presenting style is 'posh'. Maybe not too posh, more middle class.
I wouldn't say that really, in most areas it's not as brash and gimmicky as the presentation on the national news or something like Sky News but that's certainly not a bad thing. It's probably the last bastion of good old fashioned newsreading, despite all the sofas and akward two-headed presentation
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Every BBC Regional news programme I watch tends to have a story about World War Two at least once every couple of days. Or a story about how a local woman is using locally grown potatoes to feed her family, that sort of thing. There's never enough stories about the younger people in the community or stories that younger people would actually give a crap about! I'm a self confessed news junkie, and even I have problems watching regional news sometimes, it can be so boring.
That is true, even in London they struggle at times. Although London tend to go down the bizarre or irrelevant route (yesterdays item on Coco Chanel for example) or just do a story about some kid from a minority doing something slightly out of the ordinary
The problem I think is what else is there? If you look at local papers or local radio news the news agenda is pretty much the same.
The extra bulletin on Sundays is almost certainly going to be time out from'The Politics Show', I'd expect this to be achieved by strengthening the regional opt during that. This bulletin would also cover the Local Government aspect of these proposals. It wouldn't surprise me to see the early evening on Sunday moved later (as happened a couple of years ago - maybe more) and to run in a half hour slot from 6.30 or 7.00 with 18 min National, 10 min Regions/Nations and 2 Weather as it's make up.
Saturday is difficult to adequately fit. The obvious slot currently is 1210 which could act as a regional sport preview and would counterbalance the sport roundup with the early evening remaining unchanged. I suspect that BBC Sport might object to losing Football Focus time though.
I can't see the 'neutral costing' aspect of these changes being achieved by leaving Regions and Nations newsrooms open into Saturday and Sunday evenings for addons to the later bulletins.
The plan is for a lunchtime bulletin on Saturday and a bulletin after the network 10 on Sunday.
There'll be no late bulletin on a Saturday though. And while BBC Scotland does a lunchtime bulletin on Sundays during the opt from The Politics Show, there's no plan to do the same thing across the network.
As far as I'm aware, the launch date hasn't been set yet.
Coverage at Breakfast time and late are fine though, so it'd be interesting to see what improvements were made here
I guess the late bulletin would be extended with reports used on the main 6.30 bulletin
I would presume we're talking an extra few minutes after the 10 - perhaps extending from 7'30 to 10 like they did after the Wimbledon issue a few weeks ago.
And presumably an extra minute or so at Breakfast... to do any more you'd need to have more people around for the breakfast bulletins which as these changes are 'revenue neutral' seems unlikely.
If the ten network and regional block unit is to last up to 40minutes, maybe more, is there a remote possibilty of skewing BBC TWO's schedules to enable a viewer to see the ten block in full and switch into the beginning of Newsnight? I know it's an ask but it would tidy things up well.
The problem there would be a need to get BBC2 up to 10.40, most probably with a 10 or 40 minute show ... and I don't think they could always get away with a short version of Coast
If anything I think they'd push Newsnight a couple of minutes earlier to start when the Ten ends, making the assumption people will choose either the regional news or Newsnight.
Seems odd to have the extra Saturday bulletin at lunchtime and the Sunday one in the evening. I think perhaps just having a slight extension to the Saturday bulletin, and then expanding the Sunday bulletin to say 15 minutes, to include the local Football League highlights, might not be a bad option - or perhaps they could do a "Goals Extra" style football league round up on Saturdays during Final Score. Going back a few years now but that's one thing ITV regions used to do on a Saturday - a short 10-15 minutes regional results show with all the local goals.
