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Welcome to Juliette Foster - Former Sky Anchor joins World (September 2004)

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harshy Founding member
More like their new crap style of broadcasting, well they need the money so they have to these things now.
CO
cortomaltese
harshy posted:
More like their new crap style of broadcasting, well they need the money so they have to these things now.


Do BBC World really think it will earn some money by showing the rolling text every 15 minutes and some awful adverts of itself?
HA
harshy Founding member
Well it has to, otherwise it's curtains for BBC World

As a web designer, it has to be said someone needs to redo BBC World's template! Wink
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itsrobert Founding member
cortomaltese posted:
harshy posted:
More like their new crap style of broadcasting, well they need the money so they have to these things now.


Do BBC World really think it will earn some money by showing the rolling text every 15 minutes and some awful adverts of itself?


Well the more times BBC World air each advert, the more money they get from the relevant companies. Because BBC World is a commercial channel, it has to keep itself afloat financially, unlike the rest of the BBC News programmes, which get their funding from the licence fee.
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cortomaltese
itsrobert posted:
cortomaltese posted:
harshy posted:
More like their new crap style of broadcasting, well they need the money so they have to these things now.


Do BBC World really think it will earn some money by showing the rolling text every 15 minutes and some awful adverts of itself?


Well the more times BBC World air each advert, the more money they get from the relevant companies. Because BBC World is a commercial channel, it has to keep itself afloat financially, unlike the rest of the BBC News programmes, which get their funding from the licence fee.


If they had chosen to show more adverts I would have understood but, I mean, all those PuttingNewsFirst fake-interview adverts are just rubbish which, I guess, do not bring any money to BBC World...
GA
ganets04
Fake? Could you elaborate, please? Because here i am thinking that all they say is true - they're quite convincing, if you ask me.
DJ
David Jonathan
What's wrong with World at the moment? They're showing a recorded bulletin.
CO
cortomaltese
ganets04 posted:
Fake? Could you elaborate, please? Because here i am thinking that all they say is true - they're quite convincing, if you ask me.


Of course what they're saying is true but the interview sounds so false... The fact that they're talking to nobody and doing it just for commercial purpose. I don't know, I just hate those adverts...
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cortomaltese
David Jonathan posted:
What's wrong with World at the moment? They're showing a recorded bulletin.


Yes, it was so odd... Anya Sitaram must have been late because of the traffic in London.
GA
ganets04
Even the 1100 GMT bulletin is a pre-recorded one! What's happening at BBC-W? I seriously doubt if the next presenter is held up in a traffic jam!
GA
ganets04
The bottom-of-the-hour headlines ie at 1130 GMT, i presume, weren't pre-recorded - because Mr. Finnighan said that 'Spirit of Yatching' was next and indeed it was!
There must be something serious going on because Finnighan looked very grave.
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itsrobert Founding member
Last night's was due to a technical fault, and this morning's was due to one of the crew being taken ill.

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