And you know what, Marcus, I really didn't like it at all. It's a very similar format to the non-sports version (World Have Your Say). But watching Sports World Have Your Say last night, I was honestly cringing. Thank goodness for the gentlemen who was sitting at the pod (former footballer), as he held the thing together, just.
Amanda Davies did not do well at all!! I think first day nerves and a lot to juggle all the way through. But she really struggled in coping with the multiple guests and i think too much gallery input. On more than one occasion, she froze and didn't know what to say next, eventually dripping words out slowly.
However, as mentioned, I put this down to first-day nerves and coping with a new format.
Ginnyfan, if I am not mistaken, your clip above is from BBC World in the mid-to-late nineties (probably nearer to 1996). The programme, rather ironically, is called Newsday, which was presented by Philip Hayton (shown in the centre above) and a weekly rotating co-anchor. In the case above, the co-anchor is the superb Nisha Pillai, to the right of the picture.
Back in the days when BBC World was a force to be reckoned with and senior presenters could be found on almost all programmes.
I've just spent the last week in Manila and have had ample opportunity to watch World out with my normal time zones. Thus, I've had Mike Embley for Breakfast, Naga Munchetty for lunch, George Alagiah for dinner and Lucy Hockings for supper, so to speak.
More interestingly so, I noticed that over here the traditional BBC World break filler doesn't really exist. Instead, there are end to end video clips of upcoming programs, interspersed with clever graphic presentations about everything from sports statistics, body mass indices and gross domestic product indices, and all of these subject matters are cleverly woven together. The otherwise static screens that we often see back in the UAE (providing such data as temperatures, climate, coming up, time zones, etc, etc plus static headlines,) don't exist over here. It all makes for a rather more energetic feel to the channel.
On the subject of Lucy Hockings, who presented yesterdays Impact, she used the program to show us photos that viewers had sent in from a rather snowy New Zealand. Indeed, her family had also sent in some, which Lucy proceeded to show us on screen, including a message written in snow from her nephew (hi Aunt Lucy, or words to that effect), plus photographs of her nephew and family which were shown on screen. Unusual for a World news anchor to get so intimate with the global audience. For a moment, I had to pinch myself to remind that I was watching Lucy Hockings, and not Ros Atkins!
Aren't those package ads? Like how they do "Golf updates sponsor by Rolex etc? Or Africa Business Report stats etc. When I could get the Asian feed it was different from the other feeds. I notice they were more ads on the feed and they were very culture base. That is representative of the region. It felt like a true global channel.
I definitely saw a lot of package ads but also the nasty white breakfiller with horrible music that sounded like bubbles popping or something. Bring back the classic 2000 music that's what I say [/tvf-cliché]
I definitely saw a lot of package ads but also the nasty white breakfiller with horrible music that sounded like bubbles popping or something. Bring back the classic 2000 music that's what I say [/tvf-cliché]
Yea I can't stand those white break fillers. wonder why they won't update it or at least add some color and switch it up at times. Since 2009? They've change or updated a lot of the graphics on the channel but it seems like they abandon the break filler. It's a shame because it takes up 15 minutes every hour. They don't do promos in the break like CNN or AlJ except before the break (after the weather) or before the News. On the occasions they've done promos it has been good. Why not play a loop of the promos or bring back the old music with some interesting graphics. Or is it a cutting cost issue? If it is cost issue then it's a shame they can do it somewhere else.
They need to bring in proper breakfiller music, like the track from the David Lowe BBC World TV Mix album. The current music is terrible and doesn't have any of the BBC 'sounds' like pips or anything.
