MH
[quote="myan" pid="885696"]
I think BBCWN could have sprinkled their documentaries throughout the week, instead of saturating it at weekends. I feel like I got an overdose of documentaries at weekends, and left hungry for news. Weekdays there's too much time for news, that sometimes they had to put in some non-essential news pieces just to fill up time when big news aren't a lot. The news-documentary ratio could be more well-balanced over the week.
But most of their documentaries are almost an hour long. If they put them on weekdays then they would have to lose an hour of news on a higher rated day.
EDIT: I think they should move the half hour programs like Click and Fast track back to weekdays.
I think BBCWN could have sprinkled their documentaries throughout the week, instead of saturating it at weekends. I feel like I got an overdose of documentaries at weekends, and left hungry for news. Weekdays there's too much time for news, that sometimes they had to put in some non-essential news pieces just to fill up time when big news aren't a lot. The news-documentary ratio could be more well-balanced over the week.
But most of their documentaries are almost an hour long. If they put them on weekdays then they would have to lose an hour of news on a higher rated day.
EDIT: I think they should move the half hour programs like Click and Fast track back to weekdays.
Last edited by MoHasanie on 19 August 2013 12:43am
MH
Does anyone think BBC World News doesn't promote their programs well enough? Today I was watching the Toughest place to be a Midwife program which has been heavily promoted all month and then in the next hour I watched an excellent documentary about girls education in Pakistan. I had seen no promotion at all about this program, and yet I have seen numerous promos about midwife program. It doesn't make sense to air programs with no promotion. This has happened many times before with me where I have watched documentaries on the channel that I'd seen no promotion for.
MY
[quote="MoHasanie" pid="885787"]
I think BBCWN could have sprinkled their documentaries throughout the week, instead of saturating it at weekends. I feel like I got an overdose of documentaries at weekends, and left hungry for news. Weekdays there's too much time for news, that sometimes they had to put in some non-essential news pieces just to fill up time when big news aren't a lot. The news-documentary ratio could be more well-balanced over the week.
But most of their documentaries are almost an hour long. If they put them on weekdays then they would have to lose an hour of news on a higher rated day.
EDIT: I think they should move the half hour programs like Click and Fast track back to weekdays.
The full hour documentaries could be split up into segments I feel. Having said that, they do at the moment, have snippets from those documentaries like Click and Fast Track being show at certain times about 5 or 10 minutes before the TOTH bulletin.
I think BBCWN could have sprinkled their documentaries throughout the week, instead of saturating it at weekends. I feel like I got an overdose of documentaries at weekends, and left hungry for news. Weekdays there's too much time for news, that sometimes they had to put in some non-essential news pieces just to fill up time when big news aren't a lot. The news-documentary ratio could be more well-balanced over the week.
But most of their documentaries are almost an hour long. If they put them on weekdays then they would have to lose an hour of news on a higher rated day.
EDIT: I think they should move the half hour programs like Click and Fast track back to weekdays.
The full hour documentaries could be split up into segments I feel. Having said that, they do at the moment, have snippets from those documentaries like Click and Fast Track being show at certain times about 5 or 10 minutes before the TOTH bulletin.
MY
Not sure if it's relevant, but BBCWN has several feeds, whereby their 'commercial' slot varies in terms of promos. Like certain feeds, they don't have weather reports before TOTH. But I guess the 'critical' promos would be still be available on all feeds. I remembered they used to promote 'Why Poverty' very intensely a while back, with an extra few-second fast promo right before TOTH countdown, sort of to re-emphasize it. I'm not too sure whether they under-promote certain shows, while applying excessive emphasis to others.
Does anyone think BBC World News doesn't promote their programs well enough? Today I was watching the Toughest place to be a Midwife program which has been heavily promoted all month and then in the next hour I watched an excellent documentary about girls education in Pakistan. I had seen no promotion at all about this program, and yet I have seen numerous promos about midwife program. It doesn't make sense to air programs with no promotion. This has happened many times before with me where I have watched documentaries on the channel that I'd seen no promotion for.
Not sure if it's relevant, but BBCWN has several feeds, whereby their 'commercial' slot varies in terms of promos. Like certain feeds, they don't have weather reports before TOTH. But I guess the 'critical' promos would be still be available on all feeds. I remembered they used to promote 'Why Poverty' very intensely a while back, with an extra few-second fast promo right before TOTH countdown, sort of to re-emphasize it. I'm not too sure whether they under-promote certain shows, while applying excessive emphasis to others.
DT
Has anyone else noticed this but a couple of times the BBC World News logos has been cropped or stripes missing out of it over the last few days on Stings and Titles, I first noticed it the other day when half the logo was missing post titles on the 1130 and yesterday on GMT. When I switched on the BBC Two simulcast today half of it was missing again.
OF
I have just spotted that on Iplayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b038dhsr/BBC_World_News_22_08_2013/
Has anyone else noticed this but a couple of times the BBC World News logos has been cropped or stripes missing out of it over the last few days on Stings and Titles, I first noticed it the other day when half the logo was missing post titles on the 1130 and yesterday on GMT. When I switched on the BBC Two simulcast today half of it was missing again.
I have just spotted that on Iplayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b038dhsr/BBC_World_News_22_08_2013/
SN
I have just spotted that on Iplayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b038dhsr/BBC_World_News_22_08_2013/
The same thing happened on the simulcast the other night too, the top half of the logo was visible but the bottom not.
Also... who on earth was responsible for 'Davies Eades' on that bulletin?....
Has anyone else noticed this but a couple of times the BBC World News logos has been cropped or stripes missing out of it over the last few days on Stings and Titles, I first noticed it the other day when half the logo was missing post titles on the 1130 and yesterday on GMT. When I switched on the BBC Two simulcast today half of it was missing again.
I have just spotted that on Iplayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b038dhsr/BBC_World_News_22_08_2013/
The same thing happened on the simulcast the other night too, the top half of the logo was visible but the bottom not.
Also... who on earth was responsible for 'Davies Eades' on that bulletin?....
HA
harshy
Founding member
It happened ay 8:00 pm countdown finished, cut to a static title shot of Focus on Africa (presumably they've selected the wrong studio output) for 20 or 25 secs then crashing into the headlines sequence for World News Tonight, titles played per normal but we ended up with half a BBC World News logo, amd to top it off the captions appeared saying World News Tonight underneath came the BBC World News logo as per normal but then another BBC World News logo swings in from left this time with ticker. 
JW
Yep. Same in my area. The square box logo is only seen from the top half down and the lower half is cut off.