BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

The morning schedule did not use to change with the clock change before. The amount of live programing is drastically cut and taped stuff is increasing. Not only did they cut the 10.00 bulletin but also the 12.30 one which used to go out on BBC2.

So the 18:30 ET repeat of BBC World News America on the North American feed is messed up showing a black screen with only the bug.

Edit: After four minutes it just came back online.

Good to see Daniela Ritorto on GMT this lunchtime doing a two-way from Oz with Lucy Hockings who gave her a warm welcome to discuss Australian politics.

Good to see BBC World News doing their bit for screenburn with another variation in dimensions/placing of the red box...



This one rotates around with icons for online, social etc.

I suppose that's the level of consistency we've come to expect from BBC News and the reason I never want to know how much they gave to design agencies to come up with a set of guidelines.

Well, KCET finally updated their countdown for their syndicated BBC World News simulcasts. It's a now old HD one where it shows Yalda Hakim in the field and Jon Sopel in Paris. Afterwards it still shows an up scaled bumper, some ads/underwriting with logos then the full open in HD.


I don't think screen burnin is much of an issue for these break fillers where the logos on screen in that location for a minute or less. What I'd be more concerned about for burn in is the bright red logo next to the ticker which is just static during almost all programming.

Anyone who watches BBC World News long enough for screen burn to become an issue is watching BBC World News far too much.

As for the graphics... the vast majority of viewers arent going to notice. That said, if the BBC have the attitude that the vast majority of their viewers arent going to notice and they stop caring about consistency and quality in their presentation, what else will they become complacent about? Is their journalism suffering as well?

I imagine those most at risk are newsrooms, bank and government offices all places where they have multiple TV's constantly running for news and analysis.

Graphics during news bulletins are generally well with few errors aside from text resizing to fit a space. I would attribute that to a producer/director opening the MOS panel in either ENPS or Mosart and adding the text/graphical element without doing a pre render previews.

There are some issues with pre recorded programmers that aren't filmed live to tape (such as HARDtalk) with some quirks such as the astons out of alignment. There have been multiple recorded (outside the studio) programs aston issues such the alignment. Their culture programs seem to have the most issues such as the astons not lining up properly - there are times where there's a significant space between the bottom of the Aston and the top of the ticker. Other times the Aston may be right alighted where the Aston does not reach the left side.

I think what they need to do is revise the style guide, hand it out to all those who will use it and insist that Red Bee Media follow it to a T for the different types of break fillers they produce. I imagine their visual style guide is a big book but there should be an abridged version showing all the common templates, how to use them all without the nitty gritty detail.

Appologies for the long post.

Seem to see the BBC News logo more and more on BBC World News and we see more of the BBC World News logo on BBC News, all a bit strange.

I've said before that both channels should just be branded as BBC News. That way there would be no confusion. Since neither channel is supposed to be available in the same market, it shouldn't be an issue. But my idea was shot down by others in this particular parish.

If both channels are not simultaneously available in any particular market, how can there be any confusion?

Both channels are available in Ireland.