Five News would never do well at 6pm (would clash with BBC); if I were in charge I'd dump the 7pm bulletin (after all, it clashes with Channel 4), relaunch the 5pm bulletin with the two presenters working along-side and add an update at 9pm. Therefore, you fill the two gaps in the cross-channel news schedule.
Except there are certain news requirements imposed on Channel 5 by Ofcom. One of these insists on a news bulletin in primetime, or at least a certain minimum of news to be provided within primetime hours. With OK! TV going more celeb-focussed than news oriented, that probably wouldn't qualify so I can't see Five News at 7 going anywhere.
Five News would never do well at 6pm (would clash with BBC)
They did this in 1999 remember, and by July 2001 they moved Five News to 5.30pm. It was good for the first year of Channel 5's existance when they had the main evening news at 8.30pm, but this didn't do too well as it moved to 7.00pm within the year. Channel 5 can't win for what time they put their evening news on, so they may aswell leave it at 7pm because even if they put another programme in that slot it'd still get the same viewing figures as most people are watching The One Show and Emmerdale.
Except there are certain news requirements imposed on Channel 5 by Ofcom. One of these insists on a news bulletin in primetime, or at least a certain minimum of news to be provided within primetime hours. With OK! TV going more celeb-focussed than news oriented, that probably wouldn't qualify so I can't see Five News at 7 going anywhere.
It would be interesting to know the sort of stats on people who watch both evening bulletins on all channels anyway. Five News may not perform well at 7pm, but would it really improve later in the evening? I wonder how much of the ITV News audience watch both the Evening News and News at Ten - and similarly with the BBC.
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andrew89
Kate Walsh announced on Twitter via a reply to someone that she won't be hosting OK!TV
I think a 5.30 slot would work as it's before all the alternatives, but saying that I don't know how successful it was in that slot before? It may require a good lead-in... Maybe the 7pm could be pushed back to 7.30 as I imagine there's a few people channel-hopping after The One Show/Emmerdale elsewhere.
I don't know where this OK!TV is going to end up, I imagine in that 6.25 slot... I can't really see how it will be any different to or better than Live at Studio Five though!
I think a 5.30 slot would work as it's before all the alternatives, but saying that I don't know how successful it was in that slot before? It may require a good lead-in... Maybe the 7pm could be pushed back to 7.30 as I imagine there's a few people channel-hopping after The One Show/Emmerdale elsewhere.
If you push everything back half an hour, Neighbours will probably be dented by the 6pm BBC1 News/ITV Regional News. And the 7.30pm slot on occasions can get 600k+ viewers. I doubt the news would ever get that at 7.30pm
Polly Whitehouse presenting tonights Five News at 5
I would assume 7 as well.
And Andy Bell in the studio!!!
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Ll0ydy
I was just wondering, does anybody know if
Five News
will get a new look on 14th February? New set/graphics etc?
Because unless they're moving studio, it's still coming from the same set - no CSO background indicating they're building a new set.
They've been in the current style look for almost 3 years. They were in the previous style set (the first set when Sky News started producing the programme) for around 3 years...
I was just wondering, does anybody know if
Five News
will get a new look on 14th February? New set/graphics etc?
Because unless they're moving studio, it's still coming from the same set - no CSO background indicating they're building a new set.
They've been in the current style look for almost 3 years. They were in the previous style set (the first set when Sky News started producing the programme) for around 3 years...
Yes, Media Guardian said that Sky News were believed to be building a new set ready for when Emma/Matt start.
Sky News is understood to be building a new set for the programme, which insiders said would take a more in-depth look at the day's events with an increased emphasis on interviews.
