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Five News at 7 returns to 30 mins!

Five extends it's peak-time bulletin! (March 2005)

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JA
jaskers
As from 11th April when five revamps its daytime schedule, five news at 7pm will also be returning to a 30 minute bulletin.

I think this will be better, the 15 minute ones were not enough in the peak-time schedule.
MO
morgaineofevil
That's good, it was rather rubbish having 15 minutes! And it will keep offcom happy withb it keeping within their rules of how much and when news should be broadcast
TE
TELEVISION
Good news indeed, I hope it goes back to what it used to be like, with no break, and with studio guests.
LO
Londoner
If this is true, what does it mean for all the 45-minute documentaries they have been busy commissioning for the 7.15 slot?
MA
Matrix
Londoner posted:
If this is true, what does it mean for all the 45-minute documentaries they have been busy commissioning for the 7.15 slot?


They become half and hour doc's.......

Does anyone else feel five news is now going round in circles with Sky.
I really, really do hope someone falls off that ledge soon on the updates, come on its bound to happen, preferably with Lara Lewington stabbing herself in the eye with a carrot at the same time
LO
Londoner
Matrix posted:
Londoner posted:
If this is true, what does it mean for all the 45-minute documentaries they have been busy commissioning for the 7.15 slot?


They become half and hour doc's.......

Well only last week Broadcast reported on a new 8 x 45 minute series on Italy with Brian Sewell commissioned for the autumn.
DV
DVB Cornwall
This is probably Election related and the bulletin will return to 15 mins afterwards.
MI
mizzb
I hope they rethink their format for the 7pm show and return to a half hour programme permanently. The in depth news analysis with different guests was one of the strong points of the old News.


DVB Cornwall posted:
This is probably Election related and the bulletin will return to 15 mins afterwards.
LU
Luke
...but nobody was watching it.
MI
mizzb
Is anyone watching it now . Three months into the new regime , i havnt seen any numbers for who's watching Five' s news.



Luke posted:
...but nobody was watching it.
LO
Londoner
This is what Chris Shaw has to say in his column in Press Gazette this week:
Chris Shaw posted:
Finally, TV news programmes have no diary columns or editorials, so I hope you'll bear with me if I use a paragraph or two to reply to a nasty little campaign being waged against Five News by The Observer.

For two weeks running, the paper's media diarist implied that viewing figures to Five News have fallen since we moved the contract from ITN to Sky News. In fact, our audience so far this year is up some 6.4 per cent on our average viewing in 2004.

I would also like to point out that even our worst-performing 5.30 news programme has more viewers than The Observer's average readership of 437,000, and furthermore, that while our audience is rising, The Observer's readership is actually falling year on year by three per cent — faster than any other Sunday broadsheet.

So there!


http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/?t=article&l=viewers_vote_with
WT
The World Today
DVB Cornwall posted:
This is probably Election related and the bulletin will return to 15 mins afterwards.


It certianly is!

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