AN
I agree, I think this is an awful idea. Integrating the regional and national news between 6 and 7, I could see the case for, but this just looks lame. Regional stories from your own region are usually bad enough, watching those from another region is ten times worse!
MA
DId you read my previous post?
Scene Around Six, Reporting Scotland, Points West etc all existed during Nationwide.
Brekkie Boy posted:
Bad idea IMO - what these type of programmes basically amount to is features branded as news!
Is this happening in the nations too - I can't see the loss of Wales Today, Reporting Scotland and Newsline going down to well, never mind the English regions.
Is this happening in the nations too - I can't see the loss of Wales Today, Reporting Scotland and Newsline going down to well, never mind the English regions.
DId you read my previous post?
Scene Around Six, Reporting Scotland, Points West etc all existed during Nationwide.
BR
DId you read my previous post?
Scene Around Six, Reporting Scotland, Points West etc all existed during Nationwide.
That was 25 years ago though - even if the branding remains within a "Nationwide" programme, it will be diminished as a result.
It's a move not about the news at all, but about the BBC pulling viewers away from Emmerdale in the difficult 7pm slot.
Personally I could see it backfiring with people wanting local news switching to ITV at 6pm and sticking with them for the Evening News and Emmerdale.
marksi posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
Bad idea IMO - what these type of programmes basically amount to is features branded as news!
Is this happening in the nations too - I can't see the loss of Wales Today, Reporting Scotland and Newsline going down to well, never mind the English regions.
Is this happening in the nations too - I can't see the loss of Wales Today, Reporting Scotland and Newsline going down to well, never mind the English regions.
DId you read my previous post?
Scene Around Six, Reporting Scotland, Points West etc all existed during Nationwide.
That was 25 years ago though - even if the branding remains within a "Nationwide" programme, it will be diminished as a result.
It's a move not about the news at all, but about the BBC pulling viewers away from Emmerdale in the difficult 7pm slot.
Personally I could see it backfiring with people wanting local news switching to ITV at 6pm and sticking with them for the Evening News and Emmerdale.
AN
I wouldn't have thought so at first, it's only supposed to be a four-week pilot. I guess the changes would happen if it went to a full series. I suppose this explains the half hour gap in the new N24 schedules and possibly why they said that Kaplinsky is currently on the Six (after all, it says they want a Natasha Kaplinsky-style presenter).
I do like in that story the usage of the phrase "a Natasha Kaplinsky-style presenter". I wonder what defines a Natasha Kaplinsky style presenter? and who besides Kaplinsky is one!
I don't like the idea, lengthening news programmes doesn't often work, especially when it is lengthened with light items. Look at the ITV Lunchtime News or Breakfast's post 8.30am section.
Also pushing back any regional content past 7pm will surely reduce the viewing figures of the regional programme
Andrew
Founding member
Newsreader posted:
tvnewsjunkie posted:
thanks.. if they brought this back I take it each regional opt would have to get new titles / name / set etc to be part of the 'nationwide' brand and not regional news programmes in their own right.. how did this work when it was originally on air?.
I wouldn't have thought so at first, it's only supposed to be a four-week pilot. I guess the changes would happen if it went to a full series. I suppose this explains the half hour gap in the new N24 schedules and possibly why they said that Kaplinsky is currently on the Six (after all, it says they want a Natasha Kaplinsky-style presenter).
I do like in that story the usage of the phrase "a Natasha Kaplinsky-style presenter". I wonder what defines a Natasha Kaplinsky style presenter? and who besides Kaplinsky is one!
I don't like the idea, lengthening news programmes doesn't often work, especially when it is lengthened with light items. Look at the ITV Lunchtime News or Breakfast's post 8.30am section.
Also pushing back any regional content past 7pm will surely reduce the viewing figures of the regional programme
NH
Nick Harvey
Founding member
Wasn't it Mr Bough and his cronies who FIRST used the phrase "Now it's time for the news where YOU are, as we go....... nationwide."?
That was the London out-cue into the regional/national programmes of the day, if I remember rightly.
You then had your regional programme, followed by Frank producing some other terrible line like "Welcome back, we're all together and up-to-date".
(Want to borrow my walking stick, marksi?)
That was the London out-cue into the regional/national programmes of the day, if I remember rightly.
You then had your regional programme, followed by Frank producing some other terrible line like "Welcome back, we're all together and up-to-date".
(Want to borrow my walking stick, marksi?)
IS
It's a move not about the news at all, but about the BBC pulling viewers away from Emmerdale in the difficult 7pm slot.
Which is not a bad thing, I'd much rather people watched something factual than a soap opera
But if the viewers are going to do that when the new programme starts they're probably very likely doing it already anyway
Brekkie Boy posted:
It's a move not about the news at all, but about the BBC pulling viewers away from Emmerdale in the difficult 7pm slot.
Which is not a bad thing, I'd much rather people watched something factual than a soap opera
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Personally I could see it backfiring with people wanting local news switching to ITV at 6pm and sticking with them for the Evening News and Emmerdale.
But if the viewers are going to do that when the new programme starts they're probably very likely doing it already anyway
IS
A very good idea to do it in August, as this is a notoriously quiet period for news, especially regional news. I would have thought that the actual production minutage of the regions will actually be higher as they'll be contributing to the national parts of the programme too.
Interesting that they will make it in one of the network production centres rather than London. For a start they no longer have network studios in Bristol or Birmingham and secondly if they're to have contributions into the networked programme like Nationwide did it's a little bit more difficult technically than it is into London.
Londoner posted:
Peter Fincham's enthusiasm for this idea has been reported before, but now we know there will be a month-long trial in August.
A very good idea to do it in August, as this is a notoriously quiet period for news, especially regional news. I would have thought that the actual production minutage of the regions will actually be higher as they'll be contributing to the national parts of the programme too.
Interesting that they will make it in one of the network production centres rather than London. For a start they no longer have network studios in Bristol or Birmingham and secondly if they're to have contributions into the networked programme like Nationwide did it's a little bit more difficult technically than it is into London.
WT
I think the best we can do is wait and see. Depending on the handling of it, this could be really good, and get rid of the annoying filler programme we always get from 7pm to 7.30pm
(by replacing it with an annoying half an hour extra of regional news)
RT
Interesting that they will make it in one of the network production centres rather than London. For a start they no longer have network studios in Bristol or Birmingham and secondly if they're to have contributions into the networked programme like Nationwide did it's a little bit more difficult technically than it is into London.
Don't see how they can. Not enough regional contribution circuits. Unless someone is switching stuff in London back up to the NPC?
Inspector Sands posted:
Interesting that they will make it in one of the network production centres rather than London. For a start they no longer have network studios in Bristol or Birmingham and secondly if they're to have contributions into the networked programme like Nationwide did it's a little bit more difficult technically than it is into London.
Don't see how they can. Not enough regional contribution circuits. Unless someone is switching stuff in London back up to the NPC?
AN
Would it be fair to assume that this "Natasha Kaplinsky-type" presenter will indeed be Natasha Kaplinsky? It would tie in with her description as being "current" presenter of the 6 O'Clock News.
Would be a shame, I find her particularly nauseating when she does fluffy stuff like this, she's a million times better with serious news.
Would be a shame, I find her particularly nauseating when she does fluffy stuff like this, she's a million times better with serious news.