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One O'Clock News could be replaced by News 24 simulcast

(October 2004)

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DO
Dog
Moz posted:
How easy would it be for the following scenario to happen...?

Say that the One is dropped and BBC ONE and News 24 are simulcasting a half hour programme with Maxine & Chris. During the programme, a major story breaks. Viewers are invited to join Chris on News 24 for further coverage or stay on BBC ONE for the rest of the news. Chris disappears to a separate area to concentrate on this breaking news while Maxine carries on with the scheduled bulletin.

The separate area for Chris couldn't be the current left & right hand sets due to sound-proofing reasons, but could something be set up behind them in the newsroom?

Obviously there'd be issues with needing more staff to deal with the two separate feeds (though still less that what's needed daily at present), but is the equipment there in the News 24 gallery to cope with such a scenario?

James Hatts posted:
Last Thursday Geoff Hoon made a statement in the Commons on UK troop deployment at 1.15pm. News 24 were able to show this in full, doubtless with comment and analysis on either side of the statement.


This would be easy, they could just say the statement continues on News 24, rest of news on BBC ONE, and just take the Parliament feed on News 24.


For your suggestion to work it would need a whole other gallery, staff and studio. Your suggestion may as well be to keep a seperate One.

If the One does go, then i'd have thought N24 would still break news between 1300-1330, but would not go off in depth; ie continuing with the round up.

60 days later

LO
Londoner
Media Guardian posted:
[Helen] Boaden said she would resist the widely touted money-saving option of merging the News 24 and BBC1 lunchtime bulletins, saying: "It's not looking like it's on the cards."

But Mr Thompson, also quoted in Ariel, said he was not ruling anything out when it came to cost-cutting in BBC News.

"Two bulletins at 1pm or an extra £1m to put into investigations on BBC1? We need to weigh the trade offs," he added.

More at http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1399178,00.html
MO
Moz
Quote:
She has singled out her her six top priorities for funding and resources as The Today Programme , the Six and Ten O'Clock News bulletins on BBC1, BBC2's Newsnight , rolling news channel News 24 and the BBC News website .


But if you read further, the thing they want to stop most is when people are interviewed three times by three different outlets when the 2nd & 3rd outlet could have just used the interview from the 1st outlet.

Realistically though, how much money would this save?
MA
marksi
Moz posted:
Quote:
She has singled out her her six top priorities for funding and resources as The Today Programme , the Six and Ten O'Clock News bulletins on BBC1, BBC2's Newsnight , rolling news channel News 24 and the BBC News website .


But if you read further, the thing they want to stop most is when people are interviewed three times by three different outlets when the 2nd & 3rd outlet could have just used the interview from the 1st outlet.

Realistically though, how much money would this save?


If three different BBC radio channels are recording what is effectively the same interview three times and you reduce it to one, then you will save two-thirds of the cost.

I'd agree with this policy wholeheartedly. ONE interview for TV, ONE interview for radio.
MO
Moz
marksi posted:
If three different BBC radio channels are recording what is effectively the same interview three times and you reduce it to one, then you will save two-thirds of the cost.

I'd agree with this policy wholeheartedly. ONE interview for TV, ONE interview for radio.


If a minister is being interviewed on the Today programme and then walks to another studio to do an interview for Five Live that won't cost anything for Five Live. Their studio is on air anyway.

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