Plug for BBCi every BOTH

Why do News 24 STILL plug BBCi so much. "...and a reminder if you want any more on any of those stories, you can just press the red button on your remote and get six mini-screens with the latest news, sport, weather, business and more on our top story..."! The presenters must get sick of saying it and I am certainly sick of hearing it. Wouldn't an aston do?

They even tell lies about it saying that there are six screens. For Freeview viewers there's just two.

Please can someone who works there ask them to stop!?

I have heard some presenters distinguish between the number of screens.

Well... it's not exactly a lie, because it is six screens for Sky viewers! But, I know what you mean. It is misleading. It implies that the six-screen look is what all viewers will get, whereas (as you've said) us Freeview viewers don't!

By the way, what does...



...mean?

Typing error?

You have poor English language skills ?

"B.O.T.H." (rather than "both") stands for something (in which case, I don't know what it stands for )???

Bottom of the hour

Meaning circa xx:55, right?

I'll probably now get asked what "circa" means!

Perhaps .

No - meaning half past the hour (ie when the minute hand is pointing to the bottom of the clock)

Worth adding that it seems to have evolved from talking about *.00 as the Top of the Hour or TOTH.

It's a bit of an American-ism that is slowly reaching us and is becoming more frenquently used.

Presumably because of the different timezones. Whereas in this country a newsreader can say 'It's 6 o'clock and here are tonight's top stories', an American newsreader might say something more along the lines of 'And at the top of the hour...'