BBC News (UK) presentation - Reith launch onwards

Newswatch viewers - zzz. I really hope the BBC don't cave into the moaners and change the graphics, they're without doubt the biggest change we've seen in quite a while, even more so than other graphics packages - in terms of the use of different fonts, and for me, the introduction of a flipper.

I can't fault them, and my favourite element certainly is the breaking news straps - they're bold, but clear. I love the 'breaking' that flashes when it first pops up.

My only bug bear (aside from Victoria Derbyshire desperately needing another redesign to match the new graphics) is that the flipper has so little content on it. Five or six news headlines, contact and interactive information. Really? Surely, surely, the software can cope with more information - why no sport, why no business? It really does bewilder me.

I don't know whether it's true of all TOTH sequences on the News Channel but I'm grateful to the subtitlers for moving the subtitles to the top of the screen for the TOTH sequences on the BBC One bulletins.

I wouldn't worry. In all the years I've watched things like Newswatch and Points of View, the BBC only ever pays lip service to the opinions aired and, at best, brushes them off with some facile corporate response.

Dateline London remains unchanged with the Helvetica font currently still in its opening graphics at present, and also still has the original Gill Sans version of the BBC News Logo on the endboard. (As seen below)

Interesting to see the flipper with no clock or BBC News strip above it during the Victoria Derbyshire: Week In Review programme.

I ask again. How many stories did it used to have when it was a ticker? I’m sure it was only about 4 or 5 news stories.

At the moment the Film Review is on and the flipper is just showing 4 breaking news headlines. I think this is a good idea - a way of keeping us up to date with this while other content is on. It’s right that they’re not showing other news on it so that the breaking news is front and centre.

I think it seemed like more stories before as the stories would have taken longer to scroll across the screen. But now as they are shown in full quicker, it seems as though they are repeating the same things over and over again.

There used to be sport stories and often Business and markets/currencies in the World hours.

BBC Sport updates during the weekend news bulletins using the sport graphics like on the NC

I still have one major gripe with the new graphics... the fact the flipper has to be taken off screen for the quarter & half past headlines.

If I was the BBC, I’d shrink the text slightly (not majorly) and move it up the screen to accommodate the flipper. Bish, bash, bosh - job done!

Or just drop the text on the quarter hour at least. IMO the flipper does look much better and is far easier to read than the ticker but some stories do require more than one line and could do with another line to put the story into context, and flipping between different lines of a story is no worse than it scrolling across was.