Reporting Scotland

Lol - well I appreciate you being subtle - you would have been quite within your right to call me a thick wad as I've just twigged it is Tuesday - am in Chester for a month - so I forgot - sorry.

LOL. Don't be sorry. I didn't really understand what you were saying, so I thought I'd just let you know Sally was on yesterday.

I have to say, since the move to the Pacific Quay, the picture quality has been much better on Reporting Scotland. The studio shots are very good, along with most OBs.

There is no longer a horrible bright shots with no colour depth in them!

Reporting Scotland is a bloody joke.

Train derailment in Glasgow - ok, so no-one is seriously hurt. However, it happened at peak time, thousands of travellers affected. The aftereffects were still felt hours later - up until at least 9pm. It doesn't merit a mention on our national news. I suspect had a similar incident happened on the tube, it would be on network, or at least BBC London.

What does? Some bloody woman teuchter from Argyll becoming a bloody beefeater in the Tower of London. For five minutes.

Altogether - who the f*** cares? (incidentally, one day that'll be a great STV continuity announcement...)

If the ponces at BBC Scotland can't look above their middle class, public schoolboy obsessions, then it's about time we had properly local news. At least that way if they're going to tell us about their latest obsession (a new form of bird, a cat stuck up a tree, or a new opera), then it'll at least be on our doorstep.

In a 'region' as big as Scotland, to have the same news for Shetland as you do Dumfries is a farce. Half the news is as relevant to me as North East and Cumbria (in fact, Newcastle is closer than half the stuff broadcast).

The result - what appears to be a box-ticking agenda. It feels like they're going round the areas and ticking off boxes for each. Emma Caldwell (Glasgow and West), beefeater (north west), schools (Edinburgh) etc...

Why would anyone in Glasgow care about school closures in Edinburgh, for example? (in fact many may secretly be pleased).

Rant over.

I can see what you are saying to some extent and pose the question if this is the running order with London based editors in charge of the main output - what would they do if Glasgow based editors took charge of a Scottish Six? The ticking all the boxes arguement may get even more complicated and more annoying?

Back to what we know though - with the BBC finances to pot - I can hardly see any huge changes to Reporting Scotland's coverage.

Indeed the whole of BBC Scotland News and Current Affairs will not get better any time soon.

Even with a rumoured relaunch I can only see cosmetic changes. I think we will either need to like or lump as they say!

The thing is though, Reporting Scotland is presumably running on a far, far smaller budget than Scotland Today. And yet I find STV's offering far more watchable and far more relevant. BBC Scotland staff keep making excuses for low standards and lack of regional content, but they are still publicly funded and as such are going to have a better deal than their commercial rivals. I fail to see why it would be difficult to introduce at least the same regional opt-outs as the two STVs and Border.

And the point about Glasgow deciding on a bulletin for the whole of Scotland is possibly a great example of why ultralocal bulletins are far more important than establishing what would essentially be an out-of-date concept, the Scottish Six. People don't just watch news at 6pm and 10pm any more - throw the investment instead at more local news, and possibly (in a dreamworld) regional optouts on News 24.

Totally agreed - but I cannot see this happening at all pcuk. The decision would be made down south and if there are rumblings of London holding back a new set of titles and graphics when Rep Scot moved to Pacific Quay - they would dig their heels in with any talk of localising bulletins.

Another thing - we Scots call Reporting Scotland our national news and then term areas such as Tayside and North East Scotland local. London based news bosses class BBC Scotland as 'local'.

As I say, there aint much chance of BBC Scotland doing much, and I think the jury is still out on the West Midlands local pilot as well. It does not seem to promising at all from where I am standing.

Did anyone see the Saturday evening Reporting Scotland news? BBC Scotland continuity at its best...

First of all as the national news handed over, a slide with an apology came on from BBC One Scotland, then it cut to the empty main Reporting Scotland studio ( empty except for the chair! ), then it cut to Abeer in the smaller studio, back to the apology slide, then back to Abeer who had obviously started reading the news...

At the end, as she said " and now here's Daniel Corbett with the weather ", on came a trail for Panorama, then the weather. Then after the weather, was a trail for the Eurovision Dance Contest announced as being on " Monday at 8 ".

BTW there was no Scottish weather - is this normal now? I know there haven't been any maps for a while, just " words " on screen ( a throwback to the 70s / 80s summaries ) but there was definitely no regional weather on Saturday...

There's already a thread for this: http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26060
Although, I don't know why squinnman didn't post here.

Waking up with Andrew Kerr on RPS Breakfast optout .What a great way to start the day

I don't mean to be pedantic, but the BBC does not classify all of Scotland as "local". Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are referred to as the Nations, while England is broken down into Regions. As you reference in your previous post, the "local" element of newscasting is on a much smaller scale, as evidenced in the Local TV Trial in the BBC Midlands region.

Could someone post a cap of this fellow, so that I can see what all the fuss is about?????