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Sunday night BBC News

(April 2005)

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Square Eyes Founding member
Haven't they got this all wrong on a Sunday tea time / evening ?

Tonight we have news at 7.40pm then again at 10pm, either side of Indiana Jones again (haven't the BBC worn those tapes out by now).

What was wrong with the tea time bulletin about 5.30 / 6pm ?
JA
jamesmd
Square Eyes posted:
Haven't they got this all wrong on a Sunday tea time / evening ?

Tonight we have news at 7.40pm then again at 10pm, either side of Indiana Jones again (haven't the BBC worn those tapes out by now).

What was wrong with the tea time bulletin about 5.30 / 6pm ?


IMO they should run it as per weekdays, with a 1:00, 6:00 hour bulletin, and a 10:00 bulletin. But that would be too logical.
WE
Westy2
I may be barking up the wrong tree here, but bearing in mind a good majority of regional news programs & 'Politics Shows' share either or both studio/galleries, how long does it take to reprogram the computer from PS style captions to regional news style captions & vice versa?

Would the 'later' news been a request from the regions, to 'put things right' ?
AN
Andrew Founding member
The ending of tonight's bulletin seemed different than usual as well. Fiona did her sign off and handed over to the weather. Then there was 2 or 3 trailers before the Regional News came on. Was there any reason for this change of order
NW
nwtv2003
James Hall posted:
Square Eyes posted:
Haven't they got this all wrong on a Sunday tea time / evening ?

Tonight we have news at 7.40pm then again at 10pm, either side of Indiana Jones again (haven't the BBC worn those tapes out by now).

What was wrong with the tea time bulletin about 5.30 / 6pm ?


IMO they should run it as per weekdays, with a 1:00, 6:00 hour bulletin, and a 10:00 bulletin. But that would be too logical.


RTÉ run their Six One and Nine bulletins over the weekend, which makes sense, at least the BBC should run the Six over the weekend, but fit it into a half hour slot or something similar.

But the BBC for some rather peculiar reason like to show the News on a Sunday night at the same time as Coronation Street.
NS
NickyS Founding member
Andrew posted:
The ending of tonight's bulletin seemed different than usual as well. Fiona did her sign off and handed over to the weather. Then there was 2 or 3 trailers before the Regional News came on. Was there any reason for this change of order

just guessing but did some of the nations have to run Party Election Broadcasts - like for the SNP/Irish parties who don't always get a full national PEB. They would probably fit if they dropped the national weather and a few trails?
MA
marksi
NickyS posted:
Andrew posted:
The ending of tonight's bulletin seemed different than usual as well. Fiona did her sign off and handed over to the weather. Then there was 2 or 3 trailers before the Regional News came on. Was there any reason for this change of order

just guessing but did some of the nations have to run Party Election Broadcasts - like for the SNP/Irish parties who don't always get a full national PEB. They would probably fit if they dropped the national weather and a few trails?


That's exactly why - here in NI we had a PEB, and that's why Fiona B left me a nice pause to opt out on before she handed to weather, which we weren't showing.
AN
Andrew Founding member
marksi posted:
NickyS posted:
Andrew posted:
The ending of tonight's bulletin seemed different than usual as well. Fiona did her sign off and handed over to the weather. Then there was 2 or 3 trailers before the Regional News came on. Was there any reason for this change of order

just guessing but did some of the nations have to run Party Election Broadcasts - like for the SNP/Irish parties who don't always get a full national PEB. They would probably fit if they dropped the national weather and a few trails?


That's exactly why - here in NI we had a PEB, and that's why Fiona B left me a nice pause to opt out on before she handed to weather, which we weren't showing.

oh right, I noticed the pause, a bloody big pause, a network director would have had time to run from the toilet and opt out in time. I just thought it was Fiona loosing it for a moment
MA
marksi
Andrew posted:
marksi posted:
NickyS posted:
Andrew posted:
The ending of tonight's bulletin seemed different than usual as well. Fiona did her sign off and handed over to the weather. Then there was 2 or 3 trailers before the Regional News came on. Was there any reason for this change of order

just guessing but did some of the nations have to run Party Election Broadcasts - like for the SNP/Irish parties who don't always get a full national PEB. They would probably fit if they dropped the national weather and a few trails?


That's exactly why - here in NI we had a PEB, and that's why Fiona B left me a nice pause to opt out on before she handed to weather, which we weren't showing.

oh right, I noticed the pause, a bloody big pause, a network director would have had time to run from the toilet and opt out in time. I just thought it was Fiona loosing it for a moment


Well, she probably thinks we need as much time as an English Region to get out cleanly. Laughing
WI
william Founding member
Square Eyes posted:
Haven't they got this all wrong on a Sunday tea time / evening ?

Tonight we have news at 7.40pm then again at 10pm, either side of Indiana Jones again (haven't the BBC worn those tapes out by now).

What was wrong with the tea time bulletin about 5.30 / 6pm ?


Exactly, and its the same for the next two weeks too!

Sun 1 May:
1940 News, regional news and weather
2010 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
2200 News and weather

Sun 8 May:
1935 News, regional news and weather
2000 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2200 News and weather

(source: Digiguide)

It wasn't as though there was any live sport earlier today either to mess the schedule up. Stand to be corrected, but I'd hazard a guess that two main bulletins within the space of two hours might be a record.
MA
marksi
But it's been like this for months!
JA
jamesmd
nwtv2003 posted:
James Hall posted:
Square Eyes posted:
Haven't they got this all wrong on a Sunday tea time / evening ?

Tonight we have news at 7.40pm then again at 10pm, either side of Indiana Jones again (haven't the BBC worn those tapes out by now).

What was wrong with the tea time bulletin about 5.30 / 6pm ?


IMO they should run it as per weekdays, with a 1:00, 6:00 hour bulletin, and a 10:00 bulletin. But that would be too logical.


RTÉ run their Six One and Nine bulletins over the weekend, which makes sense, at least the BBC should run the Six over the weekend, but fit it into a half hour slot or something similar.

But the BBC for some rather peculiar reason like to show the News on a Sunday night at the same time as Coronation Street.


One thing that annoys me about weekends is why they feel the need to shunt the bulletins to fit the schedule. For fùck's sake, it's the news at when, never mind news at Ten. do what ITV does and put the bulletin at a fixed time and let the schedule work around that. Logical, no?

I don't give a stuff if Indiana Jones is interrupted, it's crap anyway.

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