Changes to BBC Parliament & Political Programming

You know that could catch on - it might make sense for BBC One HD to use the regional ident of the region whose Sunday Politics or Inside Out is being shown, with their own announcement, just to reinforce that it's a regional programme being shown nationally? I think that back in the days of Welsh programmes being shown on "certain transmitters only" they had the Cardiff CA introduce them on network with a BBC Cymru symbol, so some precedent for that.

The brief view of the NW ident was unintentional. A different network ident played out first on BBC One HD, explaining that the upcoming programme was the NW version; they simply allowed Salford to become the network feed a tadge too early.

In the first few weeks of BBC One HD they did that for Inside Out, but then dropped the practice.

Definitely a recent decision to move Marr to 10:

For people asking, The Jeremy Corbyn interview was pre-recorded at 9 because when he accepted the invite that was the time of the Marr Show. Since then we have moved to 10am and he was unable to move with us. So it was our fault and it is unedited.

— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) September 23, 2018

It’s as if when ITV announced they were leaving the ten o’clock slot, the BBC seized the opportunity. Now where have we heard that story before?

Considering HD was with Sunday Politics NW as the Labour Party Conference is in Liverpool, I won't be surprised if next week it's Sunday Politics Midlands in glorious upscaled SD from Birmingham next week with the Tory Party conference.

iPlayer for some reason has Sunday Politics North West on the London entry.

That suggests that someone has assumed BBC One HD England will carry BBC London's show, whereas this week it showed BBC One North West's? (They are rotating - as they do with Inside Out - though I wonder if it will only be around the HD nations and regions - Scotland, South West, North West, London and Northern Ireland?)

I think it was FAR more to do with the Premier League highlights rules changing this season.

Peston really didn't trouble Marr in ratings terms, and Marr was at 0900 for a long time before Peston launched.

This was almost certainly a channel decision to move Match of The Day to a later slot to increase ratings for it.

Whatever the ratings, I find it hard to believe they'd have moved to 10am if Peston was still on there - quite an aggressive move against another PSB that would have got a lot of criticism. The Peston move was announced way back in the summer, with the Sunday Politics ending around the same time, so I imagine a few factors including the Premier League thing came together over the summer.

Politics Live was a lot better on location today from Liverpool. No more than two guests at the same time, one-on-one interviews, a decent VT with John McDonnell, followed by his speech to Conference live. The only dumbed down part was an interview with The Noisettes.



They'd be no reason to simulcast the nations which already have HD variations. I already speculated that next Sunday would be Sunday Politics Midlands as the Tory Conference is in Birmingham.

iPlayer has resolved the SP London episode issue.

That's a very good point! I guess we'll get upscaled SD of the non-HD regions potentially then.