Tonight's Ten O'Clock News on News 24

Surfed through the Ten O'Clock news simultaneous broadcast on BBC News 24 this evening - and Simon McCoy popped up at the end of the report on Japanese whaling to say "Now I hand you to the News 24 studio" or similar.

It looked like this was a pre-recorded link played out by News 24, rather than a live link also seen on BBC One.

Quite a neat solution to a klunky opt-out before the BBC One sport (was stuff being shown that News 24 didn't have rights to?) - but otherwise - isn't recording a link like this a bit dangerous (even dishonest?)

Sounds ideal to me - I wonder how close to broadcast that link could be made? The shorter the time, the less people could complain about its recorded nature I guess.

It would also help tighten up that awful spiel at the end of the Six.

You can see the Daily Mail headline though - "BBC RECORDS NEWS BULLETIN"

I don't see what the problem is with recording a link to a live news channel? It fixes an untidy junction and its extremely unlikely the Ten would be more informative if there was breaking news.

I think it's slightly misleading which isn't ideal. I'm sure they could just end the programme separately and be done with the messy ending all together. I dislike it when local news records interviews and then plays them back 'as live' with the presenter pretending to thank guests who aren't there anymore.

why on bank holidays and weekends for example on the ten last night are the reigonal headlines not shown in the sequence,it goes straight from the nationals to the opening titles

its the same with the weekend updates

I think because the Saturday and Sunday bulletins only have regional news after the teatime national bulletin, it was felt better to be consistent and not headline regional stories at all over the weekend. (You couldn't run a regional headline during the Sunday Ten as there is no regional news bulletin in it or after it)

The bank holidays traditionally follow the sunday model.

Some regions also use a staffing model closer to breakfast for their weekend bulletins, so they may struggle to do the headline opt cleanly.

Look North in Hull do it all the time.

Yes, but Look Hull isn't a news programme!

Of course, my mistake.