BBC London News

RW

RW 20 September 2001 7:10am

At long last...

http://www.users.nascr.net/~rgwill/LDN1.jpg

http://www.users.nascr.net/~rgwill/LDN2.jpg

http://www.users.nascr.net/~rgwill/LDN3.jpg

It actually looks pretty good - and the music's quite cool; a sort of a combination of the drums and beeps, with the BBC London Live jingle.

AJ

Aaron J Tibbett 20 September 2001 7:11am

Yes! I saw it!

I normally flick over for Emmerdale, but tonight I saw it!!

AS

Asa Admin 20 September 2001 7:17am

The look looks okayish.

But 'BBC LDN' as the proper title name on the opening titles (I assume from the background monitor) is *so* tacky!

Cheers, Asa

CA

cat 20 September 2001 7:20am

Where did they film that? The ITN Building?

NS

NickyS Founding member 20 September 2001 7:21am

yes LDN is everywhere ....
and note the fishtank!

SE

Square Eyes Founding member 20 September 2001 7:24am

Oh no, I'm not keen on that, it looks like an IKEA showroom again.

MA

mark Founding member 20 September 2001 7:25am

Blimey - looks more like Watchdog/Tomorrow's World than the news! Still, a very interesting and ultra-modern look, and pretty radical given that you'd have thought that the London region would have a bigger than average number of politician/business types who might prefer their news the old-fashioned way

RA

Richard A 20 September 2001 7:26am

Who are those women? I don't recognise them.

NS

NickyS Founding member 20 September 2001 7:28am

Richard A posted:

Who are those women? I don't recognise them.

Emily - main presenter
Brenda - entertainment correspondent

DY

DaveYorks 20 September 2001 7:28am

I really like it! It'll be really interesting to see how it all comes together on 1st October! Is that when the website/radio station relaunch as well?!

MM

Mr Me 20 September 2001 7:30am

It looks 'metropolitan' - all ikea and posh coffee kinda look, suppose it outght to if it is a show for London - but London aint all ikea and posh cofffee - honest!. Have to wait and see I suppose - though by the look of that i cant imagine, for example, the morning travel reports coming from there.

BB

BringBackThames 20 September 2001 7:30am

OH MY GOD! I know I'll probably be attacked for saying this but I think it looks awful! It looks like a Starbucks/Internet Cafe! And as for LDN - what was wrong with the O-N and the other O. Are the BBC so short of cash that including them would be too costly?

Me thinks this a blatant attempt to get the news to look 'groovy' and 'hip'. (I bet that's what the focus group said when they were asked)

I hope I'm wrong in my next point but I hope that this doesn't lead to a dumbing-down with more entertainment and sport at the cost of proper news - it's bad enough on London Tonight we don't need the Beeb going down the same route!

So once again London regional news is being sacrificed this time for more soft 'news'. I just hope this doesn't last too long!

Am I the only one who thinks there should be a different style of presentation for the news - namely a desk at least and preferably a blue colour scheme?! I probably am but I don't care!

Am I also the only person that thinks the news should be for news - not entertainment, gossip and sport? Especially sport - there's more than enough sport programmes available for it not to clutter up the news and you could also say that it does sport a disservice only being a 5 minute block in the news.

IMHO this is unbelievably awful from what I've seen so far. I will need a lot of convincing otherwise!

(September 2001)