BBC News 24 Background

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a distinct lack of activity behind the set of BBC News 24? LOL

Surely the professional feel would be conveyed better by showing a hustling newsroom! Just an observation

Daniel

That's why BBC News 24 is so boring!

With World, you have got a proper newsroom atmoshphere, you have got a control room to look at and you can still see BBC News 24 behind the presenter(well today behind Adrian Finighan anyway!)

I reckon the staff at News 24 are too shy to walk around in the background - only the seasoned broadcaster/journalist has the courage to walk past.

I notice the folk on the computers behind the News 24 desk often sit down and put headphones on - are they spending too much time on Isonstine TV or Napster?

youre lucky to even see anyone on them computers cause it seems to be a rare occasion. i normmally only see people running along there cause its lunchtime.

Yeah, BBC News 24, just dosen't have the atmosphere, while World has it meaning you can never get bored!

The computers you see behind the news 24 set are the picture editing computers (Omnibus). The main seats for the journalists are to the right as you watch the TV as is the gallery. You often can't see people sitting behind them.

Yes, always seem strange to me that with such an amazing News Centre at the BBC they don't make more use of the whole thing. Surely you could put a news desk in the middle of the newsroom or on the top level looking down over the main level?!

BBC News 24 Flag Era had its desk at the top level of the complex and they usually opened with a view of the newsroom zooming in.

I say bring back the flag style, but use the corporate look still.

Back in the Flag days, Presenters would talk to each other often, they would ask you to e-mail in your comments, and the views were so open and informal.

One thing we have never discussed is the possibility of BBC News 24 being relaunched to be like BBC World. I reckon that if BBC News 24 have 30 minute news programs on the hour ('World News') and then another program in the second half of the hour, I think the viewing figures would rise. I think that when people switch over the News 24, they imediately see News and the pull of that news isn't very large because the viewer knows that News is more of less all they're going to see because it's continuous. If they have proper news programs which end at Half past, viewers will more than likely sit and watch until the end of the news program, see that there's an interesting program on next and sit and watch that too. I think the BBC could be doing so much more to hold it's viewers.

Yeah, I liked News 24 during the flags era.

It was informal and that was the intention. The flags were different from the normal and it was their for UK viewers to get a different view.

Also male presenters didn't have to wear their jackets which was again giving the informal style.

Of course that all changed with the corporate look and it soon became a bit boring!

But wasn't it the fact that the audience didn't like the informal look, therefore audiences didn't grow? To counteract this, they went corporate with a definitive 'BBC News' style for the channel to be instantly recognised amongst the other BBC News productions and therefore seen as a respected news channel?

Cheers, Asa

Indeed that was the general idea!

Many people criticized because of its studio and presenters style.

I liked style, it gets too dry sometimes if you just have news, news, news and be serious all the time!

I think regional news conveys the mix very well. With hard news and good banter. Peter and Paul are a good example of it!