BBC Newsline

Someone mentioned in the BBC TWO New idents thread (which seems to have disappeared) that BBC NI's regional news, Newsline, had been de-corporatised.

Nothing so drastic, but a few changes have been made...

- 'BBC NEWS Northern Ireland' has been removed from title sequence end, replaced by website URL. Newsline logo made rather bigger and BBC logo placed above it.
- Lots of 'BBC NEWSLINE' logos placed on railings at back of studio.
- Aston colours changed from light blue to, er, darker blue. Live DOG colour now green.
- Astons identifying BBC personnel have a 'BBC NEWSLINE' logo underneath the name. Reporters now sign off with 'BBC Newsline' instead of 'BBC News' as was case from mid-2000 until now.

And thats it, though the removal of the BBC News name is interesting enough. And the Newsline Updates at 8pm and 9pm are rather good, encorporating a News 24 style countdown and good music...

Can someone in Northern Ireland capture this please? I would really like to see this Newsline countdown. Thanks.

Well The excellent TV Room has pictures.... http://www.thetvroom.com

TV room has pictures, but they aren't the new look BBC Newsline if you click the Newsline link.

Unless they're hidden

You have to click on 'What's New or whatever it is called. Then it gives you the direct link to the page with the new idents.

The BBC with the Newsline underneath in large letters is very much like what the BBC are going to be doing with all things in the future!

BTW: Why BBC Northern Ireland instead of BBC News? It seems stupid not to have BBC News when it's a BBC News production!

It's called de-corporatisation!

but when you see it properly full screen, the shadows on the new bits are much heavier than Newsline making it stand out more.

Unless that's the plan, then it looks awful.

Crap is the word you're looking for.

Hopefully, you've found the images on the site at this point? What was the problem...an old version of the page in the cache?

A BAD BAD move by BBC Northern Ireland if you ask me - for good ness sake, that was the whole point behind corporatisation. I quite liked seeing BBC NI resports on UK today and the BBC News payoff fitted in better. Since mid 2000 from when they changed from a simple Newsline payoff until yesterday when they changed from BBC News to BBC Newsline, I thought they were doing really well in creating a more superior image to what they had beforehand. Now BBC Newsline just sounds absolutely and utterly CRAP!!

Yet more signs of the BBC's corporate theme falling apart. They should learn that it never works!
It all starts off nice and pretty with everything looking the same, but once that's all done it's up to the team what they do with it.

Many programmes have already dropped certain elements of the corporate design from their programme, and eventually everything will just go their own way again.

I'm not saying a loose objective isn't good but when you try to make programmes the same, the team never like it and find they want to tinker it and it just ends up looking shoddy.

It's working now.  It was NTL's shoddy caching system.

Darn them and their 'we can better your sky digital package' phone calls.



(Edited by peterrocket at 9:17 pm on Nov. 20, 2001)

Ermm. I have just had this feeling after seeing about all this Newsline stuff that all the BBC Regions are about to follow this trend. More with Reporting Scotland for some reason.

Can someone capture this please so we can see it in action?

I prefered this appearing at the bottom of the titles:

[ B ][ B ][ C ] NEWS
Northern Ireland

For some reason, it's more asthetically pleasing than

[ B ][ B ][ C ] Northern Ireland

The astons look much better though.