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Davidjb posted:
how many news 24 viewers are there overnight?
about one!
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Davidjb
Founding member
just been doing a bit of maths and ive worked out that when world takes news 24 feed it is on these hours in australia.
11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 East Coast
08.00, 09.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 West Coast.
it must seem strange to them
(these timings may be an hour or two incorrect cause i have to revert back to gmt timezone first which is of course an hour behing bst.)
(Edited by Davidjb at 10:24 pm on May 28, 2001)
11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 East Coast
08.00, 09.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 West Coast.
it must seem strange to them
(these timings may be an hour or two incorrect cause i have to revert back to gmt timezone first which is of course an hour behing bst.)
(Edited by Davidjb at 10:24 pm on May 28, 2001)
GA
Yes I think it's absolutely disgusting that this happens. Imagine yourself watching BBC World in somewhere like Australia at 10.00am then at 11.00am suddenly the whole type of presentation and music changes. And it then returns to the normal style at 16.00pm. What are the BBC doing? If I was living there, I would be very confused and angry!
Gary.
Gary
Founding member
Davidjb posted:
just been doing a bit of maths and ive worked out that when world takes news 24 feed it is on these hours in australia.
11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 East Coast
08.00, 09.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 West Coast.
it must seem strange to them
(these timings may be an hour or two incorrect cause i have to revert back to gmt timezone first which is of course an hour behing bst.)
(Edited by Davidjb at 10:24 pm on May 28, 2001)
11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 East Coast
08.00, 09.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 West Coast.
it must seem strange to them
(these timings may be an hour or two incorrect cause i have to revert back to gmt timezone first which is of course an hour behing bst.)
(Edited by Davidjb at 10:24 pm on May 28, 2001)
Yes I think it's absolutely disgusting that this happens. Imagine yourself watching BBC World in somewhere like Australia at 10.00am then at 11.00am suddenly the whole type of presentation and music changes. And it then returns to the normal style at 16.00pm. What are the BBC doing? If I was living there, I would be very confused and angry!
Gary.
HA
Well, you'll be pleased to know that BBC World viewers will also be able to watch the UK general election as well!
(Edited by harshy at 10:13 am on June 2, 2001)
(Edited by harshy at 10:14 am on June 2, 2001)
harshy
Founding member
Blake Connolly posted:
OK, speaking as someone who's spending a lot of time very far away from home, here's what I think about BBC WORLD.
It's pretty good as far as international news is concerned, with all of it's many correspondents around the world, but of course as far as breaking news is concerned, CNN is much faster.
The problem for me is how poorly it serves British people abroad in favour of getting a wider international audience. Where I am right now (the Philippines), I can get international channels from Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, China, Korea, the USA and many more which specifically cater for thier own people, whether ex-pats or holidaymakers or whatever. From the UK, there's just BBC WORLD, and apart from the odd Panorama episode every so often, there's very poor UK coverage.
Now, I'm not saying they should give up on the priority on world news, just that they should throw in a programme on the half hour a couple of times a day, just like CNN International do with American Edition. Or maybe show the 1, 6 and 10 bullitins. And it is sad, by the way, that so far CNN seems to be doing better coverage on the election campaign, using ITN's reports.
I know that there's BBC PRIME and BBC AMERICA, but they're not avaliable here in Asia, and neither is Sky News. Apart from when there's something major like foot and mouth, the only decent way for me to find out what's happening at home apart from going to a net cafe is by either staying up till 4am to watch the BBC News at 6 (with the headline and coming up sequences edited out so as to aviod the regional bits) on Japanese TV, or watch the little news bits on Bloomburg when they take the breakfast show from London.
Anyway, that's my little rant over.
It's pretty good as far as international news is concerned, with all of it's many correspondents around the world, but of course as far as breaking news is concerned, CNN is much faster.
The problem for me is how poorly it serves British people abroad in favour of getting a wider international audience. Where I am right now (the Philippines), I can get international channels from Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, China, Korea, the USA and many more which specifically cater for thier own people, whether ex-pats or holidaymakers or whatever. From the UK, there's just BBC WORLD, and apart from the odd Panorama episode every so often, there's very poor UK coverage.
Now, I'm not saying they should give up on the priority on world news, just that they should throw in a programme on the half hour a couple of times a day, just like CNN International do with American Edition. Or maybe show the 1, 6 and 10 bullitins. And it is sad, by the way, that so far CNN seems to be doing better coverage on the election campaign, using ITN's reports.
I know that there's BBC PRIME and BBC AMERICA, but they're not avaliable here in Asia, and neither is Sky News. Apart from when there's something major like foot and mouth, the only decent way for me to find out what's happening at home apart from going to a net cafe is by either staying up till 4am to watch the BBC News at 6 (with the headline and coming up sequences edited out so as to aviod the regional bits) on Japanese TV, or watch the little news bits on Bloomburg when they take the breakfast show from London.
Anyway, that's my little rant over.
Well, you'll be pleased to know that BBC World viewers will also be able to watch the UK general election as well!
(Edited by harshy at 10:13 am on June 2, 2001)
(Edited by harshy at 10:14 am on June 2, 2001)
NS
Well, you'll be pleased to know that BBC World viewers will also be able to watch the UK general election as well!
(Edited by harshy at 10:13 am on June 2, 2001)
But it's not the same programme as on BBC1 and N24 - it'll be a BBC World special with Nik Gowing and Martine Dennis.
(Edited by harshy at 10:14 am on June 2, 2001)
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NickyS
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Well, you'll be pleased to know that BBC World viewers will also be able to watch the UK general election as well!
(Edited by harshy at 10:13 am on June 2, 2001)
But it's not the same programme as on BBC1 and N24 - it'll be a BBC World special with Nik Gowing and Martine Dennis.
(Edited by harshy at 10:14 am on June 2, 2001)
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