I was curious how the "9.00am News" was done on BBC2 on Saturday mornings, was it a seperate bulletin from the BBC News studio, did "Weekend 24" just continue, or does BBC2 opt out of News 24 and then opt back in, for those of you who don't know, it turns out its the latter which happens.
anyway, at 9am, BBC2 pres opted back into News 24 and caught the final second of the countdown
then at 9.04am, Louise Minchin told BBC2 viewers that we were leaving her, BBC2 went to trailers, and then Louise carried on with the next story talking over the top of the trailer!
then at 9.05am, at the start of Hardtalk, the BBC2 Fish ident music carried on over the opening titles!
I don't unserstand why they just don't stay with N24 for the few seconds and then opt back.
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MikeG
I don't know why they have the bulletin at all! OK, so HARDtalk is getting a terrestrial showing and it's only 24 mins long but surely they could have put HARDtalk on at 0900 then had a filler programme (like that weather one from a few years back) to make up the time?
Also, didn't BBC Two start showing a lot of News 24 programmes recently - Simpson's World, HARDtalk, Talking Movies? Anyone know why they drop them at their will - surely consistency is the key?
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nodnirG kraM
Yeah but if they did that they'd have to run the Headlines ticker at the bottom. I don't know what the "Headlines Every 15 Minutes" policy says about the TOTH headlines but I would have thought it was preferable to have the main storys at the top of the hour as per normal rather than a refresher.
Why do they use this "Weekend 24" branding, when to me it just looks like Breakfast from BBC News 24, except they use standard News 24 titles
Also, as Breakfast or whatever only features from 00 to 30 mins past, don't you think that the programmes should be included in BBC1 and BBC2's listings, including overnight. I don't think it would be very hard to say '6.00am Breakfast Presented by Sian Williams, Includes World Review at 6.30 and 7.30...' etc
Well I have to agree with you Andrew, I do feel the Weekend 24 branding is a little useless as the titles clearly state BBC News 24, and should be branded as such.
Weekend 24 is a different show than Brekkie on Sunday. For a start the 8-9 bit isn't full of the vile little shows and it has the weekly paper review and lots of in-depthness.
BBC2 is really starting to annoy me! Into Widescreen programs they are showing 4:3 idents. We had a 4:3 version of Screen Clean into Sunday Grandstand. It has to be switched back and looks very untidy.
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BBC912
Well at least the BBC still bother most of the time to match the ident ratio with preceeding program's ratio. ITV don't bother doing this and five don't either. I'm not sure about Channel 4 though.
Well at least the BBC still bother most of the time to match the ident ratio with preceeding program's ratio. ITV don't bother doing this and five don't either. I'm not sure about Channel 4 though.
channel 4 always do 16:9 idents then often do a sharp cut or fade to a 4:3 show.
BBC2 is really starting to annoy me! Into Widescreen programs they are showing 4:3 idents. We had a 4:3 version of Screen Clean into Sunday Grandstand. It has to be switched back and looks very untidy.
I think that may be because the ident goes out in 4:3 on analogue, to match Sunday Grandstand going out in 4:3 on analogue, and someone got their networks or AFDs in a twist...
I think its better to have all the junctions in Widescreen - you see so much more and the digital viewers are rewarded! Especially when show the BBC One idents in 4:3 they look wrong. Its much better when capturing as well - you can get a decent ident at every Channel 4 & ITV1 junction without worrying about ratios. But the BBC wont go 100% widescreen during idents.