Christmas Day Bulletins

GM

nodnirG kraM 13 December 2001 6:47pm

Ok, here I sit with my trusty Xmas Radio Times in my hand:

Christmas Eve - Monday 24th December:
BBC Two: 6.00am Breakfast with Asad Ahmad and Louise Minchin
BBC One: 1.05pm BBC News - no presenter listed
BBC One: 4.35pm BBC News - no presenter listed
BBC One: 11.15pm BBC News with George Alagiah
By the way, ITV1 have Shiulie Ghosh all day

Christmas Day - Tuesday 25th December:
BBC Two: 6.00am Breakfast with Darren Jordon
BBC One: 1.20pm 'News; weather (s) (w)'
BBC One: 4.30pm 'News; weather (s) (w)'
BBC One: 8.20pm BBC News with George Alagiah
ITV1: Nicholas Owen

Boxing Day - Wednesday 26th December:
BBC Two: 6.00am Breakfast with Asad Ahmad
BBC One: 1.40pm BBC News - no presenter listed
BBC One: 4.30pm BBC News - no presenter listed
BBC One: 11.05pm BBC News with Huw Edwards
ITV1: Mark Austin

And there you have it!
As Steve said, Peter Sissons makes a return for the Six and Ten (approx time) on the 27th and 28th.
Interestingly enough, Matthew Amroliwala is presenting the Ten on Saturday 29th and the mid-evening bulletin at 8.20 on Sunday the 30th ... a sign of things to come??

(Edited by nodnirG kraM at 8:58 pm on Dec. 13, 2001)

SE

Square Eyes Founding member 13 December 2001 6:52pm

Why has this thread suddenly cloned itself into 2 ? Ah well makes a refreshing change from disappearing threads I guess.

GM

nodnirG kraM 13 December 2001 6:53pm

It's quite bizare - All the threads just disappeared for me in the Lounge and now this one's giving double vision - makes it more noticible I suppose!!

HA

harshy Founding member 13 December 2001 9:35pm

Well I remember BBC World had Peter Coe on New Year's Eve last year!

GA

Gary Founding member 13 December 2001 10:20pm

I can't wait to see World over the festive season! All going to plan I'll have my new connection by Friday of next week!

BC

Blake Connolly Founding member 14 December 2001 12:11am

For the person who asked what they do on World on New Year's..

Last year whenever there was a major city in the world approaching midnight, they'd start the builetin about 20 or maybe just 15 or 10 seconds early, with no title sequence or anything, and cover the event live for a minuite or two. Sometimes they'd do a quick interview with someone on the scene.

So, for example at London's midnight, Big Ben was striking virtually as soon as they came on air, and they had someone in Trafalgar Square to talk to (basically about the lack of events in the City) and then after a minuite or two they went over to the rest of the day's news.

SN

Steve Naylor 15 December 2001 2:12pm

nodnirG kraM posted:

Ok, here I sit with my trusty Xmas Radio Times in my hand:

Christmas Eve - Monday 24th December:
BBC Two: 6.00am Breakfast with Asad Ahmad and Louise Minchin
BBC One: 1.05pm BBC News - no presenter listed
BBC One: 4.35pm BBC News - no presenter listed
BBC One: 11.15pm BBC News with George Alagiah
By the way, ITV1 have Shiulie Ghosh all day

Christmas Day - Tuesday 25th December:
BBC Two: 6.00am Breakfast with Darren Jordon
BBC One: 1.20pm 'News; weather (s) (w)'
BBC One: 4.30pm 'News; weather (s) (w)'
BBC One: 8.20pm BBC News with George Alagiah
ITV1: Nicholas Owen

Boxing Day - Wednesday 26th December:
BBC Two: 6.00am Breakfast with Asad Ahmad
BBC One: 1.40pm BBC News - no presenter listed
BBC One: 4.30pm BBC News - no presenter listed
BBC One: 11.05pm BBC News with Huw Edwards
ITV1: Mark Austin

And there you have it!
As Steve said, Peter Sissons makes a return for the Six and Ten (approx time) on the 27th and 28th.
Interestingly enough, Matthew Amroliwala is presenting the Ten on Saturday 29th and the mid-evening bulletin at 8.20 on Sunday the 30th ... a sign of things to come??

(Edited by nodnirG kraM at 8:58 pm on Dec. 13, 2001)

Over Christmas/New Year you usually get one presenter doing the main bulletins all day - so where there is none listed I expect the same one for the late evening will do it all day. As for Amroliwala at the weekend - he's been doing that for a while... although I suspect he will be used more in the future along with the other weekend presenters now George Alagiah is leaving.

MG

MikeG 15 December 2001 2:32pm

Great News - more of Matthew!

MG

MikeG 16 December 2001 4:54pm

So, then this is how it spans out Breakfast wise:

SAT 22 DEC BBC TWO Weekend 24 0600 - 0930
SUN 23 DEC BBC TWO Weekend 24 0600 - 0930
MON 24 DEC BBC TWO Breakfast 0600 - 0930
TUE 25 DEC BBC TWO Breakfast 0600 - 0910 - Why?
WED 26 DEC BBC TWO Breakfast 0600 - 0930
THU 27 DEC BBC TWO Breakfast 0600 - 0930
FRI 28 DEC BBC TWO Breakfast 0600 - 0930
SAT 29 DEC BBC TWO Weekend 24 0600 - 0930
SUN 30 DEC BBC TWO Weekend 24 0600 - 0930
MON 31 DEC BBC TWO Breakfast 0600 - 0930
TUE 1 JAN BBC TWO Breakfast 0600 - 0930
WED 2 JAN BBC TWO Breakfast 0600 - 0930
THU 3 JAN BBC TWO Breakfast 0600 - 0930
FR 4 JAN BBC TWO Breakfast 0600 - 0930

Has Breakfast been seen up to 0930? And what's going to happen on Christmas Day on News 24? Just have Breakfast then 'opt in' at 0910 to normal News 24? Seems stupid, why couldn't they just end at 0900?

IT

itsrobert Founding member 16 December 2001 5:48pm

MikeG posted:

So, then this is how it spans out Breakfast wise:

SAT 22 DEC � � � � �BBC TWO � � � Weekend 24 � � 0600 - 0930
SUN 23 DEC � � � � BBC TWO � � � Weekend 24 � � 0600 - 0930
MON 24 DEC � � � � BBC TWO � � � Breakfast � � � � 0600 - 0930
TUE 25 DEC � � � � �BBC TWO � � � Breakfast � � � � 0600 - 0910 - Why?
WED 26 DEC � � � � BBC TWO � � � Breakfast � � � � 0600 - 0930
THU 27 DEC � � � � � BBC TWO � � � Breakfast � � � � 0600 - 0930
FRI 28 DEC � � � � � �BBC TWO � � � Breakfast � � � � 0600 - 0930
SAT 29 DEC � � � � � BBC TWO � � � Weekend 24 � �0600 - 0930
SUN 30 DEC � � � � �BBC TWO � � � Weekend 24 � �0600 - 0930
MON 31 DEC � � � � �BBC TWO � � � Breakfast � � � � 0600 - 0930
TUE 1 JAN � � � � � � �BBC TWO � � � Breakfast � � � � 0600 - 0930
WED 2 JAN � � � � � �BBC TWO � � � Breakfast � � � � 0600 - 0930
THU 3 JAN � � � � � � �BBC TWO � � � Breakfast � � � � 0600 - 0930
FR 4 JAN � � � � � � � �BBC TWO � � � Breakfast � � � � 0600 - 0930

Has Breakfast been seen up to 0930? And what's going to happen on Christmas Day on News 24? Just have Breakfast then 'opt in' at 0910 to normal News 24? Seems stupid, why couldn't they just end at 0900?

Not quite! The 0600-0900 slot on a Sunday is called Breakfast, not Weekend 24.

Does anyone know yet who will be doing N24 on Xmas Day? Will they still have the regular slots, or take a weekend pattern, i.e. 0900-1300, 1300-1900, 1900-0000?

SN

Steve Naylor 16 December 2001 6:53pm

The opting in to News24 won't be a problem because throughout the Christmas/New Year period the programme will come from News24.

NG

noggin Founding member 16 December 2001 8:14pm

Techy Peep posted:

MikeG posted:

bbcworld2001 posted:

What happens on New Years eve when it turns 12 BBC News 24, do they show the weather, then countdown, or do they go to Big Ben after the weather or something, also with BBC World, do they say happey new year each hour as it is broadcast round the world and different countries will have new year nea enough each hour. �

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I'd have thought that they'd not show the weather when it's coming up to 12 and go to Big Ben. And for BBC World, they don't say Happy Xmas do they (I don't know - I'm just guessing after what I've read) so I doubt they'd say Happy New Year.

If you remember last year, the BBC went crazy for about 28 hours covering the new millennium in all corners of the globe. Not just BBC1, but World also mounted a similar service.

I don't know what N24 did - I was busy programming Charismas and DMEs all night

News 24 mounted a rather impressive 28 hour Millennium programme of their own Mr Techy Peep! It used two galleries - and almost every News 24 TD had to work on it bar one or two who got leave in the lottery.

The News 24 programme was very different to the BBC One programme, and showed far more of the Millennium celebrations around the world (almost every hour on the hour) Luckily Boris Yeltsin decided to resign as well - so News 24 had a decent News story. (I think BBC One ended up doing a 2 way with Jeremy Spake of Airport fame from Moscow - when News 24 got Allan Little)

As for BBC World at New Year - I think they don't say Happy New Year on the hour - because quite a few countries use a different calendar and celebrate New Year on different dates. (Russian and Greek Orthodox churches use a different calendar system, and the Japanese and Chinese New Years are also different I think)

(December 2001)