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They'd surely need more staff to be able to react to any overnight news. With the current setup there is barely any time to cover anything that develops overnight. But with a longer bulletin if news broke overnight I'd have thought viewers would expect a duty correspondent for example
And if the bulletin had too many recycled bits from the previous evening I'm sure viewers would notice
Most regional news shows struggle to find 15 minutes of actual news for their evening bulletins, never mind one before 7am.
People don't really want in depth regional news in the morning - they just want the headlines and most importantly from the regions is weather and travel.
If you work it out properly is it actually 15 minutes?
Starts 1 minute late (due to commercials and promo's) and finish at least 3 minutes before 7am (for commercials and promos) then its only 11 minutes - enough time for news, sport, weather and travel.
Plus I don't agree with you that regional news find it a struggle to find 15 minutes worth of news. Is it not just a case that certain regional news programmes tend to feature on one part of the region? For example Granada Reports (my local news) is meant to cover Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester,Isle of Man and north parts of Derbyshire and yet the news covered just tend to be Manchester centric with a small bit over merseyside - very little from Cheshire, Lancashire or Isle of Man and yet I can guarantee that things do happen in those counties/country, just as much as they do in Greater Manchester/Merseyside.
So in your world they're going to start delving into part of the regions they don't bother with at 6pm for an early morning bulletin.
Anyhow, taking this in an opposite direction to the days when regional broadcasters had money did any regions actually attempt anything at breakfast in the days before TVam?
No what I am saying is that, in genral, the regions do not cover all of their regions as they should - even in the early evening bulletins. Anyway, as someone else stated the Breakfast slots (and if they ever did plan a 15 minute breakfast slot) then most of teh news would be repeat bulletins from the previous evenings shows - I have never stated, nor never will, that they would have fresh newly edited newly produced reports - that would cost far too much.
With regards to regional programmes at Breakfast - I do know that Yorkshire had its own breakfast service long before TVam!
Would there be any more resources needed? I mean, 15 minutes may be a stretch, but all they need is a slightly longer weather forecast and more reports (which would be recycled from the night before anyway, just like any footage is at the moment). Other than that it would be the same, no?
They'd surely need more staff to be able to react to any overnight news. With the current setup there is barely any time to cover anything that develops overnight. But with a longer bulletin if news broke overnight I'd have thought viewers would expect a duty correspondent for example
And if the bulletin had too many recycled bits from the previous evening I'm sure viewers would notice
Most regional news shows struggle to find 15 minutes of actual news for their evening bulletins, never mind one before 7am.
People don't really want in depth regional news in the morning - they just want the headlines and most importantly from the regions is weather and travel.
If you work it out properly is it actually 15 minutes?
Starts 1 minute late (due to commercials and promo's) and finish at least 3 minutes before 7am (for commercials and promos) then its only 11 minutes - enough time for news, sport, weather and travel.
Plus I don't agree with you that regional news find it a struggle to find 15 minutes worth of news. Is it not just a case that certain regional news programmes tend to feature on one part of the region? For example Granada Reports (my local news) is meant to cover Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester,Isle of Man and north parts of Derbyshire and yet the news covered just tend to be Manchester centric with a small bit over merseyside - very little from Cheshire, Lancashire or Isle of Man and yet I can guarantee that things do happen in those counties/country, just as much as they do in Greater Manchester/Merseyside.
So in your world they're going to start delving into part of the regions they don't bother with at 6pm for an early morning bulletin.
Anyhow, taking this in an opposite direction to the days when regional broadcasters had money did any regions actually attempt anything at breakfast in the days before TVam?
No what I am saying is that, in genral, the regions do not cover all of their regions as they should - even in the early evening bulletins. Anyway, as someone else stated the Breakfast slots (and if they ever did plan a 15 minute breakfast slot) then most of teh news would be repeat bulletins from the previous evenings shows - I have never stated, nor never will, that they would have fresh newly edited newly produced reports - that would cost far too much.
With regards to regional programmes at Breakfast - I do know that Yorkshire had its own breakfast service long before TVam!
