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New BBC News 24 website

(June 2001)

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itsrobert Founding member
I was going to suggest a News 24 ident after the countdown and before the headlines the other day, but I though I would get bombed into submission for saying such a thing, like I did when I suggested BBC News Reports should have short stings - which BBC World do have by the way. (They use the overnight sting with Breaking News under it!)

But, a very good idea!

Another suggestion, I think overnight, instead of playing the News 24 ident at *.30, they should do a similar one with the BBC News Overnight tune, it would be very good!
SN
SkyNews
Rely to question about Rageh Omar.

He's the Beeb's new Africa Corresp
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Davidjb Founding member
another job well done by BBC NEWS.
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harshy Founding member
mdta posted:
considering all the graphix changes bbc news 24 business have gone through, i think its all because of business today starting on monday


Take a look at this thread for the reply

http://www.tvhome.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=1&topic=772
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NickyS Founding member
Some of the pictures on the site are very old - in fact the one of the gallery that was mentioned is not actually News 24's current gallery ... it's the one used by BBC World as so was taken in the old 'flags' era when News 24 came from what is now BBC World. Although the galleries look basically the same.
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Davidjb Founding member
the n24 gallery. is that the room we see to our right. the presenters left???
RU
RadioUK
That is a fantastic website. Well done BBC News!
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Davidjb Founding member
lets hope the website makes news 24 more well known across the uk. oh yeah bring back the name
'BBC Newsday 24'
AS
Asa Admin
Totally boring and picky comment this but...

why bbc.co.uk/bbcnews24 ?

Especially when you look at other digital channel addresses:

bbc.co.uk/choice
bbc.co.uk/knowledge

even bbc.co.uk/parliament redirects to the BBC Parliament section (although hasn't been updated in years by the look of it!)

Why not bbc.co.uk/news24 ?

BBC Online seem to have been doing some daft things recently. There was one URL advertised onscreen, that just gives a 404 error message and even 'Residents' on BBC Two has a webaddress with 'the' stuck in front of it. Why?!

Rant over.

Cheers, Asa
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Davidjb Founding member
why dont we see

bbc.co.uk/one
bbc.co.uk/two
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harshy Founding member
I wonder if the DOG on the top right hand corner will change to www.bbc.co.uk/bbcnews24?

I would promote the site on the news 24 ident, where BBC NEWS would normally be.
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NickyS Founding member
harshy posted:
I wonder if the DOG on the top right hand corner will change to www.bbc.co.uk/bbcnews24?

I would promote the site on the news 24 ident, where BBC NEWS would normally be.

You may have seen that they've started to plug the website on air .. for example promoting election coverage during the news summaries (I saw it at 2.30pm).

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