New look Newyddion

EDTV,

People tend to refer to network news programmes as 'national news', this is a bit inaccurate becuase they actually cover inter national news. However there is a UK bias - i.e. stories happening abroad have to have at least some relevence to the UK, and major stories happening within the UK often take precedence (sp?) over stories happening elsewhere (the likes of the current USA/Afghanistan etc crisis creates exceptions).

Newyddion works in the same way, but there's three levels, not two:

BBC News: World news, with UK bias.

Newyddion BBC: World news, with UK bias, then Welsh bias above that.

IMAGINARY EXAMPLE: Something happening in France that for some reason is relevent to UK. But when you break the UK down into it's separate nations the French events only really affect Scotland and England. So wheras this France news story makes it onto BBC News, it doesn't make it onto Newyddion BBC, as it's not relevent to Wales.

So, Newyddion BBC will not feature all the stories from the same day's BBC News. To make up for those network stories they don't use, they'll feature some BBC Wales Today stories - i.e. stories that only effect Wales.

That's why the show's called Newyddion BBC (BBC News), rather than having a region title such as Cymru Heddiw BBC (BBC Wales Today). Because it doesn't just feature regional news - a fact also reflected in most of the title sequences Newyddion's ever used (including the current generic one), which feature the whole globe, not just the shape of Wales.

Incidentally, BBC World has banned presenters from wearing poppies!

How do you know that?

Sorry to be technical but poppies are worn to signify a rememberance to all who have died in war - not just WW1. They are though worn for 11/11 as a rememberance to the armistace of 1918.

There, an A* in History not wasted, eh?

The BBC made an announcement saying that as poppies are only worn in the UK, poppies on BBC World would seem pointless as they wouldn't be recognised. And it also says a lack of poppies would help the channel compete with CNN (how???)

I can't see how it will help the BBC to compete with CNN. Sky presenters wear poppies and Sky News gets far more viewers in Europe than BBC World. The BBC put ratings above honouring the lives of thousands of people? Because that's what it looks like.

The situation is similar with Christmas trees on BBC News 24. BBC News 24 is a DOMESTIC service, not an international one. As the vast majority of BBC News 24's audience do celebrate Christmas then it would be nice to see that reflected in the channel's presentation. Do you honestly think that members of different faiths get offended because there's a decorated tree in the background? And although I'm an atheist, and Christmas carries no religious meaning for me, I do think it's important that channels do make a little bit of effort around Christmas time.

Pathetic.