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Newsround and Newsnight

(August 2001)

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NG
noggin Founding member
Newsround is a BBC Childrens' production, but is staffed technically by BBC News resources for studio production and picture editing.

Basically they use the same facilities as BBC News, but they have their own reporters and production team who work for BBC Childrens'. Until relatively recently it was directed by a BBC News director, but it is now directed by the programme producer.

Newsnight is BBC News programme, but used to be part of BBC Current Affairs (who also produced Breakfast Time, Nationwide/Sixty Minutes from Lime Grove?), before they merged with News (who were based at TV Centre) to form News and Current Affairs, which was then shortened to BBC News. Newsnight has its own dedicated production team, based in a different newsroom, and is still deemed nominally to be a current affairs show, with a different agenda/style to the main BBC One/Two news. It will run more in-depth, featurey, reports not directly related to the 'breaking news' agenda of the day. It therefore has a different brand to reflect the different content of the show, which as Steve says, it is pretty protective of!

(The old Newsnight Wales and Ireland opts were more in the corporate brand, and the remaining Newsnight Scotland opt is also a half way house, as it comes from the Reporting Scotland set, but with moodier lighting, and different graphics!)
SO
SittingOvation
MikeG posted:


So why does the 10 O' Clock News always advertise the fact that Newsnight is 'starting now on BBC Two'?


Now there's a point, the slight overlap of the two programmes (what with 'the 10' finishing at 22:35ish, and Newsnight starting at 22:30) is a rather clumsy piece of sheduling - especially if the formaer programme is going to promote the latter.
NS
NickyS Founding member
SittingOvation posted:
MikeG posted:


So why does the 10 O' Clock News always advertise the fact that Newsnight is 'starting now on BBC Two'?


Now there's a point, the slight overlap of the two programmes (what with 'the 10' finishing at 22:35ish, and Newsnight starting at 22:30) is a rather clumsy piece of sheduling - especially if the formaer programme is going to promote the latter.

Well Newsnight doesn't start at 2230 anymore ... basically it goes on air at around 2233 ... thus when the Ten plug it starting you can normally turn over and they'll be on the opening titles or just going into first story.
NG
noggin Founding member
Indeed - the Ten is usually 32'30' minutes long.

When the Ten launched, the regional opt doubled in length to 6'30' and moved to be within the programme, and the actual main news in the Ten was shrunk a little relative to the Nine.

Old Nine
27'00' news + closing headline
3'15' regional opt
30'15' Total

New Ten
25'30' news
6'30' regional opt
30' closing headlines
32'30' Total

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