UK Today

MA

Marcus Founding member 25 August 2001 3:30pm

BBC World has consintrated its marketing in areas where traditionally the BBC has has a large audiance on Radio and area thought to be important growing economys. It has large penetration throughout America, Asia and Africa

(Edited by marcus at 10:05 pm on Aug. 25, 2001)

SO

SittingOvation 25 August 2001 9:24pm

cheshirec posted:

UK Today is very useful for BBC Online. The streamed news bulletins (which do incorporate UK Today in them) are far better to the international viewer with UK Today in them.
Previously it was NRSE, but for international viewers it is a great deal more interesting to get the entire UK coverage, not just a region like the South East.

I agree. Even when (or if) BBC regions become available on digital satellite, UK Today should still exist for the numerous other purposes it serves.

Namely for BBC network news streams online (as you've cited, cheshirec), and as the fallback for when regions become temporarily unavailable on any or all platforms.

Also, I understand that BBC Two on digital terrestrial and cable shows UK Today at 15:25 on weekday afternoons. I presume that this is beacause as regional slots on BBC Two are so few and far-between, the BBC see it as a waste of license-payers' money to install the technology that makes regions possible on ANY digital platform (whether it be satellite, cable or terrestrial) for this channel.

Ditto for BBC News 24, as regions are only an issue beween 06:00-09:00 weekday mornings, during the Breakfast programme it shares with BBC One.

TP

Techy Peep Founding member 26 August 2001 1:58am

cheshirec posted:

Pedrosa is a very good presenter. I expect she moved back when CNN turned Hong Kong into a production centre? Sorry, center.

Juanita Phillips may be the one you're thinking of?

Yes, Juanita! Thanks!

Veronica moved back to US for personal reasons

CA

cat 26 August 2001 4:44pm

That's reminded me, I really must tape CNN This Morning's ident, it's really rather good.

CNN International really does need more hour long news programmes, less of the 'CNN World Report', can't stand that programme.

CNNI is becoming a more business focused channel, World News seems to be less of a priority for CNN these days. And it may be me not noticing but since Sonya Rusler (sp) left CNN, none of the World News bulletins come from Washington.

IT

itsrobert Founding member 27 August 2001 11:07am

Well, I can confirm that Nici Marx was on Breakfast this morning with Chris Eakin. This must mean she is a freelance, like Brenda Paterson.

TP

Techy Peep Founding member 27 August 2001 4:08pm

Nici also does Radio 4 I believe

RD

rdd Founding member 27 August 2001 6:45pm

cheshirec posted:

Also, if you're interested, he talked about how they would like to remove the namechecks at the end of reports - so instead of someone saying 'SoandSo - North West Tonight, in Somewhere', they would say 'soandso, BBC News, in Somewhere'.
It is basically because of the fact that the average viewer wouldn't understand where the 'Spotlight' or 'Newsline' regions are.
Although he said that they didn't have the technology available to do that, although it surely cannot be that difficult?

Not needed for Newsline - since they went corporate, reporters have said 'BBC News' instead of 'Newsline' when they namecheck.

SO

SittingOvation 28 August 2001 1:08am

rdd posted:

Not needed for Newsline - since they went corporate, reporters have said 'BBC News' instead of 'Newsline' when they namecheck.

Ditto for Midlands Today. But you have to watch Midlands Today reports on UK Today to find that out, because on MT they cut from the end of report back to the studio before the namecheck has been said. The MT studio presenter then says: 'that was (name) reporting from (place)'.

(Edited by sittingovation at 1:11 am on Aug. 28, 2001)

(August 2001)