LL
London Lite
Founding member
[quote:0401478801="KA_UK" pid="1068635"]That's what it's called isn't it? OK maybe BBC Six O'clock news?[/quote]
BBC News at 6.
BBC News at 6.
KN
BBC News at Six (though George Alagiah calls it the BBC's News at Six).
That's what it's called isn't it? OK maybe BBC Six O'clock news?
BBC News at Six (though George Alagiah calls it the BBC's News at Six).
RW
Robert Williams
Founding member
I've never liked the BBC trying to call its news programmes News at One/Six/Ten. It was ITN who traditionally had 'News at x', while the BBC equivalents were 'x o'clock News'. Now, at least as far as the early evening bulletins are concerned, they seemed to have switched places - it used to be the BBC Evening News and ITV News at 5.45 - now it's BBC News at Six and ITV Evening News.
Sue Barker is just like most people outside the media and forums like these who I'm sure still use the old 'o'clock' names for the BBC bulletins. I can't understand why they don't just go with the flow and revert to those names which I think sound much better anyway. It's a bit like some BBC local radio stations dropping the word 'Radio' - for example, for many years the capital's station was called BBC London 94.9, but the listeners didn't call it that, they called it Radio London. So in 2015 they decided to go back to using that name.
Sue Barker is just like most people outside the media and forums like these who I'm sure still use the old 'o'clock' names for the BBC bulletins. I can't understand why they don't just go with the flow and revert to those names which I think sound much better anyway. It's a bit like some BBC local radio stations dropping the word 'Radio' - for example, for many years the capital's station was called BBC London 94.9, but the listeners didn't call it that, they called it Radio London. So in 2015 they decided to go back to using that name.
ST
BBC Radio Manchester tried the same thing, becoming "BBC GMR" from 1988-2006, before reverting to the original name.
It's a bit like some BBC local radio stations dropping the word 'Radio' - for example, for many years the capital's station was called BBC London 94.9, but the listeners didn't call it that, they called it Radio London. So in 2015 they decided to go back to using that name.
BBC Radio Manchester tried the same thing, becoming "BBC GMR" from 1988-2006, before reverting to the original name.
JA
Don't forget Radio 7 was "BBC7" for the first couple of years, leading to quite a few people thinkign it was a TV channel, till they added the "radio" to the name.
LS
Lou Scannon
Isn't there currently still huge variations across BBC (English) Local Radio stations as to whether the word "Radio" is an official part of the name or not? And haven't some have chopped-and-changed their minds in this regard, over the years?
It's understandable to omit it from stations with longer geographical descriptions (e.g. BBC Coventry & Warwickshire) to avoid the name being ridiculously long, but for most/all other stations I think including the word Radio sounds better.
It's understandable to omit it from stations with longer geographical descriptions (e.g. BBC Coventry & Warwickshire) to avoid the name being ridiculously long, but for most/all other stations I think including the word Radio sounds better.