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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - TheJarv - 06-03-2023

" A realy significant case here in the UK" almost making an apology for talking about it

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - watchingtv - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 01:38 PM)radio listener Wrote:  It all seems very jarring on BBC News channel.  I just wonder how long they can give this a go before people switch off and move to at least Sky News?

This is temporary for the month.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - Keith - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 12:53 PM)Newshound47 Wrote:  How many rehearsals do experienced presenters need? Can’t imagine more than about 15-20 hours.

I imagine that the rehearsals aren't just for the presenters benefit.

They'll presumably want to test out the new proposed schedule to see if it works, particularly around UK/global opt-outs and advert breaks. Rehearsals can confirm whether what should work on paper works in practice and in the event of problems how big or small the issue and solution may be. The solution might be a simple as needing to practice it a few times or as extreme as completely re-writing parts of the proposed schedule.

Far better for everyone that issues are identified and resolved off air in rehearsals, than having them occur on air.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - DTV - 06-03-2023

Some others have touched on it, but first UK specific breaking news incident - Wayne Couzens' sentencing. UK were taking live feed in run-up to midday (when World were on Sport Today), with it continuing on World as well briefly after 12:00. There was then a delayed headline sequence and it was the first story with Hockings discussing the importance of the story in the UK and pointing viewers to a live feed on the BBC News website. They then moved onto other stories after a few minutes, before later returning to the story for about four/five minutes.

Definitely different to how it would've been handled last week, but reasonable given the lack of a UK opt-out (which I presume would take the story from next month) and the fact the story is of little relevance to global viewers. In fact, arguably preferable to taking half-an-hour of very dreary sentencing procedure. More broadly, from what I've seen this morning, it's been fairly well-balanced for what it is - a reasonable number of UK stories, but not overshadowing more newsworthy international stories. The final quarter-of-an-hour seems to be particularly UK-focussed.

On an unrelated matter, are World taking quarter-past/-to ad breaks? If so, it's been fairly seamless, the only particularly awkward opt pause was when BBC Two opt away for Politics Live (which is always ridiculously long).

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - bakamann - 06-03-2023

Annita McVeigh now on Studio C for BBC World News, while BBC News at One, which is still on Studio E, on the UK channel.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - ALV - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 01:55 PM)DTV Wrote:  On an unrelated matter, are World taking quarter-past/-to ad breaks? If so, it's been fairly seamless, the only particularly awkward opt pause was when BBC Two opt away for Politics Live (which is always ridiculously long).

Nope, the simulcasts this morning have no quarter breaks and "This Week in History" fillers.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - Transmission - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 11:35 AM)mark Wrote:  Sorry if it's been covered earlier in the thread, but will there be a clock on the UK feed of the new channel?

While it's what we've come to expect from a news channel, arguably it's better not to have one nowadays as it's wrong for anyone watching online.

I can't imagine it won't have one. It's something that's been expected on news channels since long before even tickers were, and the convenience and usefulness to viewers outweighs the slight delay on some platforms.

Speaking of the clock, it did disappear for about 15 minutes at around 09:15 this morning, there were a few problems with the news channel ticker for a little while.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - Kojak - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 01:49 PM)Keith Wrote:  

(06-03-2023, 12:53 PM)Newshound47 Wrote:  How many rehearsals do experienced presenters need? Can’t imagine more than about 15-20 hours.

I imagine that the rehearsals aren't just for the presenters benefit. 

They'll presumably want to test out the new proposed schedule to see if it works, particularly around UK/global opt-outs and advert breaks.  Rehearsals can confirm whether what should work on paper works in practice and in the event of problems how big or small the issue and solution may be.  The solution might be a simple as needing to practice it a few times or as extreme as completely re-writing parts of the proposed schedule.

Far better for everyone that issues are identified and resolved off air in rehearsals, than having them occur on air.

Not just that, but they’ll need to rehearse all the new presentation styles they’re planning. Again, I can’t imagine it will require a whole month of all day, every day rehearsals, but there will need to be some.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - Rolling News - 06-03-2023

Seems as though the second half of the 1pm hour will also be UK only with Clive continuing in E.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - Kojak - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 02:43 PM)Rolling News Wrote:  Seems as though the second half of the 1pm hour will also be UK only with Clive continuing in E.

Good to see some form of UK-only non-simulcast output continuing. Though ‘BBC News 0.5’ just doesn’t quite have that ring to it…

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