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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - DTV - 10-11-2022

(10-11-2022, 02:14 PM)Newsroom Wrote:  

(10-11-2022, 12:20 PM)Rolling News Wrote:  Was it mentioned on air this year? I know in 2017 they made quite a thing of it, by inviting back former presenters and playing old countdowns etc.

I doubt it. Its' funeral is rapidly approaching, hardly time to spend 30 mins celebrating it. I've not heard any presenters reference it either, not that I am paying attention 24/7.

Yeah, you can't exactly do a 'here to the next 25 years' when the channel has only about 25 weeks left.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - steve - 10-11-2022

(10-11-2022, 02:43 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote:  

(05-11-2022, 10:00 AM)JamesWorldNews Wrote:  I know he’s not everyone’s cup of tea (for some reason) but I always found Nicholas Witchell to be a strong and stable and thoroughly good news presenter. Not sure why he gets so much ridicule from certain quarters.

I think most of the stick he gets is for a perceived sycophancy towards the royal family.  Likely misplaced, it goes with the territory of the role really.

Absolutely, there is clearly a reason you have someone with such live broadcasting pedigree in that role and we saw that on the afternoon of 8th September. I thought his 'upsum' after the announcement was brilliant - clearly the sort of thing you formulate over many years, but you can't afford to have someone in the role at that moment on the BBC who gets it wrong - and they didn't.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Yorksman - 10-11-2022

(10-11-2022, 12:20 PM)Rolling News Wrote:  Was it mentioned on air this year? I know in 2017 they made quite a thing of it, by inviting back former presenters and playing old countdowns etc.

I have not heard any mention on screen.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Yorksman - 13-11-2022

On this day in 2001, a BBC Newsflash about a plane crash in New York (2 months and a day after 9/11):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFd_VO8zQ0w 

And, later that day a BBC News special with Gavin Esler and Michael Buerk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=177YfNv9pxE 

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Critique - 13-11-2022

I know that it has been said before, but it always refreshing to see how much quicker the pace was in those old clips of News 24. A to-the-point intro from the presenters, a short and sharp headline sequence, titles and then straight into it with the minimum of faffing.

By contrast, if the same programme were to be run today then there’d be a two minute headline sequence before the titles and no doubt some further preamble before the singular presenter (double heading seems a distant memory!) actually gets on with the programme properly. I’m reminded of how every simulcast BBC News bulletin during the peak of COVID started with something along the lines of ‘Hello and welcome to BBC News, whether you’re watching in the UK or around the world. Stay with us for the latest coronavirus news and information from here in the UK and around the globe’…

However, I guess the move from analogue is also partly responsible for things feeling a bit slower nowadays, as you’d never see the presenters cued so quickly after the cut from the ident to the studio these days. There’s always a pregnant pause around opt points that didn’t really seem to exist twenty years or so ago.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Yorksman - 13-11-2022

Totally agree the headlines are too long now as they go on for over 2 minutes these days.

Also, in the news special posted, was that the only time that Michael Buerk appeared in the News 24 studio?

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - AaronLancs - 13-11-2022

One thing worth mentioning with that BBC News Special is even though it came from the studio of News 24 the titles used were World's interestingly enough. Was there ever a "BBC News Special" version of the N24 titles ever done?

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - JamesWorldNews - 13-11-2022

It comes across quite strongly that Michael Buerk was definitely the lead presenter in that News Special.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Newsroom - 13-11-2022

(13-11-2022, 02:38 AM)AaronLancs Wrote:  One thing worth mentioning with that BBC News Special is even though it came from the studio of News 24 the titles used were World's interestingly enough. Was there ever a "BBC News Special" version of the N24 titles ever done?

I can’t recall a News Special that used the N24 titles. The Iraq War Specials also utilised the World music, but with special titles.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Andrew - 13-11-2022

(13-11-2022, 08:11 AM)JamesWorldNews Wrote:  It comes across quite strongly that Michael Buerk was definitely the lead presenter in that News Special.

I’m thinking in his entire career Michael Buerk rarely presented alongside someone else

The Nine/Ten was obviously single headed, in the old days when he did the One that was single headed, and I’m not sure he was did the double headed Six much

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