25-03-2023, 01:06 AM
BBC News broadcasting from E tonight.
(24-03-2023, 02:58 PM)mccanmat Wrote: Shame focus on Africa is not on in the UK - it’s a good programme and brings variety to the schedule
(24-03-2023, 06:27 PM)London Lite Wrote: I can see why they haven't gone for Focus on Africa on the NC, but there's a sizable African population in the UK who may tune into to see 30 mins of news from the continent.They don't do daylight savings in Africa so during a portion of the year it will be at 5:30 in the UK and then at 6:30 during the other portion.
(24-03-2023, 04:44 PM)bakamann Wrote:(24-03-2023, 04:30 PM)Kojak Wrote: I think (but don't know!) that that was never going to be until the autumn anyway. AFAIK it is still part of the plan - but I'd love to be proven wrong!
As someone from overseas, I kinda assumed that BBC Radio's "flagship" morning news radio show was Radio 4 Today, considering that Mishal Husein decided to drop her "Impact" show on BBCWN to present the radio program.
I somewhat believed that, maybe, that's gonna be the radio program that's gonna have a TV simulcast. Maybe part-R4 Today and part-Breakfast with sign language, not some random phone-in program on 5Live.
(25-03-2023, 02:34 AM)Independent Wrote:(24-03-2023, 02:58 PM)mccanmat Wrote: Shame focus on Africa is not on in the UK - it’s a good programme and brings variety to the schedule(24-03-2023, 06:27 PM)London Lite Wrote: I can see why they haven't gone for Focus on Africa on the NC, but there's a sizable African population in the UK who may tune into to see 30 mins of news from the continent.They don't do daylight savings in Africa so during a portion of the year it will be at 5:30 in the UK and then at 6:30 during the other portion.
(24-03-2023, 04:51 PM)ALV Wrote: With the NC taking the 5 minute editions of Click with WN, fully integrating with WN's schedule, I'm strongly suspecting the NC's TX will originate from Red Bee (and be integrated as one of the WN regions) beginning April 3rd, maybe starting at 6AM.Either that or they will take the “clean feed” (fillers instead of ads) from Red Bee and put it through the router in NBH, switching feeds there when required as they do now.
The galleries in NBH will solely output live news programmes and no longer play out the weather and promos to sustain the channel. We might get to see WN stuff on the NC like the time-lapse fillers, breakbumpers... Sadly there's no news on the switching arrangements, so we might only know until the actual day of launch.
(17-03-2023, 12:59 PM)Radio_man Wrote: One thing that I do prefer since full time joint operation started, is the shorter, sharper headline sequences. No fillers and faffing around with pointless vox pops, "we'll be taking a look at/analysing.........", inserts from a reporter etc. Just the headlines and into the bulletin in just over 60 seconds.True, we don’t need “and I’m here in a market in Wetherby to find out what traders and customers make of the budget” in the headline sequence!
It does stand out now for UK viewers compared to the 1/6/10 where the headlines are still padded out with pointless filler, dragging it out to 2 and half minutes before the bulletin actually starts.
(25-03-2023, 06:02 AM)leewilliams Wrote: People will be pleased to hear Newswatch tackled the endless Guide Dogs repeats in fairly amusing style (7’30” in):Typical mealy-mouthed BBC response at the end there. (Paraphrasing here) “We realise that some documentaries are so important that we like to show them more than once.” Ok, fine - but EVERY night for a week?! Why not just admit it was a (technical?) balls-up?
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(25-03-2023, 01:12 PM)harshy Wrote: Context must be one of the shortest runs ever on bbc news, it didn’t seem to be on for two long, oh well and only nine more days to go before the bbc world news name is banished to the history books.One of the shortest, but Worklife and a few of the early News 24 programmes didn't even make a year. There are also a few 'editions' of programmes that didn't last long - the multiple editions of Newsdesk that existed between March and October 1997, the first European Breakfast version of The World Today that only lasted five months, the first Nik Gowing edition of World News Today that only lasted eight months and, more recently, the evening edition of Business Live which managed just over a year. Frontline with Lyse Doucet didn't even make it to air, ultimately replaced by a new edition of World News Today that was itself replaced by a Friday edition of Impact after only eight months.
(25-03-2023, 02:34 AM)Independent Wrote:This has traditionally been the case, but it appears it might be being pegged to 17:30 UKT all year from now on (or moved an hour earlier) - the provisional schedules could be wrong, but Asia-targetted programming used to shift and they discontinued that.(24-03-2023, 02:58 PM)mccanmat Wrote: Shame focus on Africa is not on in the UK - it’s a good programme and brings variety to the schedule(24-03-2023, 06:27 PM)London Lite Wrote: I can see why they haven't gone for Focus on Africa on the NC, but there's a sizable African population in the UK who may tune into to see 30 mins of news from the continent.They don't do daylight savings in Africa so during a portion of the year it will be at 5:30 in the UK and then at 6:30 during the other portion.