[Daveuk]

Take it the BBC News Design Director has no responsibility for the News Channel!

[Worzel]

Take it the BBC News Design Director has no responsibility for the News Channel!

Does make one wonder if the news channel presentationally is being run in silo from the rest of the news output!

[cando]

Have you all missed the bit where it was literally suggested that people would change channel because of it?

Even by this threads standards, it was a bit 

[ViridianFan]

Does make one wonder if the news channel presentationally is being run in silo from the rest of the news output!

Took the words right out of my mouth, although to give them credit they have moved away from the desk, we now have them in the hostage position. Got to admit no other uk news channel have that shot

[Stuart]

Does make one wonder if the news channel presentationally is being run in silo from the rest of the news output!

All the 30+ internationally broadcast channels are commercially successful, and some of that funds our domestic news service.  I wonder what people are expecting these days for so little money.

Even if they close the UK opts, they will still have to provide a national and regional news service.

I'd much rather they just broadcast the full international feed (sans adverts) and leave the bulletins to BBC One as do ITV1, C4 and C5.

This mangled mixture of a channel is a mess.

They can't even play out the same idents/titles with any element of regularity or coherence, let alone opt from one feed to another without it looking like a cheap cable channel from Cambodia.

[Radio_man]

All the 30+ internationally broadcast channels are commercially successful, and some of that funds our domestic news service.  I wonder what people are expecting these days for so little money.

Even if they close the UK opts, they will still have to provide a national and regional news service.

I'd much rather they just broadcast the full international feed (sans adverts) and leave the bulletins to BBC One as do ITV1, C4 and C5.

This mangled mixture of a channel is a mess.

They can't even play out the same idents/titles with any element of regularity or coherence, let alone opt from one feed to another without it looking like a cheap cable channel from Cambodia.

This has been my thoughts exactly since details of the merger trickled out, and even more so since the merger actually happened.

The BBC News Channel should have had a proper close down (and send off) on 31 March, with BBC World News taking over in full, 24/7, from 6pm on 31 March. 
No simulcasts of any domestic BBC 1 or 2 news or politics programmes, no simulcasts of Breakfast or the 1, 6 or 10 - just full BBC World News, 24 hours a day. It is quite ridiculous that the only country in the world that cannot watch the full BBC News International service is the very country where the service originates from.

But that ship has sailed and we're stuck with the fudge we've now got, that coincidentally, I now barely watch.

[Former Member 237]

People don’t change channel just because of the colour of the slug.

There’s genuine things to criticise but this is taking it to extremes!

I think it is hideous and as someone who sits in front of BBC News all day find it annoying. Yes I certainly would change channel if I could! It only makes the issue of trying to tell when there is breaking news worse. I'd rather have Sky News radioactive yellow.

[cando]

I’m sorry but the red is too harsh and like I said I got decent eyesight there’s too much red there, pres geek or none pres geek it’s a natural thing if it hurt peoples eyes they will therefore change over channel

Well it clearly hasn't stopped you...

[Brekkie]

It's that it is a solid strap constantly on screen too - even if it had a subtle animation (as little as some pulsating red rings) within it then it would probably look much better.

The ironic thing is I dread to think how many meetings they probably had about this before deciding to go ahead. The idea of a red strap really should have been thrown out at it's first suggestion.

[harshy]

Well it clearly hasn't stopped you...

I’ve stopped watching it sky news for me now :-)