[ViridianFan]

True, but the savings that come from cutting presenters were always going to be modest - it's a tiny fraction of the previous channels' budgets.

With the savings they’ve made being swallowed up by pay increases for the board. I’ve just thought out of interest I’d see how much of a pay rise members of the board have received whilst at the same time making the cuts they have. 

The top ten paid executives have received between them over £200k with Tim Davie having received £75k of that! I would love to know how they can justify that when the output of the bbc in general seems much poorer and the reductions in services.  Yes the license fee freeze hasn’t help but IMO when you are in an organisation such as the BBC you need to be leading by example and saying we know we have to make reductions and it’s painful but we won’t be taking pay rises either.  My father is the director of a large company and has recently done the same thing as his argument was you can’t expect staff to not have rises and to take one. 

Back to the news channel. They need to accept and acknowledge that at the moment this mixed set up is not working and do something about. Whilst UK viewers aren’t happy, in the grand scheme there isn’t much we can do apart from complain, if world viewers don’t like it they’ll stop buying into it which ultimately reduces the amount of money it brings in making the whole situation worse.

[DTV]

Part of me wonders why they didn’t just stick with the existing World News strands. Less upheaval for international viewers, looks like a refresh for domestic viewers, rather than the current branded shows that are really just the same as each other.

Honestly, I don't think they need branded programmes at all and am a little surprised, given the whole 'back to basics' thrust of the relaunch, that they didn't just stick with BBC News all day, everyday. I know such a set-up would disappoint certain people on here, but unless you're actually doing something different with each branded programme - in terms of regional/topic focus or format - then it's not really necessary. The three big afternoon World News strands were hardly particularly distinct towards the end anyway.

[harshy]

I can only think they bought these branded shows In to please the advertisers, I can’t think what else it could be because other then the programme name being different, nothing else is different from a standard bbc news bulletin, it’s the worst attempt at branded programmes I’ve ever seen on bbc news.

They need to fix those botched bbc news titles, there’s at least two versions running depending on what time of the day you are watching.

[thomalex]

Is anyone ever going to fix the uplighter on the left column by the touch screen in B. Been out for months!

[harryb]

Is anyone even going to fix the uplighter on the left column by the touch screen in B. Been out for months!

I think it’s meant to be like that. The lights alternate between white and red but the red isn’t very obvious.

[DTV]

it’s the worst attempt at branded programmes I’ve ever seen on bbc news.

Newsroom Live would like a word. I mean, that was a programme whose distinctive format consisted of switching the placement of the sports headlines and main sports update and whose branding was basically putting some AfterEffects filters on the main BBC News titles.

[harshy]

Newsroom Live would like a word. I mean, that was a programme whose distinctive format consisted of switching the placement of the sports headlines and main sports update and whose branding was basically putting some AfterEffects filters on the main BBC News titles.

Yeah the news channels attempts was woeful, I am comparing to the likes of GMT, Impact, Global, they were proper produced titles with a fantastic theme tune.

[LDN]

Someone seems to have forgotten to change the graphics template, the News at One going out with BBC London branded straps (on BBC One feed, not the NC feed).

Also a post-titles pan shot I've not yet seen, camera starting from the main tower then moving towards Ben at the explainer/weather screen.

EDIT: At roughly 1:25pm the straps were changed back to BBC News.

For those who missed it... 

BBC News at 1 headlines with BBC London bug:
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Lower-thirds with BBC London bug (and bonus 'flashing images' warning):
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...and the aforementioned pan from the monolith to the giant touchscreen: 
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Does anyone actually touch the touchscreen these days?

[KatsKaravan]

This feels like more a rearranging of the deckchairs with BBC News to review if it needs more presenters for the channel, or more specifically the streaming opt outs.

I've felt all along this ad-hoc format will probably end up less efficient than running two channels (well, one and a third) was. 

deadline.com 

So even the star presenters dislike the new arrangements. Gee, I wonder if the self-styled spokespeople here have tucked in to any humble pie yet?

[ConorW2000]

I wonder if they are still planning on giving News at 1,6 and 10 completely new titles.

The current ones do seem a little too cheap imo.