[Former Member 406]

Some of the piecemeal changes to elements of BBC News programmes' graphics (wipes etc) in recent-ish times have seemingly been showing the general direction of travel to be moving away from anything derived from the stripey globes (arcs, circles etc) and towards straight horizontal/vertical lines, squares/rectangles etc.

The at-launch looks of "(The) Context" and BBC Three's "The Catch Up" I therefore took to be indicative of the sort of thing which might eventually come to general news output like the One/Six/Ten/NC etc. That may well still prove to be the case, if/when the anticipated "spring 2023" refresh ever materialises.

The Context now essentially moving in the exact opposite direction (dropping a look based largely on rectangles, in favour of arcs/curves/circles) is therefore a perplexing surprise. And yet, conversely, The Context now has the more usual BBC News colour palette of red & white compared to its previous bespoke colour scheme.

It wouldn't now surprise me (although I don't think it's particularly likely) if Newsnight also finally succumbed to adopting the standard BBC News red colour (albeit presumably paired with black rather than white, to retain the logically "night" feel that its very name begs). Especially given that it's now simulcast on the NC, which - if The Context's new look is anything to go by - may now be trying to get away from bespoke colour palettes for anything that's "news" output (as opposed to e.g. Click, Nicky Campbell, Sportsday, The Travel Show, etc).

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[sparkyb28]

It seems BBC News has pulled this weeks Newswatch. It’s nowhere to be seen in the schedules. Obviously it talking about the BBC news changes is purely coincidental 😀

[Reith85]

So Newswatch has made it to air on Breakfast. There was a viewer bemoaning the loss of the ticker and I thought the other viewer who was interviewed was quite good at outlining why the merged channel isn't serving UK audiences.

As usual, though, your usual anodyne, faceless BBC News response about how it's an evolving process. Just how many times can they wheel out that excuse to paper over the glaring cracks?

[Rolling News]

I’m guessing no one was available to comment/make excuses as they just replayed part of the interview with Paul Royall from 3 weeks ago.

[cando]

Why would they bother? It's the usual cranks with too much time on their hands that care

[harshy]

It’s obvious they are not interested in the linear news channel in the Uk, that’s why it’s reduced to the bare minimum but enough to keep the regulators at bay, if we are to see anything decent like the new titles yesterday on the context, it will be from the global division of the channel.

[TJTSW]

It did make me chuckle that Newswatch went on about the Ticker/Flipper & made me think of the coversations in here, but its clear America is more important when it comes to News

[MFTJA]

Here's one of the oddities of BBC News International presentation. The Kyrgyz bulletin seems to have moved into a green screen version of Studio B. Is there an old and new BBC logo in the same shot? You bet. 
https://youtu.be/zO8dxn2qn-U

[bilky asko]

I meant there isn’t enough contrast between the dark red and the black, sorry.

Well if you can read them there clearly IS enough contrast.

If you’re reading something you’re not familiar with then fair enough, but it’s obvious to most that it says BBC and NEWS. It doesn’t need to be clear.

Like the blocks which make up the 4 in Channel 4. They didn’t even make up a 4 in many of their idents, but you knew what it was.

Branding doesn’t have to be clear.

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They’ve fixed the Newsnight Aston overlap. And more importantly the junction between the Ten and Newsnight on BBC News is quite clean of late.

That explanation would make sense if it didn't look so awful. The chameleon branding is clear elsewhere, so to have it so unclear in this case just looks slapdash (and will be unreadable for some people)