[shropshireguy28]

If the above is not in jest, so what is your suggestion for News Coverage in the Nations and Regions then? Local News in England is only available through BBC1. In NI too for example I expect there will be local TV Election programmes given at least four seats of eighteen (Lagan Valley, South Antrim, East Belfast and North Down) could be close in their result. UTV now a shadow of it's former self does an hour here and there of Election programmes and can't be relied upon to stay with things as their resources aren't as available as they once were. A difficult time for the schedulers yes but let's see some innovative solutions to serve all who have to pay the licence fee.

The news coverage can be what it is like now to be honest. BBC 1 should be for sport, news, entertainment. There is a news and parliament channel for local election programs or put the local election programs on BBC 4/BBC 2, BBC 1 IMO needs to be a bit of variety.

[qwerty123]

Is it this coming Monday the BBC News channel will have a spilt feed for UK only past highlighted recently in releation to the election?

Even if it’s this week it’s likely to be Tuesday as Monday is a bank holiday.

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The news coverage can be what it is like now to be honest. BBC 1 should be for sport, news, entertainment. There is a news and parliament channel for local election programs or put the local election programs on BBC 4/BBC 2, BBC 1 IMO needs to be a bit of variety.

Local programmes have to go on BBC1 for technical reasons unless you’re suggesting having a different region go out across the whole country each night for a couple of weeks to get through them all.

[Brekkie]

Worst case scenario for the local news is probably a bulletin at 4pm (which might be welcome by staff after a long night!) although even if BBC1 end up with both matches in the evening they'll likely schedule something in the 7pm hour, but penalties/extra time may cause problems. To be honest for an event like an election it is something where you can sum up the main stories in 5 minutes or an hour, depending how long the schedulers given. The main news will be covered in the first two minutes of the bulletin regardless.

If it wasn't for there being multiple Wimbledon feeds that week I wonder how practical getting the regions to put out something live on the iPlayer for each region would be. I know they've done the odd mayoral debate, but far easier to do one or two regional programme rather than all of them simultaneously. Perhaps though a 15-30 minute recorded programme could be uploaded around 6pm which viewers could be pointed towards.

[MLehon]

The news coverage can be what it is like now to be honest. BBC 1 should be for sport, news, entertainment. There is a news and parliament channel for local election programs or put the local election programs on BBC 4/BBC 2, BBC 1 IMO needs to be a bit of variety.

BBC1 for technical reasons needs to be available for Nations and Regions and priority as a public service broadcaster for the BBC on 5 July has to be Election News. If it's not I'll certainly be one raising a complaint. Everyone owns one of those long things called a Remote Control that allows a TV to change channels and long gone are the days when BBC1 is the only channel for football or tennis. This is a bit like the many who continually use SD for their TV viewing rather than watching the higher quality HD version of BBC1, 2 or ITV.

[Brekkie]

Everyone also has many avenues to get the "election news" via other methods, including a remote control to get it from another PSB. By 5pm on that night unless there is a major upset the election will already be consigned to history - it's worth noting BBC1 usually only schedule the programme through to around 4pm anyway.

The news will probably also reach more people scheduled around the football in the evening than it would in it's regular 6pm slot anyway as many more viewers than usual would be watching BBC1.

But heck, until just a few days beforehand we won't know how the schedule will play out anyway so no point at all getting your complaints in about something that may never happen. Having looked at the permutations I think unless England really mess up in the group stage there is probably only a 5% chance of that first 5pm match having UK involvement, meaning the BBC would likely choose the potential England match on the Saturday and the primetime match on the Friday.


And PSB isn't just being one thing to one group of people - the election is important but frankly for many people if England or Scotland are playing at 5pm that night that result would be more important. And for others how a Brit is getting on in third round of Wimbledon would have the greater PSB value. And for many people will be interested in all three, and I've no doubt the BBC will be able to serve the needs of all three, with only those who'll complain for the sake of complaining being most upset about common sense scheduling decisions.

[mark]

Mark's was involved in election night coverage in his ITV days, but always as a reporter. In 2005 he was at a showbiz party at the London Eye with Katie Derham.

Not sure why he's never had a presenting role.

[qwerty123]

Worst case scenario for the local news is probably a bulletin at 4pm (which might be welcome by staff after a long night!) although even if BBC1 end up with both matches in the evening they'll likely schedule something in the 7pm hour, but penalties/extra time may cause problems. To be honest for an event like an election it is something where you can sum up the main stories in 5 minutes or an hour, depending how long the schedulers given. The main news will be covered in the first two minutes of the bulletin regardless.

If it wasn't for there being multiple Wimbledon feeds that week I wonder how practical getting the regions to put out something live on the iPlayer for each region would be. I know they've done the odd mayoral debate, but far easier to do one or two regional programme rather than all of them simultaneously. Perhaps though a 15-30 minute recorded programme could be uploaded around 6pm which viewers could be pointed towards.

A lot of regions use the same team for the evening and late bulletins so staff certainly would not want an earlier evening bulletin in that case as it would mean an even longer day at work.

[Keith]

Not wishing to clog up the BBC News thread further, but it'll be interesting to see how the election results coverage effects radio.

Presumably, until last week's announcement 5 Live would have been covering the Euros and/or Wimbledon. I'm assuming that now some of this will get moved onto 5 Sports Extra, to enable 5 Live to cover the election results.

Probably a bit of a scheduling headache, given that there was already two sporting events on. I wonder if a popup channel on the Sounds app is planned for one of these sporting events.

At least on TV the BBC have the News Channel and BBC Parliament for election coverage. This allows them to opt for just extended news bulletins on BBC One for Friday and Saturday if necessary. There's also the option in the evening of moving some sport onto BBC Three, to enable some election coverage on BBC One or Two if required.

[bkman1990]

Would Lewis Goodall be a good replacement for Claire Balding on Channel 4's election results programme?

[Stooky Bill]

As on TV there's the advantage that the Euro matches aren't until 5pm and 8pm so any election coverage should be wrapped up.

Remember too that 5Live is well used to covering sport and news. It's easy to weave in any late results from counts into Wimbledon coverage. Big events like the PM going to the palace normally happen by lunchtime so just before play starts.

Of course I'm sure BBC bosses will be hoping for rain that day, although that's not the schedule free-er it once was!

Prominence of coverage of the football will depend on who's playing that evening, an England or Scotland match would never be relegated to Sports Extra. Again even if the government is undecided by then, it's unlikely there'll be any progress on Friday evening