07-02-2023, 04:42 PM
(07-02-2023, 02:06 PM)Kojak Wrote:(07-02-2023, 01:50 PM)Radio_man Wrote: This is not unique to World News, it's happened across BBC News bulletins over the last decade. The 1/6/10 headline sequences often have vox pops as well, and can take up to 2 minutes. I often get so bored of the headline sequence, if I've recorded the bulletin to watch later, I'll just skip the headline sequence altogether.It's not only the BBC - ITV are just as bad, particularly on News at Ten. And foreign broadcasters do it, too. The Flemish VTM is especially bad - often every headline will have a SOT. It seems to be something of a worldwide trend.
It seems to have only infiltrated TV though - just listened back to the Radio 4's Six O' Clock News headlines and they lasted 66 seconds. And on a morning, Tina Daheley's Radio 2 bulletins have an almost criminally short sequence at 25 seconds, though that's a bit different.
I wonder why (at least BBC) radio haven't caught the bug.