06-03-2023, 01:55 PM
Some others have touched on it, but first UK specific breaking news incident - Wayne Couzens' sentencing. UK were taking live feed in run-up to midday (when World were on Sport Today), with it continuing on World as well briefly after 12:00. There was then a delayed headline sequence and it was the first story with Hockings discussing the importance of the story in the UK and pointing viewers to a live feed on the BBC News website. They then moved onto other stories after a few minutes, before later returning to the story for about four/five minutes.
Definitely different to how it would've been handled last week, but reasonable given the lack of a UK opt-out (which I presume would take the story from next month) and the fact the story is of little relevance to global viewers. In fact, arguably preferable to taking half-an-hour of very dreary sentencing procedure. More broadly, from what I've seen this morning, it's been fairly well-balanced for what it is - a reasonable number of UK stories, but not overshadowing more newsworthy international stories. The final quarter-of-an-hour seems to be particularly UK-focussed.
On an unrelated matter, are World taking quarter-past/-to ad breaks? If so, it's been fairly seamless, the only particularly awkward opt pause was when BBC Two opt away for Politics Live (which is always ridiculously long).
Definitely different to how it would've been handled last week, but reasonable given the lack of a UK opt-out (which I presume would take the story from next month) and the fact the story is of little relevance to global viewers. In fact, arguably preferable to taking half-an-hour of very dreary sentencing procedure. More broadly, from what I've seen this morning, it's been fairly well-balanced for what it is - a reasonable number of UK stories, but not overshadowing more newsworthy international stories. The final quarter-of-an-hour seems to be particularly UK-focussed.
On an unrelated matter, are World taking quarter-past/-to ad breaks? If so, it's been fairly seamless, the only particularly awkward opt pause was when BBC Two opt away for Politics Live (which is always ridiculously long).