12-02-2023, 05:08 PM
(12-02-2023, 04:53 PM)Kojak Wrote: A couple of observations:
I know it’s not a big (or even medium-sized!) thing, but does anyone else find it slightly odd that the Lunchtime News is called that despite going out at 1.30? Most people have finished lunch by then, after all. Why not call it the ‘Afternoon News’? Personally, I always preferred the ‘News at 1.30/6.30’ names they used for a while - much more consistent.
News at Ten on a Friday - it does seem to get bumped for other things fairly often (but not since the start of the month, I might add!). Thinking back to a recent Clean Feed article - although I think Mr Nairn’s criticisms were perhaps overblown, I do wonder if it might be better to have the NaT branding on a Sunday, when it is usually always on at 10. Fridays could then be kept generic and thus be a bit more flexible. Just a thought.
Technically lunchtime is anytime between 12pm and 2pm, so the 1.30pm news being called the Lunchtime News is perfectly fine.
ITV felt that since the BBC had their lunchtime news at 1pm, they could benefit from people who ate a late lunch and placed it at 1.30pm. It also helped smooth out their schedule times a bit better.
The last time a lunchtime news programme had "afternoon" in their name was the old BBC News Afternoon which aired from 1981 to 1986 and was placed usually at 12.30pm.