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BBC News Channel crashed into a pre-record for a major Nicola Bulley update at 14:40 BST. There is still no separate Breaking News presenter, so thing is done from Studio C by World's presenter Lukwesa Burak.
It is really interesting how they are going to cover it in the next few hours, as the development is really big but it might be of less relevance for the World viewers.
UPD. World Joined at exactly 15:00 BST, apparently without headlines or intro.
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(19-02-2023, 03:50 PM)oscillon Wrote: BBC News Channel crashed into a pre-record for a major Nicola Bulley update at 14:40 BST. There is still no separate Breaking News presenter, so thing is done from Studio C by World's presenter Lukwesa Burak.
It is really interesting how they are going to cover it in the next few hours, as the development is really big but it might be of less relevance for the World viewers.
They are actually covering it on BBC World News - just ridiculous. This kind of story is of no relevance to international viewers, to give it rolling news coverage is just absurd and with no editorial justification. Just embarassing that this is what the BBC has been reduced to.
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At least give some context to World viewers... WN just crashed into the breaking coverage at TOTH. I assume a general World viewer would have no idea on who is Nicola Bulley, what is the case about, or even where the hell is "St Michael's on Wyre"...
EDIT: WN just crashed out of the simulcast at 15:06 in the middle of a live report (the bulletin is scheduled for 5 mins long this hour)... So World viewers had 5 minutes of zero-context irrelevant breaking news coverage just now... What a mess
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(19-02-2023, 04:03 PM)DTV Wrote: (19-02-2023, 03:50 PM)oscillon Wrote: BBC News Channel crashed into a pre-record for a major Nicola Bulley update at 14:40 BST. There is still no separate Breaking News presenter, so thing is done from Studio C by World's presenter Lukwesa Burak.
It is really interesting how they are going to cover it in the next few hours, as the development is really big but it might be of less relevance for the World viewers.
They are actually covering it on BBC World News - just ridiculous. This kind of story is of no relevance to international viewers, to give it rolling news coverage is just absurd and with no editorial justification. Just embarassing that this is what the BBC has been reduced to.
What you said!
It really is shocking what's happened to both services as a result of simulcasting with nobody seemingly at the wheel knowing what to do..
EDIT: And that includes the current presenter who has no idea World viewers left the coverage 10 mins ago yet asked the reporter for geography for said world viewers.
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(19-02-2023, 03:50 PM)oscillon Wrote: BBC News Channel crashed into a pre-record for a major Nicola Bulley update at 14:40 BST. There is still no separate Breaking News presenter, so thing is done from Studio C by World's presenter Lukwesa Burak.
It is really interesting how they are going to cover it in the next few hours, as the development is really big but it might be of less relevance for the World viewers.
UPD. World Joined at exactly 15:00 BST, apparently without headlines or intro.
I doubt very much there will be a separate breaking news presenter/ reporter sat in NBH on a Sunday afternoon, waiting to spring into action on the very slim chance their could be any breaking news on a Sunday afternoon anyway.
(Does anyone really believe this "breaking news" reporter will actually exist outside of 9am - 6pm, Monday - Friday?)
So this afternoon is likely to be typical of weekends when there's a big domestic breaking news story, that's of little to no interest to World viewers.
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My goodness! Is there actually anybody there at BBC News other than the presenter?
That 4pm GMT junction was car crash quality television. Reminds me of the launch days of GBNews... Harsh, but when you consider this is the BBC, it is beyond.
Really worth a scroll back if you've got access to iPlayer.
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(19-02-2023, 04:24 PM)Radio_man Wrote: So this afternoon is likely to be typical of weekends when there's a big domestic breaking news story, that's of little to no interest to World viewers.
As sad as the news may be, it's probably just a headline in a domestic bulletin on BBC One rather than something for a rolling news channel.
The editorial choices here seem rather suspect when there are 40,000+ dead in Turkey/Syria in a continuing and developing rather desperate humanitarian operation.
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(19-02-2023, 05:05 PM)Newsroom Wrote: My goodness! Is there actually anybody there at BBC News other than the presenter?
That 4pm GMT junction was car crash quality television. Reminds me of the launch days of GBNews... Harsh, but when you consider this is the BBC, it is beyond.
Really worth a scroll back if you've got access to iPlayer.
Awful. The last couple of hours has been dreadful too.
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I can't bear to watch this anymore, the slow destruction of the News Channel is a painful watch
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(19-02-2023, 05:35 PM)TheJarv Wrote: I can't bear to watch this anymore, the slow destruction of the News Channel is a painful watch
You could argue it's World viewers who have lost out this afternoon, as they are getting rolling coverage of a story that's of little interest outside of Britain, as desperately sad as the story is.
But this afternoon has shown that at weekends, the World & NC joint simulcast service is not staffed adequately, or set up to deal with breaking & rolling news.
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