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I wouldn’t say I was the most observant viewer in the world but sweet lord… how has the BBC standards fallen so low to be outputting this horrid mis mash of old and new, with lots of silly errors in between .

These technical errors didn’t happen on the news channel, they didn’t happen on World News and they didn’t happen yesterday… why are they happening today?!

Because BBC News and BBC World News were well-honed operations that had been using the same format, largely unchanged, for decades.  Breaking out of live programming to cut to a clip studio setup for an entire afternoon of breaking news, dealing with a new conversation and analysis-based format and trying to shoehorn hastily-edited regional reports into 1 minute advert gaps… there’s a lot going on right now that won’t be second nature to them yet.

The real question is whether this merged format will work over the longer-term, mostly from an editorial perspective, and to a lesser extent where will the presentation end up over time.  But I have no doubt the operation will become a lot slicker and more technically competent over time.