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That was probably the most concentrated coverage of UK news since the channel began with four stories back to back, albeit three in brief, strange it was being broadcast from Singapore.

Overall findings from the first day, there needs to be a further rebalancing of stories across the network, the breaking news opt this afternoon showed the limits of not having a local team covering the local stories, essentially Lewis Vaughn Jones had to ab-lib for 2 hours when realistically there was only about 30 minutes worth of live coverage analysis required. 

The around the UK clips, don't work in the there current format, some are cut off before they end and some you spend half the time guessing about what the story is or in what part of the country the story is occurring.

The problem with the presenter using the autocue throughout the day, it means that there appears to be less of an appetite to move around the studios, which means even when in studios the coverage is more or less locked off shots, are the the BBC going to continue in this style, if so, what's the point of having expensive fancy studios, everything being done by outside video feed appears to be more reminiscent of Covid rather than progression, although I do accept that this could be a temporary set up until a new studio is fully launched at some point in the future.

In regards to the branding, I remember it was stated that Chameleon would roll out over several weeks with BBC News rather than all at once, E, obviously has access to Chameleon titles as the news at 1 showed, its just they do not appear to have been given the default title slide. I guess we will wait to see on this one.

The BBC News at One, I was surprised to see Ben Brown presenting today, with the bulletin now being a BBC 1 bulletin, I would have thought for the first few weeks they would have stuck to the BBC One team, although it is the Easter Holiday. I also hope its an indicator that Martine and Anita may reappear at some stage in the future. 

Overall I feel that the UK feed is being treated as the pound shop quota, with packages cut off and junctions not being met correctly. I think for day 1 there are alot more improvements to be made, at present the BBC does not appear to be serving National or international audiences appropriately.