03-04-2023, 11:46 PM
I think the ingredients for a decent combined service are there, although it’ll take a few weeks of the new set-up in action to be certain. It’s a shame though that there have been so many technical problems and silly little errors today that should have been picked up over the past month of pilots and rehearsing. Whilst there’s been a lot of hyperbole on here, they have stoked critics’ fire by allowing a level of technical problems not too dissimilar from the early days of GB News!
Things like Studios C and E not having the same versions of the titles, testing how they’ll do the transition from Newsnight to Newsday, making sure that the ticker 1) works and 2) doesn’t obscure text on the content that forms the new ‘Around the UK’ breakfillers, should have all been picked up in the pilots and resolved. The fact that so many of these little issues haven’t been fixed isn’t a good look.
Things like Studios C and E not having the same versions of the titles, testing how they’ll do the transition from Newsnight to Newsday, making sure that the ticker 1) works and 2) doesn’t obscure text on the content that forms the new ‘Around the UK’ breakfillers, should have all been picked up in the pilots and resolved. The fact that so many of these little issues haven’t been fixed isn’t a good look.