[Worzel]

It feels like Yalda and her guests have been repeating themselves on a loop for most of the last 90 minutes

Have we been told about the history of cameras in US courts 6 times yet? 

[Andrew]

I’m not sure viewers are going to take to the completely different news agenda compared to network bulletins

On a normal day with no Trump rolling News between the One and the 2pm channel bulletin you’ll no doubt have 75% of the stories ditched and the other 25% shoved way down the bulletin.

Presumably they will stop cross promoting the channel “There is more on todays news on the BBC News Channel…” as in reality there will be less coverage on the stories that have just featured on network.

[harshy]

They cut off Yalda before cutting to the Context not very smooth.

[Chud]

They cut off Yalda before cutting to the Context not very smooth.

Yalda took too long mumbling her close to hit the top of the hour. They needed a clean opt as PBS taking the context.

[harshy]

They’ve renamed the channel at 19.2 east it’s simply just BBC News :-(

[ginnyfan]

At the TOTH you could see the Breaking News Opt Out team with LVJ who must be some sort of a hero of the day.

www.youtube.com 

[bkman1990]

If I few words to say about the BBC News Channel. This would be it.

I had predicted some time ago that the new version of the BBC News Channel was going to become a lot worse than what went on with the editorial slant and presentation elements of the previous channel.

I cannot believe that within the initial rollout of it's launch to viewers; it pains me to say it but I have been right all along that it was going to become a significant failure in the interim.

I did have a lot of love for the previous version of the BBC News Channel for a long time before it. I had a gut instinct within me for quite a while to say that once the official plans were released by the BBC, to merge the 2 news channels together, it was going to become fraught with issues of becoming a very stilted and awkward product, and it was not going to become a huge success for viewers when it came out of the woodwork yesterday.

I do want to ask people here if Deborah Turness along the management are saying that it has become an initial success from the viewers point of view. What type of audience metrics are they currently looking at to prove it?

I would also like to ask has there been any significant numbers of people in the UK who have switched over to Sky News, Talk TV or GB News since the BBC News Channel relaunched yesterday?

[harshy]

I really doubt they care they just on a mission to reduce the budget and give Uk license fee payers a mediocre service, the global part where it does look a bit more polished seems to have come out better.

[Moz]

So I've not seen a lot of it, but from what I've seen over the last two days, I'm actually reasonably impressed.

Yes it's not perfect, there are clearly issues with inconsistent branding - but this will be tidied up eventually.

I totally understand that the BBC is in such a difficult position in not wanting to make it look like they're spending lots of money on new graphics and studios when people are losing their jobs. That wouldn't be a good look.

As for the content, I think it's been fast paced, grown up and different. Different in a good way. They seem to be trying new things out, and I like that. Not all of what they're trying is working, but I kind of like that it's a bit rough around the edges - a rolling news channel shouldn't be polished, that's for the Six and the Ten.

I was impressed with the UK break out I saw. They started it far too early (not sure whether that was due to the sentencing overrunning or them just being over-keen), but I thought LVJ did really well, his 'studio' was perfectly fine (though I really don't know why it's in front of a screen with the newsroom on rather than just the newsroom itself being the backdrop), and I liked the explainers from the newsroom.

I think it's certainly one to watch and I won't be turning over to the yawn-fest which is Sky or Gammon B News.

[bkman1990]

I was just reading The Guardian piece in Jack Seale about the coverage of Trump on BBC News. I found another link to another piece written by Jane Martinson contained within it.

It has the bruising title "The BBC News Channel revamp has been a PR disaster. But it makes perfect sense".

www.theguardian.com 

The BBC news channel revamp has been a PR disaster – but it also makes perfect s…
The merger of channels is a cost-cutting measure that has provoked derision and …
  Source: www.theguardian.com