09-04-2023, 08:07 PM
(09-04-2023, 05:40 PM)thomalex Wrote:Exactly. If they want to ditch the flipper, just deactivate it.(09-04-2023, 04:20 PM)agentsquash Wrote: It doesn’t look the best, but the flipper hardly makes the channel an embarrassment.
It’s one of those things that helps make it ‘feel’ like TV news rather than actually being an essential part of the product.
With the increased pacing of stories on the new channel its main reason d’etre is somewhat removed. I suspect they’re leaving it there so it pulls in stories from the website eventually.
Sorry but it does I’m afraid. Not being able to get such a basic feature as a ticker working is the sort of amateur hour stuff that people used to laugh at GB News for when it first launched.
And it’s not just not working, as in removing it so it looks at least an intentional decision while whatever is preventing it from working is fixed. It’s currently flashing the word Headlines and the URL on an endless loop every 10 seconds. It looks terrible and clearly no one at the BBC cares. All a bit sad really.
But in the past 7 days they can’t even make sure it won’t be in use again. From bulletins to pre-recorded programmes, it kept escaping from the coffin…
Or we’re actually watching the new series of Ghosts?