18-04-2023, 01:20 PM
(18-04-2023, 10:56 AM)ALV Wrote: The Nicky Campbell programme has the same issues with the Victoria Derbyshire programme back in the TVF days... being too inflexible for breaking news... Eventually VD was more keen to drop segments for breaking news mentions towards its late days but still you wouldn't get actual coverage till Newsroom Live at 11AM.
A way to improve the Nicky Campbell programme is to extend the length of news bulletins to about 5-6 minutes... utilize the duty UK opt presenter and present the bulletins from the balcony, adopting the format similar to VD - with 1-2 packages for the top stories, and short recorded weather bulletins before handing off back to Nicky. The VD format offered a better balance IMO. The radio format is wayyy too short, and doesn't suit the news channel much...
I concur. As much as I was critical of Derbyshire intially with its magazine programme format over in the Blue Place. At least it evolved over time. The thing with Campbell's programme with its phone-in format is that it needed to be developed in consultation with those who made Derbyshire's one to see who you can transfer a radio show to TV. Because there is the potential for it to be at its heart a magazine programme but with the 'phone-in' element cleverly disguised.