[Frances]

News at Ten also has the improved opening titles. I didn't manage to catch the Six.

The Six had the titles improved as well. However, generic BBC News bulletins still had botched frame rate, at least for Washington overnights.

No headlines or titles at 11am on the UK feed, straight into breaking news from Pakistan. It almost looked like UK opted (almost smoothly, instant lower third appearance gave it away) into an already rolling World coverage, with Lucy Grey introducing the reporter only by name at the start of the DTL. Did World crash out of Hardtalk towards the end of the latter?

Also, yesterday WNA utilized a more compact version of lower thirds for some of the stories by using  the layout meant for name straps, with BBC News ticker not rising up.


Not sure if it's a bug or they are trying something.

NC titles’ frame rates are not botched - just normal 25 FPS.

BBC1 bulletin titles have been enhanced with interlaced video format after moving to Studio B, making the animation smoother - but last month’s modification made it botched. I guess it’s because of wrong encoding settings.

The compact aston appeared so many times last month including on World Business Report so I don’t think it means a significant graphic format change is coming.

And on the ticker - I don’t want to be a continuous tracker so I only talk about it when there’s a potential major change - now it works during London-produced NC hours, including generic newscasts and UK opt-outs, between 0700 and 2300. BBC1 bulletins and Newsnight simulcasts, Focus on Africa, and Washington and Singapore hours don’t use it. This new format is in effect after all London-produced NC newscasts moving to C.