[Worzel]

From a presentation point of view, its actually quite worrying how the sheer number of mistakes like this keep slipping through the net and making it to air. I hope this lack of attention to detail doesn't start dripping into editorial as well.

Hacked titles with dodgy frame rates, general issues with titles, newsroom DTL cameras which haven't been set up properly, the UK opt out feed with a presenter sitting in front of a very poorly rendered fake newsroom backdrop, you could go on.

Whatever anyone says, these types of issues have increased post the merger. Before, they had two channels which looked reasonably good presentation wise (albeit with titles which needed a refresh) but have merged them into something which, visually, is on a par with some BBC regional news operations.

On the branded segments, if you're going to have bespoke titles for slots, at least pimp up the studio with something that's vaguely visually relevant, such as changing the graphics on the OTS screens, catwalk screens, backdrop and add the show slug to the lower thirds - otherwise what's the point. Also, please get the presenters back standing up from time to time at the catwalk, it's like the News channel in N6 all over again.

Some have said this is a stop gap to a refreshed BBC News coming later along the line. If that's the case, why not wait a few months until that's completely ready? Why butcher the LN titles several times over, and twice in a matter of months? BBC News is now pretty much back to a pre-1999 and pre-2008 state where the brand visually meant different things to different audiences and Martin Lambie Nairn was brought in to fix it, twice.

It all smacks a bit of the left arm not knowing what the right arm's doing, silo working and possibly, people trying to drag the brand in one direction and others, a different way.