[Keith]

A mix of topics about the merged news channel on Newswatch.

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Nicky Campbell's simulcast came up. As part of his response, Paul Royall said that viewers can still get the headlines at the bottom of the screen - I assume he's referring to the ticker, which doesn't work half the time?

If only that was true for the entire programme. So far today the ticker was displaying 3 or 4 news headlines for the first couple minutes. However, since then it's defaulted back to only showing how you can contact the programme. I'd therefore question Paul Royall's claim that viewers can still get headlines at the bottom of the screen, though he was presumably having to recite from a pre-agreed statement/script.

Seemingly the current incarnation of the ticker can't cope with showing both news headlines and contact details, as I can't believe nobody has thought of that. (Also 3 headlines on a ticker is hardly sufficient, but that's a wider post-channel merger problem.)