[News76]

Have they continued without the usual weekend filler today?

Apart from a Global News Podcast special which was shown at both 2:30 & 9:30pm, yes.

[ALV]

The UK feed opted out of Breakfast some time this morning to continue covering the Israel–Hamas war (I'm not sure how and when exactly this happened)


At 0830 they dropped pre-records on the World feed and continued with domestic UK news on both UK and World feed...

[LDN]

The UK feed opted out of Breakfast some time this morning to continue covering the Israel–Hamas war (I'm not sure how and when exactly this happened)


At 0830 they dropped pre-records on the World feed and continued with domestic UK news on both UK and World feed...

It happened at 0800. 

Went from the Click closing titles, into a few seconds of the filler countdown; then into a headline sequence with wipe animations but no logo/headline text. ibb.co 

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[James2001]

The UK feed opted out of Breakfast some time this morning to continue covering the Israel–Hamas war (I'm not sure how and when exactly this happened)


At 0830 they dropped pre-records on the World feed and continued with domestic UK news on both UK and World feed...

Ahh, I'm sure international viewers are fascinated by news of the SNP conference, it's not as if there's any real important global news...

[FactorFiles]

Not sure how unusual this is, but just now they had what appeared to be a "news in brief" bed under the "briefly some other news" segment, which actually turned out to be the closing bed, which seamlessly played out to the BOTH close.

[AndrewP]

Waiting for the screencap sounds like someone planned it well

[LDN]

It's disappointing -- but not at all surprising - that there's been no mention at all on the BBC News channel of the bus crashing into a shop at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester, an incident that took place two and a half hours ago, resulting in "a number of casualties" according to emergency services, and which was picked up by local Manchester news sources like MEN within 35 minutes of it happening.

The BBC finally published an online article about the crash around half an hour ago, but it seems particularly poor that this still hasn't even been mentioned on air as a brief piece of breaking news. Prior to the merger, this kind of news would quickly have made it to air on the old BBC News Channel, and you could expect regular updates on the story (even just a brief few words between other stories), and perhaps even a reporter on the scene if needed. 

Now, post-merger, the combined channel has of course been in international news mode with Verified Live, focusing largely on the Israel-Gaza conflict. But even when the Israel-Gaza coverage actually took a pause at 1515 for an in-brief round-up of UK stories, they just repeated the same three UK headlines from the 1415 round-up in a different order, with nothing about the Manchester crash, or any other UK story that might be developing. And nothing even when the UK opted out at 1530 before Rishi Sunak began his speech.

This Manchester incident is exactly the kind of live UK coverage that has suffered since the merger. It has no place on an international channel, but it's not 'major' enough to warrant opting out for dedicated UK coverage. It's a shame that this kind of developing domestic news, which the old BBC News Channel covered so capably, has been all but abandoned. 

And FFS, when one story is dominating TV coverage, why not use the ticker to provide a useful summary of other global and UK news stories? Instead, the ticker is just cycling through the same meagre handful of headlines, all related to Israel-Gaza and nothing else. 

That said, BBC News has always failed miserably in its misuse of the ticker in this way -- devoting it entirely to a single story when that event is dominating the headlines, instead of seeing the value in using the ticker to summarise all the other stories that aren't getting reported on air. 

What possible value does the BBC think it's providing viewers by showing them the same five headlines, all about the same story, on an endless 35-second loop for hours at a time?

[interestednovice]

This kind of “two lines update” could and should be easily covered during World feed ad breaks, but so far they haven’t been nimble enough to do it and they rely too much on Across the UK clips (which are not usually very current and are more magazine style, the kind of thing from an “And finally…” segment in the old days).

I’d like to see UK News in brief more often, less Across the U.K. and less filler content (trailers, etc) in general on the UK feed - there’s no need for it to go out on the global feed though.

I am hoping that they will eventually find their feet with the new channel and manage to do this better. Currently, for perhaps understandable reasons, the focus is on the World output - but they should be able to focus on both at once, somehow.

[leewilliams]

Never mind typos on the straps, we’re now seeing embarrassingly wrong words on there:

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[kookaburra]

This kind of “two lines update” could and should be easily covered during World feed ad breaks, but so far they haven’t been nimble enough to do it and they rely too much on Across the UK clips (which are not usually very current and are more magazine style, the kind of thing from an “And finally…” segment in the old days).

I’d like to see UK News in brief more often, less Across the U.K. and less filler content (trailers, etc) in general on the UK feed - there’s no need for it to go out on the global feed though.

I am hoping that they will eventually find their feet with the new channel and manage to do this better. Currently, for perhaps understandable reasons, the focus is on the World output - but they should be able to focus on both at once, somehow.

Even so, there’s still news happening in the UK. I was wondering just before whether UK opt outs have increased in the last week or so to cover off on the day’s domestic news. Doesn’t sound like it?

I’ve had access to World for a couple of weeks (hello hotels) and the all Israel conflict all the time is a bit much and I’m flicking to another channel quite quickly. For comparison, the ABC Asia Pacific service, which is a hybrid of the domestic news channel and its own standalone bulletins, give the first couple of stories to the conflict before moving on.