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I got a notification from the BBC News app a couple of hours ago encouraging me to "follow live" as Donald Trump appears in court. I jumped online to see if I could watch proceedings live, and was delighted to find a dedicated 'Donald Trump Takes the Stand in New York Fraud Trial' iPlayer stream. www.bbc.co.uk  

Notably, the stream is using slightly different, and considerably smaller, lower-thirds compared with the main BBC News channel: 
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Frankly, they still look absolutely dreadful in plain all-red -- but at least they take up less room on the screen. 

Also -- miraculously -- the text in the LIVE and location bugs is properly aligned! 
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But what's truly remarkable is the fact that the stream has shown absolutely nothing of Trump's appearance in court. Instead, we've been treated to a static outside shot of the courthouse, and occasionally, we get to see some people milling around outside the entrance to the courtroom too. 
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And then, at random, and for no obvious reason, we're then shown endless loops of the BBC News bumper. 
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At a couple of points, the stream suddenly crashed into the middle of Verified Live without warning, to simulcast a couple of minutes of on-air coverage related to the Trump trial, before the stream then crashed back out to show viewers another three million loops of the logo bumper, and then it's back to looking at the outside of the courthouse again.

The stream has been up for nearly four hours now, and during that time, has shown a grand total of around 15 minutes of actual content related to the story.

I realise this is 'just' an online stream and not the broadcast channel, but how can this 'coverage' be viewed as anything less than utterly worthless? Who on earth is this stream supposed to satisfy? 

How can anyone at BBC News possibly believe that this rolling dreck is of any use to even a single viewer?