01-01-2024, 01:44 PM
(01-01-2024, 12:36 PM)Reith85 Wrote: Sorry for another negative post but again you see how inferior the BBC News channel is now based on this morning's news from Japan: in the 10am and 11am hours, just 7 minutes or so is given over to the earthquake / threat of a tsunami story before the usual pre-recorded stories and reports, as well as the bottom-of-the-hour filler "review of 2023" repeat programmes.To be fair, this isn't a 'how the BBC News channel is now' thing, BBC News has always been very inflexible with this kind of thing, rarely ditching a pre-record unless they absolutely have to - BBC World used to be particularly rigid. Obviously, this is much to its detriment - you can establish yourself as somebody's default news channel all you want, but people will still switch over if you aren't showing what they want.