01-01-2024, 02:16 PM
(01-01-2024, 01:44 PM)DTV Wrote: 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.
I’d have to assume that BBC World was rigid because it had to often play out programs for third party providers to record shows live. WETA offers like 5 half hours (some are delayed by 3 hours) of news so proper start times and endings are needed for those. Same with Focus on Africa - they need to go out to providers (The Africa Channel in the US and I assume somewhere in Africa). Now I’m not saying the latter show couldn’t be deadrolled and transmitted differently as I’ve never seen the typical branding on it (lower thirds etc).