01-01-2024, 04:50 PM
(01-01-2024, 02:16 PM)rkolsen Wrote: 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).Absolutely, there were definitely reasons like that why BBC World was so rare in switching to rolling news mode, but it also extended to rarely dropping things like WBR, Sport Today and back-half pre-records for news coverage, which third-parties wouldn't be particularly dependent on.