08-04-2024, 03:42 AM
(06-04-2024, 06:28 AM)bbctvtechop Wrote: Kind of depends on the type of package and the type of guest and location, I suppose.Yes and that only happens if the NC produces packages itself - but they’ve been mostly reusing packages from BBC1 bulletins for years.
If you have a full time correspondent in a full BBC bureau, the production cost is essentially zero - the line connectivity is always on, they are already being paid, they just need to sit in front of a camera and talk. This would be different if the same correspondent is in the field or a smaller BBC office, or one hired from a third party, as you then have hire/travel/connectivity costs. And guests (non BBC staff) often are paid per contribution. Once the interview is over it can be replayed in the same way a package can be.
Depending on the complexity of a package, you might need to allocate three or four people to work on it - researcher to get permissions, correspondent and technician to record, and a picture editor to edit. May even need additional techs or a producer to be involved. You might need to pay for rights to use footage included in it, or guests to appear in it. You might need to involve other people in NBH to record extra material or interviews.
For example in an edition of Afternoon Live in April 2019, they ran only four different packages across three hours - two of them were aired twice so in total there were six - and all were the stories on the One instead of packages made specifically for the news channel.
Nowadays with those budget cuts they’re unlikely to produce their own packages, so if they make programmes in a package-based format, what we’ll get is basically an hourly rebroadcast of the One, Six and Ten.