12-04-2024, 04:47 PM
(12-04-2024, 02:49 PM)RhysJR Wrote: Roger Mosey saying something similar earlier in the week. You'd hope the approach detailed below was grounded in market research, but it doesn't sound particularly appealing to me.As I said a few months back, I suspect the source of the standard format of prolonged news discussion stems from a combination of a) Outside Source and 100 Days/Context rating relatively well, with the former a strong socials performer, and b) it being a general trend across news anyway. Wanting to emulate their successes is not a bad idea in theory and you don't want to seem oldhat, but I feel it ignores the context (ironically) of the evening shows' success - they worked as limited end of day programmes (plus higher viewing partially down to slot) - as well as failing to see that the BBC should really be doing what others aren't.
As I'm a bit of a broken record on this, I obviously agree with Mosey's comments (even if, yes, slowing story count started before merger) and have always thought it'd make more sense to go pacier, so as to include both more international and UK stories. I don't want to spark another round of fantasy formats, as it's a discussion had many times over, but more stories, actually doing clear, concise and visual news reporting (including packages), and UK in Brief/Around the World segments seem so obvious solutions to the current plodfest that it is infuriating that it continues.