13-04-2024, 09:38 AM
(12-04-2024, 11:04 PM)AndrewP Wrote: I'll admit I don't watch the channel very often but it sounds like the channel doesn't cover more than 2-3 stories in an hour!One day I saw the news channel devoted almost a full bulletin to Gaza, then briefly talked about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and the news ended. It’s not more informative than a hourly radio bulletin, even than a shorter Newsbeat update.
When there are more stories+packages on a 6 minute WS bulletin or even 2min R4 summary surely there's something that's gone wrong.
I think over on the World Service, Newshour manages to cover at least around 7 or 8 stories in 45mins with a mixture of packages and interviews, whilst The Newsroom covers around 4/5 in 20 minutes.
WS has harder "hard posts" than NC too! If presenters overrun they just get cut off on all feeds - it happened today to the veteran Julian Marshall.
Especially now that there aren't radio-specific reporters anymore I imagine nearly all packages have visual footage attached to them. What's stopping them from showing these rather than putting out what sounds like continual inane, inconsequential pontification.
I’m fine with formats other than packages but I don’t get why they talk that much especially when there aren’t so many significant developments. 5 Live also doesn’t run packages but they do much better.