08-05-2024, 08:41 AM
(08-05-2024, 12:01 AM)DTV Wrote: My understanding was always that Sport has a more limited gallery and have been doing autocue self-operation for a long time. But the dynamism differential is certainly marked - ever since they've moved to Salford, sports news has always gone a lot further pres-wise than they ever needed to.It would fit well on BBC3 in the 7pm hour or perhaps once Newsnight is cut air a 15 minute bulletin at 11pm on BBC2.
On a side note, I've always wondered why they don't give Sportsday an airing on network BBC. Not just is there an increasing amount of spare time in the schedule, particularly on BBC Two, that could easily be filled by a daily 30' bulletin, but there's an absence of general sports news on the big five outside of breakfast and weekend bulletins and it could probably get quite a decent audience. It just seems like, considering the amount of effort the team clearly go to, it deserves a bigger profile than being a secondary function of the News channel.
The cuts to Sportsday is one of the sad things about the merger and I do think keeping it as an hourly feature could have helped by using it in such a way that when world gets sport there's team cover UK stories and vice versa.