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Gathered audio so far from BBC Radio Nottingham, Capital (Nottinghamshire), Gem, and Smooth (East Midlands). Currently gathering more and I hope to share everything tomorrow.
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Like many on here, I'm supportive of the BBC and the NC as it was, but today has proven that they simply don't have enough resources now to cover a major UK breaking news story outside of London using the shoestring UK opt-out team.
Sky News was back to its classic best today, covering domestic breaking news as it should be and then sensibly switching from Nottingham to Miami to cover Trump's court hearing. It was almost like pre 97 Sky News when they didn't have any domestic competition and CNN was the main international alternative.
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If they could at least use the opts to carry other stories in addition to the main breaking one, it wouldn't be as bad. But when they opt out, it's just the one story for as long as it goes, even if there's little in new developments to cover. It's a joke.
And the alternative is to put heavily UK centric breaking stories on the world feed, like they did with Schofield, which isn't much better, but at least it alternated with other stories- but leaves international viewers baffled. This merged channel is a mess.
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(13-06-2023, 09:47 PM)James2001 Wrote: If they could at least use the opts to carry other stories in addition to the main breaking one, it wouldn't be as bad. But when they opt out, it's just the one story for as long as it goes, even if there's little in new developments to cover. It's a joke.
And the alternative is to put heavily UK centric breaking stories on the world feed, like they did with Schofield, which isn't much better. This merged channel is a mess.
I think the issue there is that the UK opt-out also doubles up as a stream on the BBC News website/app for visitors who want constant coverage of a single story, so going into other stories from that perspective is a no, no. The UK opt seems to be an additional 'bonus' rather than prioritising linear viewers who may want to see other UK stories.
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(13-06-2023, 07:45 PM)Omnipresent Wrote: Poor decisions at an operational level are part of the problem, but so is the BBC's unwillingness to just come out and say "Because the government has once again cut our funding we can no longer afford to do both x and y, so something had to give."
That wouldn’t be wise for them.
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(13-06-2023, 09:53 PM)London Lite Wrote: I think the issue there is that the UK opt-out also doubles up as a stream on the BBC News website/app for visitors who want constant coverage of a single story, so going into other stories from that perspective is a no, no. The UK opt seems to be an additional 'bonus' rather than prioritising linear viewers who may want to see other UK stories.
That sounds just like the BBC of late - prioritising a live stream online probably viewed by a few hundred or few thousand at most over the content on a broadcast channel watched by tens of thousands, and in the event of big developing stories, over 100,000.
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Apparently BBC Radio Nottingham was live and local until 10pm, a station that the BBC wishes to cut local output to the bare minimum.
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definitely the bbc news uk feed has been affected much more by the cuts, and it absolutely shows, the quality between network news and this merged news channel is quite obvious, its been cut to shreds, too reliant on other output and management see it as low priority now.
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(13-06-2023, 10:20 PM)harshy Wrote: definitely the bbc news uk feed has been affected much more by the cuts, and it absolutely shows, the quality between network news and this merged news channel is quite obvious, its been cut to shreds, too reliant on other output and management see it as low priority now.
Of course network news have stopped even acknowledging that the News Channel exists
From the early News 24 days where that name was promoted at every given opportunity to now where they just say ‘more analysis on the BBC News website’
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The still professional team who produce the network bulletins are likely embarrased by what the news channel has become.
