Time to drop the news, it used to be exciting and occasionally funny but these days the plotlines are stale, the characters boring and repulsive, and it always leaves you feeling depressed.
Just like eastenders that the OP wants to replace it with
Why are they so obsessed with the trivial happening's in America (not the shootings obviously) and give so much airtime to US politicians. :yawn:
Cheap to take as no translation required and too many Plank lovers at the BBC. How much do see of European news and politics? Erm, about nothing. It has been much complained about, but the BBC has done nothing. ITV and C5 are not real news progs.
The good thing about a proper news programme rather than rolling news is they take several stories of the day and try to balance them out with what is more important or not. They inform the viewer in a summary of the story, and usually cheer you up at the end with a human interest story. It is all compacted together. Why would anyone just flip to the news channel when they often cover events not everyone has interest in for hours on end? What will you sit and watch what you don't like just to hear 'official' news, you know it is true etc. Think not!
News bulletins give a "fixed point in time" to the schedules.
Without them the schedule would have no structure, balance or flow.
I must say i used to prefer the old BBC news at 9 as it was a definitive "watershed" point so anything coming after was not suitable for children - which as a teenager meant I mainly watched BBC1 after the news !!
Specialist satellite channels do not have news bulletins, and as a result you never really know what is on, and when. The exception here is something like E4 that has Hollyoaks first run at 7.00pm each day so that is another "fixed point" to build around.
If you have a rolling news channel in place compiling the news stories, then providing an "extra" 30 minute bulletin on the main channel is relatively cheap telly.
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What a bunch of charmless patronising people (with a couple of exceptions), most of whom have passed their sell by date.
Just like eastenders that the OP wants to replace it with
Cheap to take as no translation required and too many Plank lovers at the BBC. How much do see of European news and politics? Erm, about nothing. It has been much complained about, but the BBC has done nothing. ITV and C5 are not real news progs.
Why ? It gets twice the audience of Sky News. Would make more sense to do away with Sky News.
So, when does a newsreader get to their "sell by" date?
Is there a magic age when they have to be replaced by a younger model or something?
Without them the schedule would have no structure, balance or flow.
I must say i used to prefer the old BBC news at 9 as it was a definitive "watershed" point so anything coming after was not suitable for children - which as a teenager meant I mainly watched BBC1 after the news !!
Specialist satellite channels do not have news bulletins, and as a result you never really know what is on, and when. The exception here is something like E4 that has Hollyoaks first run at 7.00pm each day so that is another "fixed point" to build around.
If you have a rolling news channel in place compiling the news stories, then providing an "extra" 30 minute bulletin on the main channel is relatively cheap telly.