Surely, the BBC cannot shelve the English regions' news bulletin. The BBC is a PSB. Therefore, news trumps everything else.
Wimbledon - are we going to lose our BBC regional news?
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Originally Posted by sunhillpc1:
“Surely, the BBC cannot shelve the English regions' news bulletin. The BBC is a PSB. Therefore, news trumps everything else.”
“Surely, the BBC cannot shelve the English regions' news bulletin. The BBC is a PSB. Therefore, news trumps everything else.”
Full regional news on BBC one at 10:25pm as per announcement.
I don't usually criticise the BBC in this manner but really this is a disgrace. Ratings chasing for a match that is effectively over instead of PSB. Extremely poor decision.
Ridiculous, you'll now get a full bulletin at 10.25!.
Err, are we not allowed to sleep and know what's going on locally!.
Hope he hurries up and loses.
Err, are we not allowed to sleep and know what's going on locally!.
Hope he hurries up and loses.
Well that's Newswatch covered on Friday then don't need a team meeting it's been written for them.
BBC gonna get some stick for dropping the news.
BBC gonna get some stick for dropping the news.
Originally Posted by Sun!:
“BBC Wales Today on BBC2 Wales”
“BBC Wales Today on BBC2 Wales”
Well that's because BBC Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland can opt-out of BBC Two England to show it. The English Regions don't have that luxury.
Utter madness this by the BBC. Anyone watching what is left of the Murray match on BBC1 could easily switch to BBC2, so that we can have the regional programming on BBC1 now. Whoever makes these decisions should be fired.
Originally Posted by PrinceGaz:
“Utter madness this by the BBC. Anyone watching what is left of the Murray match on BBC1 could easily switch to BBC2, so that we can have the regional programming on BBC1 now. Whoever makes these decisions should be fired.”
“Utter madness this by the BBC. Anyone watching what is left of the Murray match on BBC1 could easily switch to BBC2, so that we can have the regional programming on BBC1 now. Whoever makes these decisions should be fired.”
I totally agree and I'm usually a BBC supporter. As I can cope just fine with Pressing BBC Two/HD to watch it the rest of the match
Originally Posted by _SpeedRacer_:
“Ratings chasing for a match that is effectively over instead of PSB. Extremely poor decision.”
“Ratings chasing for a match that is effectively over instead of PSB. Extremely poor decision.”
I know that I'm slightly off-topic but another example of ratings-chasing by the BBC is increasing the number of episode of EastEnders every week from three to four. It's understandable when a commercial channel increases the number of episodes of a soap but the BBC is funded by the licence fee and, therefore, unlike ITV, has no good reason to be concerned about ratings.
I don't see why we need regional news.
It's not like they'd update any important news about anything that may be happening tomorrow. Somesort of strike apparantly?
Ahem
It's not like they'd update any important news about anything that may be happening tomorrow. Somesort of strike apparantly?
Ahem
Originally Posted by steveh31:
“Well that's Newswatch covered on Friday then don't need a team meeting it's been written for them.
BBC gonna get some stick for dropping the news.”
“Well that's Newswatch covered on Friday then don't need a team meeting it's been written for them.
BBC gonna get some stick for dropping the news.”
And I can guarantee they'll tell us we were wrong and they are right...
Originally Posted by Ambassador:
“I don't see why we need regional news.
It's not like they'd update any important news about anything that may be happening tomorrow. Somesort of strike apparantly?
Ahem”
“I don't see why we need regional news.
It's not like they'd update any important news about anything that may be happening tomorrow. Somesort of strike apparantly?
Ahem”
Teachers Strike
Originally Posted by BenFranklin:
“wrong, quarter finals or later Murray is staying on bbc1 no matter what”
“wrong, quarter finals or later Murray is staying on bbc1 no matter what”
as predicted by me
Originally Posted by Ambassador:
“I don't see why we need regional news.”
“I don't see why we need regional news.”
That's not the point. Each BBC region has a half-hour of local news on weekdays. Nothing justifies dropping the regional news on any day, except Christmas Day, on which there never is local news on TV.
There's a bloke who keeps shouting "Tim" in the audience at Wimbledon hilarious getting people rattled haha.
I hope no child has gone missing and the parents needed the regional news for publicity to find them. There will be something that will happen somewhere that missing the regional news will cause a problem.
I hope no child has gone missing and the parents needed the regional news for publicity to find them. There will be something that will happen somewhere that missing the regional news will cause a problem.
Originally Posted by Bspks:
“ London is not the last to switch over, that "honour" goes to the Ulster region, and, if memory serves, one of the others completes later than London also.”
“ London is not the last to switch over, that "honour" goes to the Ulster region, and, if memory serves, one of the others completes later than London also.”
Meridian(Heathfield,Dover and Bluebell Hill) and Tyne Tees.
Originally Posted by steveh31:
“There's a bloke who keeps shouting "Tim" in the audience at Wimbledon hilarious getting people rattled haha.
I hope no child has gone missing and the parents needed the regional news for publicity to find them. There will be something that will happen somewhere that missing the regional news will cause a problem.”
“There's a bloke who keeps shouting "Tim" in the audience at Wimbledon hilarious getting people rattled haha.
I hope no child has gone missing and the parents needed the regional news for publicity to find them. There will be something that will happen somewhere that missing the regional news will cause a problem.”
A child going missing in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands will always hit the national headlines.
Originally Posted by sunhillpc1:
“That's not the point. Each BBC region has a half-hour of local news on weekdays. Nothing justifies dropping the regional news on any day, except Christmas Day, on which there never is local news on TV.”
“That's not the point. Each BBC region has a half-hour of local news on weekdays. Nothing justifies dropping the regional news on any day, except Christmas Day, on which there never is local news on TV.”
I was being sarcastic, if the rest of the post didn't indicate then I apologise.
Anyway, got to keep the middle classes happy for 2 weeks a year
Originally Posted by Bspks:
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Incidentally, London is not the last to switch over, that "honour" goes to the Ulster region, and, if memory serves, one of the others completes later than London also.”
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Incidentally, London is not the last to switch over, that "honour" goes to the Ulster region, and, if memory serves, one of the others completes later than London also.”
Meridian.
Regional news in the English regions will be 4 minutes at 7pm with an extended 2225 to make up for the loss of the 1830.
Scotland, NI and Wales bulletins have been switched to BBC2.
Originally Posted by Martin Phillp:
“Meridian.
Regional news in the English regions will be 4 minutes at 7pm with an extended 2225 to make up for the loss of the 1830.
Scotland, NI and Wales bulletins have been switched to BBC2.”
“Meridian.
Regional news in the English regions will be 4 minutes at 7pm with an extended 2225 to make up for the loss of the 1830.
Scotland, NI and Wales bulletins have been switched to BBC2.”
4 minutes?
Our local BBC newsreaders can't speak that quickly!
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