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Old 29-12-2016, 23:09
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Sorry for another thread on BBC news, but just 10 mins today?
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Old 29-12-2016, 23:23
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its the #mediablackout
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Old 30-12-2016, 00:49
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20 minutes, including local news & weather- preceded by 4hrs 35 overnight, 3 hours at breakfast, 20 minutes at lunchtime & 30 minutes in the early evening.

8 hours 45 minutes of news on BBC1.

24 hours of news on BBC News (Channel).

Other news sources also available!
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Old 30-12-2016, 01:19
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Sorry for another thread on BBC news, but just 10 mins today?
Yet if you can receive BBC One you can also receive the BBC News Channel on all Freeview transmitters as well as the Red Button text service. Not forgetting ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

As well as BBC Two, Four, Parliament, Radio 4 and 5 Live.

Freesat, Sky and Virgin all offer the same services above plus Sky News, CNN and many foreign alternatives.

I struggle to see why it would be a problem, though perhaps I'm missing something.
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Old 30-12-2016, 02:48
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Sorry for another thread on BBC news, but just 10 mins today?
Another BBC News rant thread? Seriously?!?!?!!!!!
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Old 30-12-2016, 02:55
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Sorry for another thread on BBC news, but just 10 mins today?
Oh do stop it. Just stop it.
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Old 30-12-2016, 04:59
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its the #mediablackout
What is this?

It was all over my Facebook last night, people saying there's been a major death and there's a blackout.

I thought there might have been something to it when Adrian Goldberg had quite a lengthy pre-recorded feature last night on Five Live as I remember Breakfast did that back in January before announcing the death of David Bowie, but AG just carried on as normal afterwards.
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Old 30-12-2016, 06:02
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What I don't get is the apparent surprise of the OP, news has always been shortened on the main channels during the Christmas holidays. And with 24 hour news channels available to all on Freeview these days, and three hours of news every morning with BBC Breakfast I just don't see the problem.
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Old 30-12-2016, 09:04
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Sorry for another thread on BBC news, but just 10 mins today?
You are mistaken, at 11 it was an hour long, just like every other hour, the news is 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Old 30-12-2016, 09:16
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What I don't get is the apparent surprise of the OP, news has always been shortened on the main channels during the Christmas holidays. And with 24 hour news channels available to all on Freeview these days, and three hours of news every morning with BBC Breakfast I just don't see the problem.
You just have to look at the print newspapers, they similarly are smaller than usual and mostly filled with articles written before the holidays. Not much happens over the holidays.
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Old 30-12-2016, 09:40
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Sorry for another thread on BBC news, but just 10 mins today?
To avoid another thread, tonight both BBC/ITV have a twenty minute bulletin including local news at 10.40.

BBC News channel has News on the hour every hour for thoose who need more news.
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Old 30-12-2016, 10:26
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Sorry for another thread on BBC news, but just 10 mins today?
I doubt you really are sorry, you just want to show how much you hate the BBC by posting so many threads complaining. What next? Will you complain if when the Queen dies that the BBC news is dominated by looking at her life?
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Old 30-12-2016, 11:04
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Can't really say here. PM me. Its blacked out
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Old 30-12-2016, 11:16
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Suggestion to the OP- Maybe just have the one BBC News thread that you comment on rather than multiple threads.

Other great threads.

Where is newsnight.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...533&highlight=

Bradley is top news story.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...826&highlight=

BBC News from USA.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...705&highlight=

BBC News leads with a gun story.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...646&highlight=
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Old 30-12-2016, 11:30
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Suggestion to the OP- Maybe just have the one BBC News thread that you comment on rather than multiple threads.

Other great threads.

Where is newsnight.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...533&highlight=

Bradley is top news story.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...826&highlight=

BBC News from USA.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...705&highlight=

BBC News leads with a gun story.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...646&highlight=
People can start threads on whatever they want, stop trying to police the forums.
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Old 30-12-2016, 11:38
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News bulletins are easily extendable, I don't see the problem.
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Old 30-12-2016, 11:41
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People can start threads on whatever they want, stop trying to police the forums.
But most add a comment to an existing relevant thread, as you do here. A handful start a new thread whenever they think of something trivial (and often seem to never look at the thread again). In most of the forums there are long running threads that run indefinitely.
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Old 30-12-2016, 12:56
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its the #mediablackout
What is this?

It was all over my Facebook last night, people saying there's been a major death and there's a blackout.

I thought there might have been something to it when Adrian Goldberg had quite a lengthy pre-recorded feature last night on Five Live as I remember Breakfast did that back in January before announcing the death of David Bowie, but AG just carried on as normal afterwards.
It was a fake news report that HMTQ had died........
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Old 30-12-2016, 13:44
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People can start threads on whatever they want, stop trying to police the forums.
I will leave that to you, as you like to respond to every single one of my posts.
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Old 30-12-2016, 13:46
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But most add a comment to an existing relevant thread, as you do here. A handful start a new thread whenever they think of something trivial (and often seem to never look at the thread again). In most of the forums there are long running threads that run indefinitely.
Thanks, agree, do not worry, it's just that particular poster has a big thing about me and jumps on every single post of mine. Well not exclusively me, but a few he dislikes.
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Old 30-12-2016, 14:01
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Puzzles me why Goldberg takes a break from Wm but pops up on Five Live!
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Old 30-12-2016, 14:33
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It was a fake news report that HMTQ had died........
I get a feeling the whole 'Fake News' issue is going to become quite a thing in 2017.

The amount of times I see my friends on Facebook getting upset/angry over 'news' that is clearly fake is quite worrying. So many people seem to take things at face value, commenting and reposting things that never actually happened.
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Old 30-12-2016, 14:43
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I get a feeling the whole 'Fake News' issue is going to become quite a thing in 2017.

The amount of times I see my friends on Facebook getting upset/angry over 'news' that is clearly fake is quite worrying. So many people seem to take things at face value, commenting and reposting things that never actually happened.
What's worse is that people only read the headlines in their Facebook/Twitter feeds, so don't even know if it's from a reputable source.

You've also got people saying genuine news from the likes of the BBC is fake! It's such a mess at the moment.
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Old 30-12-2016, 15:59
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I get a feeling the whole 'Fake News' issue is going to become quite a thing in 2017.

The amount of times I see my friends on Facebook getting upset/angry over 'news' that is clearly fake is quite worrying. So many people seem to take things at face value, commenting and reposting things that never actually happened.
If the White House staff do not keep Trump under control then I suspect that it might be difficult to separate real Tweets etc from him from false ones. Up to now POTUS has been carefully controlled by his staff, Obama is the first to be allowed a mobile phone after he made a fuss about it and a specially modified secure one was supplied to him.
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Old 30-12-2016, 17:01
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Isn't the point of News at Ten, so it does the big political stories.
Mind you Houses of Westminster not sitting.
Hollyrood having a break
As are Stormont, Brussels, Welsh Assembly. So that saves 10 minutes of news.
Often features, like NHS is bad, Motorways useless, another 5 minutes.

So that 30 minutes normally leaves 15-20 mins, reduced to 10 minutes.

Stops the Worid.
Lobby MPs, we are being short changed 5-10 minutes over the Holidays.
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