![]() Televising the BBC Radio London interview (in the UK) with the Met Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, this morning worked well. If the UK stream is going to break away from the international channel for lengthy periods, perhaps have an option to continue watching the international version of the channel? Red button/IPTV options? On Monday afternoon, UK viewers didn’t get an international news service nor did they get proper coverage of UK domestic stories. Whilst UK viewers would want to see important domestic stories reported properly, there’s a happy medium to be had here – and over two-and-a-half hours of almost continuous coverage of a single story, with a lot of repetition, doesn’t feel like it’s hitting the mark. ![]() The UK opt-out that we saw on Monday ran from 2.20pm until shortly before 5pm and concentrated on a single story – the sentencing of Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s killer. Lower-third real estate could definitely be put to much better use too. None of this is properly signposted and it all feels rather muddled and fragmented.Ĭould UK website content be put through a graphics engine and presented to UK viewers in a more structured, consistent and meaningful way?įor example, a split screen arrangement, with the international content playing out uninterrupted, alongside a text-based UK service. But this is difficult for the casual viewer to follow. There are other fixed spots in the schedule where there’s an opportunity to present UK-specific content. Although the content does appear to be sourced from the website. The random individual stories presented to UK viewers during some of the international ad breaks – branded Across the UK – is not what we had in mind. And these sources are, undeniably, where the vast majority of the BBC audience in the UK get their news.īut could some of that online content be presented on the UK version of the TV news channel, for the portion of the audience that prefer the linear TV route? UK audiences still have a rich pool of domestic coverage online and via BBC One news programming. That said, for some time now, it has felt like international viewers are being subjected to more UK-specific content as a result of the simulcasting across the two news channels.īut how might we get a better balance for the two audiences (UK v International) whilst continuing to live within the current budget constraints?īBC News believes a bigger portion of its resourcing should now be invested in digital production – primarily the website operation and associated social media channels. Ultimately, even an international channel from BBC News is going to have a UK slant. And let’s face it, we’ve had simulcast programming on BBC News Channel/BBC World News for quite a while now – it all feels quite familiar at this stage. Whilst there are definitely rough edges, it does not feel anywhere close to being as unappealing for a UK audience as many predicted. It’s very early days but how is the new channel shaping up so far? Some would say the BBC is cynically using the BBC One/Two/Radio 5 simulcasting as a means of increasing the amount of UK-specific content shown on the news channel, in an attempt to placate Ofcom. ![]() Whilst the simulcasting is reducing the programme options available in the UK, there is the counter argument that it is potentially bringing existing programming to an additional audience. And later this month, Nicky Campbell’s Radio 5 Live programme will also appear on the UK version of the TV news channel. Viewers in the UK also get a simulcast of BBC Breakfast, the main BBC One news programmes (weekdays) and BBC Two’s Newsnight. The result is a single TV news channel with an international focus but with an ability to “opt out” of the main international version of the channel, to allow the UK audience to receive dedicated reporting and analysis of particularly significant domestic stories. ![]() The channel of the nations of UK & Ireland is having its broadcasting and programming from the studios of Broadcasting House located in Central London.As of 9am BST on Monday morning, the BBC News Channel in the UK was formally merged with its international sister channel, BBC World News. The channel currently averaging twice the audience of Sky was renamed in 2008 as “BBC News” along with its sibling BBC World as “BBC World News”. In the very next year the channel was brought on the streaming media that placed the news on the web.
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