I noticed that Tim Davie said in his speech that the News channel and World News would merge to become simply 'BBC News'.
That was what the News channel was supposed to be called after the 2008 rebrand from BBC News 24. I can't remember what the official line was but I recall insiders saying on TVF that if something was being trailed on say, BBC One, it was to be referenced as coming up on the BBC News channel, but on the channel itself it was simply BBC News. That's never worked very well with both names being used or simply just 'The News channel'.
It's a bit of branding nightmare if they're just going to call it BBC News as we're going to go through this all over again. A presenter on the BBC One bulletins saying 'That's it from the BBC News at Six, more on BBC News, now on BBC One its time for the news where you are' is just going to complicate matters. 'BBC News' means too many things to UK audiences. Its not like Sky News which is primarily a rolling news channel.
For International viewers its less of a problem as there aren't dedicated bulletins as in the UK, but I suspect it'll always be referred to as 'BBC World', 'World' or 'World News' by the general public for the next 2 decades.
Oh and I really hope that finally, we might end up with 16:9 safe graphics rather than legacy 4:3 ones.
That was what the News channel was supposed to be called after the 2008 rebrand from BBC News 24. I can't remember what the official line was but I recall insiders saying on TVF that if something was being trailed on say, BBC One, it was to be referenced as coming up on the BBC News channel, but on the channel itself it was simply BBC News. That's never worked very well with both names being used or simply just 'The News channel'.
It's a bit of branding nightmare if they're just going to call it BBC News as we're going to go through this all over again. A presenter on the BBC One bulletins saying 'That's it from the BBC News at Six, more on BBC News, now on BBC One its time for the news where you are' is just going to complicate matters. 'BBC News' means too many things to UK audiences. Its not like Sky News which is primarily a rolling news channel.
For International viewers its less of a problem as there aren't dedicated bulletins as in the UK, but I suspect it'll always be referred to as 'BBC World', 'World' or 'World News' by the general public for the next 2 decades.
Oh and I really hope that finally, we might end up with 16:9 safe graphics rather than legacy 4:3 ones.
As seen on BBC Newswatch