I do wonder what this means for studio C, it will go from being on air pretty much 24hrs a day to almost having no use at all. Will they refurbish the studio in this time? Can’t see them spending money on redoing another studio when it now won’t have its own dedicated channel. Will the new single news channel move to studio C and they upgrade E?
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(26-05-2022, 04:14 PM)DTV Wrote: (26-05-2022, 04:11 PM)Newshound47 Wrote: Won’t that mean the end of some of the bulletins being signed?
I suspect that you could still offer signing for a BBC News channel bulletin - the 13:00 News 24 bulletin was signed before they started simulcasting the News at One.
Through considering the new channel will have a different editorial remit to the national bulletins thst could be controversial. Maybe they will end up stream signing of national bulletins online?
I'm absolutely condemning this decision made by Tim Davie, you cannot have a merged BBC News Channel because, one of different time zones around the world and second how are they supposed to report a serious news story in the UK and another news story in another country, I hope Ofcom will reject Tim's proposals as it would have to be approved first before he can do what he likes.
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26-05-2022, 05:46 PM
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Oh dear.
I have no political standpoint on this, but it appears to me that if you continually starve an organisation of funding, then slowly keep kicking the injured body in the head - eventually it will die.
Then the person doing the kicking can claim "It wasn't me", it was 'natural causes'. 
It’ll be interesting if they get this to work, as like others have said, during simulcast hours it often doesn’t work now at the moment.
You either get big domestic stories completely disappearing from the agenda, or alternatively told in a strange manner (“The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson…”)
Or you get lengthy coverage of a domestic story (such as COVID briefings that went on for about an hour) that must be irrelevant to world viewers.
That’s before you factor in all the awkwardness with leaving gaps for advert opt outs and not being able to mention what time it is etc
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26-05-2022, 06:26 PM
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Looking forward to the new BBC News. This is a great chance to re-establish both channels with a strong line up and more rolling news coverage. Hopefully this means a return to double headed presentation, at least in some parts of day, since now they can join the presenting talent from both channels.
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With BBC Four SD and CBBC SD & HD closing, that could potentially mean that capacity is made available for BBC News HD to move from Com7 on Freeview to the BBC PSB mux when Com7 closes in July.
That would be my guess as to what will happen.
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(26-05-2022, 05:55 PM)Andrew Wrote: It’ll be interesting if they get this to work, as like others have said, during simulcast hours it often doesn’t work now at the moment.
You either get big domestic stories completely disappearing from the agenda, or alternatively told in a strange manner (“The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson…”)
Or you get lengthy coverage of a domestic story (such as COVID briefings that went on for about an hour) that must be irrelevant to world viewers.
That’s before you factor in all the awkwardness with leaving gaps for advert opt outs and not being able to mention what time it is etc
I'm looking at this in a very simplistic way, purely based on the fact that BBC is struggling to do everything it currently does because of budgets cuts, and I know the World News Channel makes the BBC money from being able to have adverts on it, and I have no idea how much money from this advertising pays for what goes out on screen compared to the license fee paid by people here in the UK, but why is it the job of the BBC to do news for different countries? Why can't the BBC News Channel concentrate on news that affects the UK for the majority of the time.
(26-05-2022, 06:26 PM)ginnyfan Wrote: Hopefully this means a return to double headed presentation, at least in some parts of day, since now they can join the presenting talent from both channels.
Given that pretty much the main saving in merging the two channels is an ability to cut staff, I imagine that the chances of double-headed presentation is very low. I expect we are going to see another reduction in the BBC News presenter pool over the next few months.
ginnyfan, Well you'll be the only one that will as so many of us including myself condemn this decision made by Tim Davie, yes I hope they can at some point return to double headed presentation you cannot have a merged BBC News Channel because, one of different time zones around the world and second how are they supposed to report a serious news story in the UK and another news story in another country, I hope Ofcom will reject Tim's proposals as it would have to be approved first before he can do what he likes.
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(26-05-2022, 06:28 PM)Worzel Wrote: With BBC Four SD and CBBC SD & HD closing, that could potentially mean that capacity is made available for BBC News HD to move from Com7 on Freeview to the BBC PSB mux when Com7 closes in July.
That would be my guess as to what will happen.
CBBC is not closing until 2025.
(26-05-2022, 06:40 PM)Newshound47 Wrote: (26-05-2022, 06:28 PM)Worzel Wrote: With BBC Four SD and CBBC SD & HD closing, that could potentially mean that capacity is made available for BBC News HD to move from Com7 on Freeview to the BBC PSB mux when Com7 closes in July.
That would be my guess as to what will happen.
CBBC is not closing until 2025. Yes and it has to be approved by Ofcom first before it can be closed, you never know Ofcom might reject the proposals.
(26-05-2022, 06:41 PM)BBCMeridian Wrote: (26-05-2022, 06:40 PM)Newshound47 Wrote: (26-05-2022, 06:28 PM)Worzel Wrote: With BBC Four SD and CBBC SD & HD closing, that could potentially mean that capacity is made available for BBC News HD to move from Com7 on Freeview to the BBC PSB mux when Com7 closes in July.
That would be my guess as to what will happen.
CBBC is not closing until 2025. Yes and it has to be approved by Ofcom first before it can be closed, you never know Ofcom might reject the proposals.
I don't think that they will reject this......bear in mind that Ofcom approved BBC Three's closure back in 2016, the BBC Scotland channel's opening in 2019 and BBC Three's return in 2022. Ofcom has always approved what the BBC decided to do
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