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BBC News (UK) presentation - Reith launch onwards

From Monday 15th July 2019 (July 2019)

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RN
Rolling News
JamesWorldNews posted:
Happy Anniversary, 1, 6 and 10. Relaunched on this day seventeen years ago. And, as pointed out by both TvLive and MediaBoy on Twitter, the programmes launched with a new presenter line-up:

• Anna Ford
• George Alagiah and Sophie Raworth
• Huw Edwards

Feels like only yesterday.......

I was just about to be really annoying and correct you by saying the 1993 relaunch happened in the April but then I realised 17 years ago was actually 2003! How time flies...
JamesWorldNews, NYTV and Owen_ploc gave kudos
HA
harshy Founding member
Jon posted:
harshy posted:
Those old new graphics are better then the current graphics, takes up less space on screen Smile

And what exactly are viewers missing out on with the newer graphics?


Well when it’s breaking news it occupies 33% of the screen where’s before it was 25% at best, these graphics are huge because of the Reith font and the line height due to the non capitalised lettering.

I don’t think the flipper/ticker whatever they call it has to be high as it is.

Should have adapted the nine graphics as a base and modified that.
JF
JF World News
Katty Kay "Three year ago Christian Fraser and I launched a new show on BBC - 100 Days was meant to last, well 100 Days. But the news didn’t stop on either side of the Atlantic so we kept going. Have a funny feeling it won’t get any slower this year either. Thank you all for watching."
GR
gregmc
bilky asko posted:
trivialmatters posted:
bilky asko posted:

Nonsense.


Not nonsense. They look like Category 1 obit graphics. Just a mistake.


So you're guessing?

dosxuk posted:
Obviously this discounts the (very real) possiblity that it was just the old graphics, and old metadata has been removed from whatever drives the graphics so it appears with the wrong colours, text missing and so on.


This seems far more likely to me than it being an obituary graphics package.


I can confirm they were the 2013-2019 Cat 1 obit straps.
RN
Rolling News
JamesWorldNews posted:
Happy Anniversary, 1, 6 and 10. Relaunched on this day seventeen years ago. And, as pointed out by both TvLive and MediaBoy on Twitter, the programmes launched with a new presenter line-up:

• Anna Ford
• George Alagiah and Sophie Raworth
• Huw Edwards

Feels like only yesterday.......

This photo from the 2003 relaunch is interesting, in that everyone on the left half of the photo had either retired or moved on by the end of 2007, and that everyone on the right half has remained in the same position.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/474e42e71dcfef8602e2dfdd484c1f851504df10.jpg
JO
Joe
Remained in the same position? Very impressive, though they’re bound to have pins and needles by now
RN
Rolling News
They'd be hard pressed to do a photo shoot like that now. The only fixed presenters seem to be Dan and Louise on Breakfast, George on the Six and Huw on the Ten.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Rolling News posted:
They'd be hard pressed to do a photo shoot like that now. The only fixed presenters seem to be Dan and Louise on Breakfast, George on the Six and Huw on the Ten.


And nowadays we’d never have four ladies sitting and four men standing behind them either! How times (and attitudes) have changed........
MI
TheMike
Cuts are coming...
Quote:
Popular news programmes, which could include BBC Two’s Victoria Derbyshire and Radio 4’s World At One, are likely to bear the brunt in a push for more centralised commissioning.

The BBC News channel will be unaffected.


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/bbc-faces-wave-of-cuts-as-it-focuses-on-digital-news-przdgmh3j
HA
harshy Founding member
Victoria Derbyshire getting the axe finally! It should never have been on news channel in the first place.
NE
News96
At last! The cut that happened in 2015 due to budget cuts is now getting axed itself Due to Budget cuts! At least this means they'll just do what they did on General Election Day and January 2nd/3rd and have Newsroom Live from 10:00.
Last edited by News96 on 22 January 2020 8:50am
LL
London Lite Founding member
Being reduced to an hour sandwiched between two traditional NC bulletins had to be the beginning of the end.

I'll be sorry to see it go from BBC Two though, where they had something distinctive at least.

Hopefully it'll mean the return to 5 Live for Derbyshire, where mid-mornings really are dire at the moment.

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