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BBC News Channel General Discussion

(November 2013)

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Brekkie
Steve in Pudsey posted:
I guess that does beg a question of why the Ten presenter can't do the 8pm summary - although I get that the whole point of the 8 is to reach audiences who are turned off by mainstream news coverage, so there is an argument not to make it look like a trail for the Ten.

It does seem only young female presenters, or Fiona Bruce, is allowed to do the 80s summary which is ridiculous.
LL
London Lite Founding member
When BBC Three closes, how about promoting Sam Naz? Both the 8pm and 60 Seconds bulletins cover a similar remit and wouldn't require the likes of Crisell, Long, Lateef etc.
DV
dvboy
Ronnie_1990 posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
How long before the News Channel and network bulletins start quoting the website address as bbc.com/news on the astons and ticket etc? With simulcasts like Outside Source using that address they might as well start using it domestically in the interests of consistency?


It would make sense.

Do they say bbc.co.uk/news on the news channel UK?

It just re-re-directs to .com


It redirects for you because you're outside the UK. Here it redirects the other way.

They usually just say "BBC News website" and put the address on screen I think.
HB
HarryB
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Westminster has gone purple today...
RO
Ronnie_1990
Is it some sort of green screen? or a real screen.

Some of these BBC backdrops (is that what they are called?) are terrible, like something from the 80's. Quality I mean.

Sky News are on top and much better.
DT
DTV
Ronnie_1990 posted:
Is it some sort of green screen? or a real screen.

Some of these BBC backdrops (is that what they are called?) are terrible, like something from the 80's. Quality I mean.

Sky News are on top and much better.


That Westminster backdrop is a live picture (hence the exact time on Big Ben), that is keyed in. The picture does look off, from usual that suggests either a issue with the keying or the camera.
DO
dosxuk
Amazing how they got Big Ben to show the correct time back in the 80s...
L8
L89
bilky asko posted:
Rkolsen posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Ronnie_1990 posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
How long before the News Channel and network bulletins start quoting the website address as bbc.com/news on the astons and ticket etc? With simulcasts like Outside Source using that address they might as well start using it domestically in the interests of consistency?


It would make sense.

Do they say bbc.co.uk/news on the news channel UK?

It just re-re-directs to .com


That's right. bbc.com/news redirects to the .co.uk here. I suspect it's historical as the BBC didn't own bbc.com until 1999 - Boston Business Computing owned that domain.


I think BBC.com/news sounds a lot better and is a lot easier to say than BBC.co.uk/news. But to be honest why don't they just say BBCNews.com? It redirects to co.uk


bbc.com sounds wrong to me after hearing bbc.co.uk for so long.


I've heard one presenter say bbcnews.com (only once though) but it doesn't feel right. I think they should just keep it at .co.uk for all English language news. .com is more an American thing.

With .news top-level domain proposed you could have the news on its own domain as bbc.news (or redirect).

http://domainnamewire.com/2015/07/16/news-and-site-have-big-first-day/
SP
Steve in Pudsey
L89 posted:
I think they should just keep it at .co.uk for all English language news. .com is more an American thing.


As much as the Yanks might think .com is theirs, it isn't. .us is their country specific TLD, but nobody seems to use it.

ITV and Sky are perfectly happy to use .com, and its less clunky to say on air.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
L89 posted:
.com is more an American thing.


No it isn't. It was originally for COMmercial organisations worldwide.

.us is, as above, designated for America but while there are many addresses with .us on the end, the hoops one has to jump through to get one is incredible, plus great chunks of it are reserved at both state and local level and none of them are very memorable anyway. www.mrc.gen.mn.us doesn't really roll off the tongue.

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With .news top-level domain proposed you could have the news on its own domain as bbc.news (or redirect).


bbc.news is already taken. By the BBC it seems. So yes we may see on air references to "just go to bbc.news" in the near future.
VM
VMPhil
In fact, as of December last year the BBC also owns one of the 'New gTLDs':

https://www.icann.org/resources/agreement/bbc-2014-12-18-en

Delegated in March 2015: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings

So it's possible that we could start seeing addresses like news.bbc being used.
DA
davidhorman
An excellent look of panic from Matt Taylor at the end of his weather bulletin just now as he was left hanging onscreen. It wasn't even for that long.

http://snag.gy/LAJkl.jpg

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