Wonder why that set hasnt been given a makeover 7 months after the move to NBH
The set got a makeover a few years ago. Plus I don't think they are willing to spend money on a studio that is only used for 2 hours a day. The Singapore studio is the one which really deserves a new larger set since it is used more than the Washington one and is tiny.
As much as those of us on here don't fancy the idea of crashing into the News Channel without an announcement, most viewers won't care.
Indeed, and as I mentioned above, there was an announcement..... just not one from the continuity announcer
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EDIT: Mind you, as pointed out above, a lot of people would have been waiting for this moment, even if they weren't bothered about the rolling coverage otherwise.
That is a good point, anyone tuning in to BBC1 before the baby appeared would have turned over assuming they weren't covering it. As I did in fact, although I went back so I could see it in HD
The BBC made the wrong decision in sticking with The One Show, and it showed with the sloppy cut to BBC News, although as others have said normal viewers probably wouldn't care (especially when most of them had probably turned over to BBC News or ITV already anyway!)
Well according to ITV's Tim Ewart on tonights's NAT, the media were given a 5 minute warning ( even showed his reaction to the 5 minute warning). So once that warning had come you'd think they would have cut off at that point, with proper time to show an ident aswell.
There were several '5 minute warnings' though. Approximately one every 5 minutes from about 18:00 onwards.
I think one of the best things about ITN's coverage is that they don't have a 24-hour news channel to fill time for anymore. At 3pm yesterday, I switched the BBC News channel on and they had Matthew Amroliwala in the studio, Jane Hill at Buckingham Palace and Simon McCoy at the hospital, even though as it turned out the baby didn't appear for another four hours. As much as I like the BBC and ITN News, I think ITN's coverage edged it because they weren't waiting around as long as the BBC were, and the only people I can remember seeing were Alastair and Mary in the studio, and Tim Ewart outside the hospital. I think the BBC's problem is overstaffing during events like this, Newswatch has had complaints about overstaffing during the Mandela coverage. I think ITN benefits from being much smaller than the BBC, because on the whole it gets the balances right.