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See the rehearsal then the bulletin! (February 2004)

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MO
Moz
Elektrik Media posted:
Moz posted:
Macadam posted:
Moz posted:

I'd tell BBC Scotland to stuff themselves!

Why should we waste BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation license fee on stupid nationalists that want to do their own thing.

Let them fit in with the rest of us!


If you follow your argument about fitting in with 'rest of us' to its logical conclusion, then you're saying that the BBC shouldn't provide BBC Scotland, Wales and NI services at all, just a 'one size fits all' pan-UK service.


I'd be quite happy with that!


Well I live in The Netherlands now- but was born and raised in Linlithgow, and I remember how annoying it was to have everything London-centric.


Hang on! I'm not saying I want London-centric news. Quite the opposite!

I think the resources they plough into the regions would be far better spend if they used their regional reporters to illustrate news which effects the whole UK rather than reporting from London.

For example, rather than reporting from outside the Department of Health if there's some story about waiting lists, they should report from a hospital in Glasgow, the Shetlands, Truro or Leeds.

Political stories needn't come from Palace Green, they can come from a housing estate in Manchester.

Why should the correspondents all be based in London?
NS
NickyS Founding member
Have been reading through and a few points ...
1. Dog is wrong and noggin is correct - the bulletins done especially done for Scotland are live - it is very rare for a BBC News bulletin to be recorded as News can change at the last minute.
2. Jane is lovely ... anyone who has presented knows that you are different when you are on air to when you are off air.
3. The BBC does have correspondents across the country and quite often stories are illustrated from a different part of the nation rather than being in London. For example Richard Bilton is a social affairs correspondent who is based in Leeds specifically so he can reflect how Westminster issues affect the lives of people elsewhere. The BBC has a number of 'network' correspondents across the country - Jon Kay in the West Country, a whole host based in Leeds/Manchester - like Catherine Marston, Richard Wells, John Thorne, Kevin Bocquet, Judith Moritz. Janet Barrie in Newcastle, Peter Lane in Birmingham, Wyre Davies in Cardiff, John Morrison, Andrew Castle and Colin Blane in Scotland. Add to that the specialist correspondents who will move around the country - for example only last night Simon Montague did a piece on speed cameras from (off the top of my head) Lincolnshire showing both sides of the story - ITV News did it from London. Often stories will come from Westminster but I thin it unfair to say that the BBC doesn't report from across the UK on a range of issues.
MO
Moz
NickyS posted:
The BBC does have correspondents across the country and quite often stories are illustrated from a different part of the nation rather than being in London. For example Richard Bilton is a social affairs correspondent who is based in Leeds specifically so he can reflect how Westminster issues affect the lives of people elsewhere. The BBC has a number of 'network' correspondents across the country - Jon Kay in the West Country, a whole host based in Leeds/Manchester - like Catherine Marston, Richard Wells, John Thorne, Kevin Bocquet, Judith Moritz. Janet Barrie in Newcastle, Peter Lane in Birmingham, Wyre Davies in Cardiff, John Morrison, Andrew Castle and Colin Blane in Scotland. Add to that the specialist correspondents who will move around the country - for example only last night Simon Montague did a piece on speed cameras from (off the top of my head) Lincolnshire showing both sides of the story - ITV News did it from London. Often stories will come from Westminster but I thin it unfair to say that the BBC doesn't report from across the UK on a range of issues.


When you provide this list, I realise that I was wrong on this - I hadn't realised the reporters you've listed (who are on the 1/6/10 quite a lot) were based where they are.

Things are obviously getting better, though I think everyone would agree that there's still room for improvement - especially when it comes to politics.

News 24 also doesn't seem to be as regional as it was supposed to have become.
CD
cdd
I captued the video if anyone's interested, only the narrowband version though I'm afraid. PM me if you want the URL to it (17+ Megs, bandwidth concerns). I capped the first 7 mins, that is all the rehearsal bit and a little bit into the main bulletin
BB
Big Brother Founding member
Elektrik Media posted:
Moz posted:
Macadam posted:
Moz posted:

I'd tell BBC Scotland to stuff themselves!

Why should we waste BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation license fee on stupid nationalists that want to do their own thing.

Let them fit in with the rest of us!


If you follow your argument about fitting in with 'rest of us' to its logical conclusion, then you're saying that the BBC shouldn't provide BBC Scotland, Wales and NI services at all, just a 'one size fits all' pan-UK service.


I'd be quite happy with that!


Well I live in The Netherlands now- but was born and raised in Linlithgow, and I remember how annoying it was to have everything London-centric.

It seemed like if a major story broke in Scotland- it would be 4th or 5th in the running order- whereas (taking things to the extreme) if someone dropped a milkbottle in Camden and was suing the dairy- it would get a higher placing.

It is, however, arguable whether there is enough to fill a 30-minute news programme in addition to Reporting Scotland... there lies the argument.

The Scots have expressed their wish at the polls to be slightly removed from Westminster, so this would be a logical progression in those peoples minds...

But then theres this... if the 6 becomes a scottish news service- then Reprting Scotland would then also be a national Scottish news service???

The only way to implement this would be the 6 being the national Scottish news with inserts from London- and the 6.30 slot being given over to Regional news such as Glasgow tonight, or (for example) Inside Inverness or something like that... depending upon which region or sub-opt you would receive.

Just my two eurocents worth!

DG


The idea for a Scottish 6 O'clock news were abandoned where they not. I do recall reading and indeed hearing a report about it. They said that the viewers prefered the current arrangement and it made no difference whether they got a half hour round up on the hour or after the main news bulletin.
BU
Buerkmania
Another (smaller) cockup this morning as well on the UK weather forecast on the broadband console!

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