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"KotF" wrote:

The simple answer is to switch off the TV and pipe the audio through your
stereo and just listen to it. The pictures (what's left of them) add nothing
(except for weather forecast) - and you can get on with other things too...

I often have 3 or 4 24-hr news channels on simultaneously (albeit with no
sound). How does your solution work?

"Simon Gardner" [dot]co[dot]uk wrote in message
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In article ,
"KotF" wrote:

The simple answer is to switch off the TV and pipe the audio through
your
stereo and just listen to it. The pictures (what's left of them) add
nothing
(except for weather forecast) - and you can get on with other things
too...

I often have 3 or 4 24-hr news channels on simultaneously (albeit with no
sound). How does your solution work?

Ah, so you are the audience that N24 is trying to appeal to?

I can vouch for that.

BBC World is available, somewhat, here in the United States. It was on
December 9th we noticed the new change when PBS provided us with the feed.
We are only priviledged to see the program(me) for a half-hour on PBS here
in the US. However, where I live, we have two PBS stations because we have
two major universities nearby (universities often run PBS affiliated
stations).

I noticed that BBC World had a new change when I tuned in (unfortunately,
late that night) at 5:50 PM to see the last minutes of the program(me). It
was all about some football (what we, not I, call soccer here) celebration
in London. I noticed the BBC World ident not in the lower left corner, but
almost jutting out into the center of the screen. It was sort of
leftish-cornerish-centerish screen. Anyway, I miss the old ident where it
was in the top corner of the screen, but it looks like if I want that
European look, I'll have to go with our relayed feed of DW-TV (Deutsche
Welle Germany).

I like the new music, but I don't like the new graphics, and I REALLY don't
like the location of the ident. Too bad, too.

Also, one of our PBS affilliates (KRWG-TV 22 in Las Cruces, NM) have moved
BBC World's time from 10:30 PM to 6:30 PM, just an hour after seeing it on
KCOS-TV (El Paso's PBS 13).

What's REALLY funny is how BBC America is dealing with this change. BBC
America used to fill in BBC World's ident with a solid blue box and replace
it with the BBC America ident (similar to any other BBC ident at the time
but with "America" tacked on to the end). Now, it looks like BBC America
will have to redo their ident! HA HA! Too bad I have cable now instead of
digi-cable or satellite otherwise I'd be able to see it!

Cheers

"Brett Aaronfield" wrote in message
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Simon Gardner wrote:

Just when you thought nothing could be as crass as the Sun-style $ky
News look, News 21 goes one worse with it's own big-letter all-caps
hide-the actual-picture shouty new look. And the *******s have done it
to BBC World, too.

Yup. I thought the whole point of the revamp was to make it *less* like
Sky News? That's why it was criticised by the government.

Worse is the new DOG. At least before it was top left and didn't have an
opaque background. Now it's permanently in that ugly huge block on the
bottom left.

Pathetic.

Brett

Who's in charge of News 24? These new graphics really need sorting
out. If they'd left the clock as it was, and stuck the same size font
as "BBC NEWS 24" read before, on top of the clock, then that would be
more acceptable. As it stands, it looks the same size as when BBC run
a trailer for something coming up and it takes your eye off the
content you're trying to watch.

And why have a revamp anyway? The old studio was fine. It's still the
same old news, so what the hell is the difference?

Blind people get a reduction in the licence fee. If they make the captions
so large that even the blind can't miss them then perhaps they can make them
pay a higher licence fee and get more money.

Blind people get a reduction in the licence fee. If they make the
captions
so large that even the blind can't miss them then perhaps they can make
them
pay a higher licence fee and get more money.

Since they shrink and grow the headlines, maybe they should put it on a half
second loop and totally go for the annoying pop-up look...

- Steve