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Why do these clumsy night-time BBC One/BBC News Channel handovers keep happening?

Posted on 23rd October 2021 by The Voice
Last updated on 24th October 2021 Filed under Opinion

Regular readers will know this is one of our longstanding bugbears.

For some reason, BBC One usually puts zero effort into ensuring a professional transition to the BBC News Channel when it wraps up for the day.

The BBC schedulers obviously don’t help the situation by having BBC One’s programmes finish up at all sorts of random times each evening.

However, sometimes the schedulers unwittingly gift BBC One Presentation with a scenario that lends itself to a tidy handover to the BBC News Channel. Yet the Presentation team squanders the opportunity.

I have no idea where the blame lies here: directors, pres editors, media planners or schedulers. And no doubt the cause varies from day-to-day.

This is one of the top channels in the country – it doesn’t matter what time of day it is (in fact, most of these handovers are usually much earlier). The important thing is – the end result looks utterly incompetent. Please…sort it!

Here’s such an example, from the early hours of this morning. The conditions were perfect for joining the News Channel neatly, bang on the hour…but instead, we got this clumsy transition:

VIDEO: BBC One handover to the BBC News Channel. Announcer: Ashleigh Whitfield. TX DATE/TIME: 23rd October 1.57am. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

Although BBC One Scotland and BBC One Wales took the network junctions last night, BBC One Northern Ireland was still up and about. And what a difference we have here. An extra trail inserted and a full News Channel countdown sequence aired, to take us up to 2am exactly and the perfect transition to live programming on the News Channel.

VIDEO: BBC One Northern Ireland handover to the BBC News Channel. Announcer: Michael Higgins. TX DATE/TIME: 23rd October 1.58am. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

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Dates for the Diary

6th/7th February: BBC One West Midlands HD, BBC One East Yorkshire/Lincolnshire HD and BBC Alba HD launch on satellite. BBC One/Two Wales SD services close on satellite.

13th/14th February: BBC One West HD, BBC One South West HD, BBC One Channel Islands HD, BBC One London HD and BBC RB1 HD launch on satellite.

20th/21st February: BBC One North East and Cumbria HD, BBC One North West HD, BBC One Yorkshire HD and BBC Parliament HD launch on satellite. BBC One Scotland SD and BBC Scotland SD services close on satellite.

22nd/23rd February: BBC One South East HD launches on satellite.

February 2023: new set for BBC Midlands Today goes live.

13th February 2023: Sky Kids launches.

Q1 2023: BBC Chameleon branding introduced on air for BBC Weather, CBBC and CBeebies.

April 2023: BBC News Channel and BBC World News merge.

November/December 2023: World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-23).

Q1 2024: SD versions of BBC channels close on satellite.

2024: BBC Four and CBBC go online-only.

2024: BBC Radio 4 Extra goes online-only.

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