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Perfect scheduling for a slick late-night BBC One handover – yet still botched

Posted on 29th January 2022 by The Voice
Last updated on 29th January 2022 Filed under Opinion

Three of the BBC One nations were running the same programme schedule last night. And at the end of the evening we had Weather for the Week Ahead at 12.55am and the handover to the BBC News Channel down for 1am. Perfect conditions for a top-of-the-hour handover to the News Channel.

Well, you’d think so. But, as on many occasions, the execution left a lot to be desired – in some parts of the country.

On BBC One Scotland, the decision was taken – quite rightly – to drop some trails from the schedule, so that they could meet the BBC News Channel bang on the top-of-the-hour. A good result for the viewer.

VIDEO: BBC One Scotland handover to the BBC News Channel. Announcer: Dominic Maine. Presenter: Simon Pusey. TX DATE: 29th January 2022. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

Network BBC One (arguably the worst offender when it comes to messy late-night handovers to the News Channel) and BBC One Wales decided to stick with the originally planned batch of trails before and after Weather for the Week Ahead.

The result: they join the News Channel rather clumsily during the report for the top story – needlessly depriving viewers of the opening headlines, which provide the context for the programme.

So – why did Network and Wales not drop some trails, so that they could meet the News Channel at 1am? Were those trails so strategically crucial (at 1am) that they couldn’t be dropped? Is there some sort of silly internal politics about the removal of trails?

One would like to think that a channel director would not be happy with a messy handover like this.

Whatever it is that’s causing these transitions to end up a mess more often than not, needs looking at. No matter what the time of day, even a small TV operation would strive for a higher level of professionalism than this.

You wouldn’t contemplate doing this at 10pm. It’s not acceptable a few hours later either.

VIDEO: BBC One handover to the BBC News Channel. Announcer: Jenni Crane. TX DATE: 29th January 2022. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
VIDEO: BBC One Wales handover to the BBC News Channel. Announcer: TBC. TX DATE: 29th January 2022. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

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PICTURED: BBC One Scotland ident. 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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