BBC News Changes

Instead of the sidebar on BBC News displaying the www.bbc.co.uk/news address it now simply shows www.bbc.co.uk, and did anyone notice the new BBC LDN Weather beginning slide? Looked very strange going into the normal Weather graphics. Just a few extremely minor and unimportant changes I felt I should report on!


(Edited by benjiman at 10:23 pm on Feb. 6, 2002)

On yesterday's 1 o'clock, it kept going back and forth between the two website addresses...

Quite a few BBC News type things to note, none of which particularly deserve their own topic, so I'll bung em all here.

First of all, another thing about LDN is that in the 1:30 bulletin, they now do the weather Breakfast style, with a guy reading the forcast outside with a split screen (yesterday it was like Breakfast's, today there was more of a fade). The guy wasn't one of the national weather team, so I might be wrong, but is this London's first ever BBC regional weather forcaster??

Another thing to do with the weather is that the national studio seems to have slightly dodgy CSO right now, normally it's first class. Also, the forecasters look a bit on the purple side. Is something going on at the weather centre?

Finally, a couple of BBC National News cock-ups over the last couple of days. First of all, on yesterday's 1 o'clock Anna Ford had the old problem of starting to read the intro to the wrong report. After rummaging through her script and all the usual stuff when this happens, she started reading the proper report. Suddenly she stopped, looked up in great annoyance, and said in the graveliest, deepest Anna Ford voice 'Roll it, autocue!'

But the best was on the 10 o'clock on Sunday night. Peter Sissions was handing over to a live report by the political correspondent John Peinar (sp?). Unfortunately, he misprononced his surname. And, yes, he did say that !

I'm glad he wasn't reporting from Penistone!

(A small town in South Yorkshire, Richard Madeley once allegedly said it wrong in the days before he was famous!)

Yes - I saw that too! But the volume was quite low so I wasn't completely sure if it was just me hearing things! John didn't seem to notice, though!

Peter Sissons did say it, Chris Moyles has been replaying it this week on his show.

Oh I live just outside Penistone! There is also a town about 10 miles away called Womb well and one called Jump!

God, the Barnsley area is just so rude! Lol!

Did you know there's a place in the green belt round London called Pratt's Bottom?

I saw a sign to there the other day! I wonder where that name came from!! :

there's a place near Darlington called Pity Me.

Theres also somewhere called Wallop

The BBC ONE regions DOG's were a bit strange today, I don't know if they have been like this a few days or not...
but at first i thought they had been toned down. but then i noticed they showed up like a dark grey on a white background.
Anyone else noticed this?

Ok... now the address seems to have changed back to www.bbc.co.uk/news. Why??!

The BBC seem to be obsessed with plugging that website address of their's don't they? Fact is it's burned into my memory permanently now - I don't need reminding of it constently - I am not a moron, ARRGHH.

For news though, if they must put the web URL on the captions, wouldn't it be better to put the address as news.bbc.co.uk - to go directly to the BBC News server? Much less typing to do than www.bbc.co.uk/news

Give them credit though - of the broadcasters they have this website lark sorted much better than anybody else I can think of.