Friday, 4 December 2015

BBC prepares to make News at Ten longer



The BBC is preparing to lengthen its flagship late evening news bulletin with an expected 10 minutes of regional coverage, creating an overlap with the beginning of Newsnight. In this article it is abut the BBC thinking of  going with Newsnight has seen its funding protected as the rest of BBC News faces cuts, and it retains a team of 12 dedicated reporters with an annual spend of £7m. Expected 10-minute extension would increase competition with Newsnight and comes as rivalry with ITV heats up. This competition is shown to get more viewers .The BBC bulletin regularly brings in more than 4 million viewers, while Newsnight has recently attracted audiences of about 700,000. This would be because of the competition and to compete against ITV.

1. A relaunch of ITV’s News at Ten, anchored by Tom Bradby, has enjoyed a modest revival in viewing figures – increasing by 500,000 to 2 million – although it remains well behind its BBC rival. Huw Edwards, the BBC News presenter, and Bradby have since been engaged in a war of words over their respective ratings, with Edwards observing how far the BBC remained ahead.

2. Reg Dyke wanted Newsnight to be moved to a later 11pm slot to avoid clashing with the BBC1 bulletin when he was director general more than a decade ago, and former executives have suggested such a move would allow Newsnight to be turned into an hour-long programme.

3. The move follows a trial in the five months leading up to last May’s general election, during which regional news coverage was doubled to 15 minutes, and comes at a time when questions have been raised by ministers about whether the News at Ten should be competing head to head with its ITV counterpart.

In my opinion i believe that this is good because it is giving the view of more news for the audiences. Even though there is competition it is fine as to the reason of more news. For example the extended times just gives more updates into what happening around the world. The reason i say this is good because the more news the more we know whats happening. The extenstion may be for viewer reasons but i believe it is a postitive transition. 

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