BBC News at Ten Posted Wed Aug 30 08:15:08 BST 2000 by RB

Assuming they opt for the single main anchor option, who will it be?

5/2 Michael Buerk
3/1 Huw Edwards
7/1 Peter Sissons
15/1 George Alagiah
25/1 Fiona Bruce
25/1 Trevor McDonald
25/1 Kirsty Young
100/1 David Dimbleby
1000/1 Jill Dando
1000/1 Robert Dougall
1001/1 Anna Ford

Any other predictions?
Titles to swap blue for red as main colour, also a blue set rather than a beige one.


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Posted By Richard on Wed Aug 30 10:07:11 BST 2000:

>Assuming they opt for the single main anchor option, who will it be?

I think they'll keep the Buerk/Sissons split that they've had on the '9' for years.

As for the titles, I predict they'll be boring and have very similar titles with a rotating '10' in them. Certianly they'll keep the red and beige.


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Posted By Bean Is A Carrot on Wed Aug 30 12:31:18 BST 2000:

>Assuming they opt for the single main anchor option, who will it be?
>
>5/2 Michael Buerk
>3/1 Huw Edwards
>7/1 Peter Sissons
>15/1 George Alagiah
>25/1 Fiona Bruce
>25/1 Trevor McDonald
>25/1 Kirsty Young
>100/1 David Dimbleby
>1000/1 Jill Dando
>1000/1 Robert Dougall
>1001/1 Anna Ford
>
>Any other predictions?

100000000000000000/1 Chris Morris - though he'd be very good!


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Posted By RB on Wed Aug 30 12:46:38 BST 2000:

>As for the titles, I predict they'll be boring and have very similar titles with a rotating '10' in them. Certianly they'll keep the red and beige.

BBC News switched from a red circle behind the world map to blue ones in the late seventies/early eighties, and a red background to a blue one on the circular Venetian blind logo in the mid-eighties.
As pink-loving Bruce Gyngell pointed out: The grammar of television means that news should be blue.


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Posted By Richard on Wed Aug 30 13:29:33 BST 2000:


>As pink-loving Bruce Gyngell pointed out: The grammar of television means that news should be blue.

There were complaints when the Nine O'Clock news when it changed from a transparent back-drop with grey to a blue backdrop for the '92 election campain. Some people thought it was favouring the Tories.


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Posted By Damian on Wed Aug 30 14:07:47 BST 2000:

The venetian blind titles changed because they got rid of the blinds set. News came from the blue set used for the SIX and 9 bulletins, so the title colour was changed to match.

Anyway, the current BBC News colours are based on the BBC 1 balloon, and their are probably no plans to change that as yet...


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Posted By Bods on Wed Aug 30 15:16:24 BST 2000:


>1000/1 Jill Dando

Only a 1000/1 eh? wow.


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Posted By Jase on Wed Aug 30 15:34:36 BST 2000:

Sarcasm Andrew, you know even though Robert Dougall and Jill Dando are dead, they're still more likely to get the job than Anna Ford. Well I thought it was funny...


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Posted By Richard on Sat Sep 2 23:56:21 BST 2000:

Aparently it will still be Sissons and Buerk - according to the Daily Telegraph.


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Posted By RB on Mon Sep 4 11:23:45 BST 2000:

>Aparently it will still be Sissons and Buerk - according to the Daily Telegraph.

Interesting, if they do. There has been a lot of talk going to a single main anchor, following every other major bulletin.
To do so would give the programme a greater identity and increase press coverage. However, maybe the BBC has decided that it's above all that. Good for it, if it has.


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