i am sure the young family are delightful and i hope they have a good life, but isn't that really more of a tail end, human interest story than a really vital lead? over the next few days and particularly on wednesday when the first pictures of the baby, now revealed to be named archie, was shown, viewers continue to contact us about the tone as well as the extent of the coverage. here is nigel greensit and first, ben adams. the bbc went from reporting the news to its default position of speculation. we still don't know the name, of course. we are waiting. lots of speculation... you are running a news channel. you are not running the tv equivalent of hello or 0k magazines.

was it really necessary to go into so much coverage of a child that is, let's face it, seventh in line to the throne and very unlikely to succeed. with me here at windsor is our correspondence... correspondence are stood outside windsor castle over ever, buckingham palace and commenting on nothing happening or speculation. speculation isn't news so why do they continue to do it? sojoining me now from our tunbridge wells studio is another viewer who got in touch with us this week, john. and here with me is the executive editor of the bbc news channel, sam taylor. john, you contacted us, saying you'd watched about four and a half hours worth of the news channel from 2:00pm on monday. what was on? well, i was watching the bbc baby channel, wasn't i? the announcements that she'd gone into labour i think was about 2pm. but we got nothing else.

i actually don't mind coverage of royal events, but i thought, on what is supposed to be the bbc news channel, they might at least have had reports on the hour of what else was going on in the world. russian air crash, war in israel, trade talks, everything. there weren't even any headlines. lets take that one first, this specific point,sam. the sheer quantity, why was there no other news for such a long stretch on the news channel? obviously, the bbc news channel's most important role among all the bbc services in the end is to provide live and breaking news coverage. so we do, it's fair to say, clear the schedule when we get a big breaking story and we will suspend normal programming while we are doing it. this was a bank holiday monday so part of the programme we drop when we got news of the royal baby and meghan going into labour

was actually recorded programming, documentaries and things that we'd scheduled, a bit like a weekend because it was a bank holiday. so we removed some of those when we had a breaking story. but that is ourjob when there is a breaking story, to work out how long shall we continue with the coverage of a rolling story. we do it partly because we get people tuning in all the time as the story develops and they first learn to hear of it. 0k. so that, if you like, the context in which we will sometimes clear the schedules. right, there is a second part that follows from thatjohn, which is how much new information did you get over the course of those four hours? yes, that was my other main complaint. it became fairly evident fairly soon, they weren't actually going to tell as much. mother and baby doing well. a gender or sex of baby, i think we got the weight of the baby. that was about it. let me put this to sam. because one can feel a bit sorry for you in the news team. three pieces of information repeated all afternoon and then what are you filling the rest of that airtime with? there is a little bit more to it than that,

we had some interesting conversations with people that responded to the news. the story itself took a while to come through, didn't it? so we had the news first of all of the labour and then we had confirmation of the birth and then we heard from prince harry and that, as a story took up the first hour and a half of the coverage john is talking about. i want to reassure john that we do think quite a lot about this balance that we need to strike between our regular viewers who are tuning in and often use the news channel to get a summary of the day's news stories. and then the quite significantly increased numbers of people from elsewhere who tune in when a big story breaks. but you were not doing the summaries, that's a big part of it. why couldn't you have had proper summaries of world news instead ofjust rolling with this? i think that's what i am saying. we think quite a lot about how long to roll on a story for and i came in that afternoon to help the team with that issue. we certainly, as we got further along the period of which we were rolling and it did stop in the end. we stopped and went back to our normal programming schedule. we weighed that up quite a lot.

we were aware there were some other stories around. the interesting thing for us, just to sort of explain the dilemma in a way, when we got round to 5pm and 6pm our audience went up more and more people tuned in than would normally tune in at those hours. we think because more people had been out and had heard the news on an alert and then came back to watch all the footage. we are balancing two different user groups, if you like. sometimes when we are rolling the story we need to compensate by people picking up that news elsewhere. so there was a bbc one bulletin at 6:30pm that had a range of the day's news. our website lead and had a big splash on this story, but then had the other stories underneath. i guess i want to reassure you that i understand what you are saying and the whole judgment call about when have you had enough rolling coverage, versus when have you met the needs of the people who really need to see the rolling coverage, is always going to be a bit of a judgment. ok, john you know it is a rare good news story. it was for one day, as sam said, it was all over eventually. what would you have done differently, what would you have liked the news channel

to run at that period? is itjust interrupting it with more bulletins? interrupting it with bulletins, yes. ok, they planned a big outside broadcast from windsor so might as well make the most of that. so even most of the coverage from windsor, but not all of it forfour and three quarters of an hour. i think that's a really useful feedback. i suppose i am trying to say, i understand what you are saying, john, and i am trying to explain, we try to balance two competing demands, often when there is a story like this. you know, the process sometimes of getting back out of your rolling coverage into something more structured can in itself take a bit of time to organise, because everybody is working on that story and they are really going for it and they are rolling with it for a period of time. so i think this is interesting for us to get your feedback about the point at which some people have had enough and how we balance out with people who want more. that's a good place to end. john, you have been heard. john and sam taylor, thank you both.

three days after the birth of archie harrison mountbatten windsor, the bbc found itself reporting on the behaviour of one of its own radio stars. here is david sillitoe. as the press arrived at danny baker's house this morning, he opened the door to reveal he had just been sacked. the conversation had not been cordial. by mutual agreement it was terminated. the reason, this tweet. a couple and between them a chimpanzee in a coat and a bowler hat and a reference to the royal baby. the showing of the tweet even in that truncated form offended some news watch viewers including philip who e—mailed...

paul hayden had this to say. we asked bbc news about how they handled this and they told us. it has been an exciting week to be a football fan in england. having four english teams in the two european finals and particularly the dramatic comebacks by liverpool and tottenham hotspur were widely reported this week on bbc news.

too widely for some like jan who wrote... and finally, bbc news programme sometimes ask viewers to look away now before they report the results of sports matches but should those spoiler alerts be extended to other events such as the finale of the hit drama series line of duty. that was shown on bbc one on friday night. thank you for all your comments this week. please do get in touch with your opinions about what you see on tv news, online or on social media.

you may even appear on the programme. you can e—mail us or find us on twitter. you can call us and you can watch previous interviews on our website. that's all from us. we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again in the next week. goodbye. hello there. gradually it's an improving picture this week. we've got high pressure moving in which will kill the showers. we'll see more sunshine around and it will turn a little bit warmer for most of us as well. but there's no heatwave on the horizon. it'll feel a lot better than we've experienced over the past week or so. low pressure, which brought wet weather to southern parts of the uk during friday night,

will clear away. we could start off with early showers, particularly across the south—east. these will tend to fizzle out. many places starting off this morning on a chilly note, but bright and with plenty of sunshine. then we'll get the showers going again. in the afternoon they're likely to develop in the northern isles, one or two across scotland, otherwise plenty of sunshine here. quite a chilly breeze across northern coasts. most of the showers will be across central and eastern england. the odd heavy one, maybe the odd rumble of thunder too. the best of the temperatures here in that north—westerly wind. i think we'll see highs around 15—17 degrees. the showers fizzle out tonight, but it will turn chilly. largely clear, a bit of mist and fog. likely a touch of frost across parts of scotland, but less cold in the south and south—east. sunday, high pressure right on top of us, keeping all these weather systems far away from us. so it looks like it's going to be a fine and largely dry day. it will start off chilly, mind you, especially in the north, with light winds and plenty of sunshine. those temperatures will begin to rise in the afternoon. could see some fair weather cloud developing here and there,

and just the outside chance of an isolated shower. but most places will stay dry. temperatures reaching into the upper teens. next week we still have high pressure with us but what it will be doing, certainly as the week wears on, is tapping into cooler air of the north sea, whereas further west it will be tapping into warmer air from the bay of biscay. so it looks like next week, though it will be largely dry with sunny spells because of high pressure, it's more likely to be cooler in the east and a little bit breezy as well, especially along north sea coasts. this is the picture on monday. largely dry. a fairly cool feeling. through the afternoon temperatures will be rising nicely. we should see highs of around 18, maybe 19 celsius in the warmer spots across western areas. generally speaking, the further south and east you are over the next few days, it will be cooler, especially on the coast. inland it is always a few degrees warmer, with temperatures further west doing much better. in fact, the north—west

of scotland could fare best.

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