Tonight my dad was watching the 'traditional' 6pm news bulletin on BBC 1 rather than the BBC News channel, which is his usual 'go-to' choice of TV news, and I couldn't help thinking this is a bit more laid back, despite it still technically communicating the same articles to us as the main BBC News channel, and of course being part of the very same organisation.
For me, on the BBC 1 bulletins, it's the lack of detailed on-screen text that makes for more comfortable viewing. The only captions that tend to appear on-screen are really the names and roles of the interviewees, and sometimes the name of the place being reported from.
Unlike on the BBC News channel, which seems to have endless on-screen text, which I personally find distracting and too 'in-yer-face', especially when I am trying to make sense of each individual topic being communicated to us by the presenters, but having the text at the bottom of the screen reporting each headline forever changing every few seconds amounts to information overload as far as I am concerned. Sky News also does the same thing.
Does anyone else have difficulty with things like that?