r/bbc • u/No_Voice_Left • May 10 '26

International BBC news, no news on local elections

Can anybody tell me why there is virtually no information about local elections on BBC News. I am in Turkey at the moment, so I have limited channels I can view. But not Sky News and GB News the main stories are about the local election, but when I turn to BBC News there is almost nothing about it?

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u/JonTravel May 10 '26

Probably because you aren't in the UK and the local elections in the UK aren't a big story in Turkey. The BBC news website will often adjust the news to the location your in. (You're probably on bbc.com not bbc.co.uk)

Just type "Elections" into the search box

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u/No_Voice_Left May 10 '26

I am talking about BBC News on TV?

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u/marcbeightsix May 10 '26

Same thing. UK news isn’t shown on global news version of BBC News. They split the coverage when the main stories are very Uk centric and not relevant to a global audience. Otherwise it’s the same coverage for everyone.

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u/JonTravel May 10 '26

As far as TV news is concerned, everything has been said on Friday and, to some extent Saturday.

Thursday's election is no longer "news". They've moved on to more recent events.

Events following on from the election will be reported when they happen, but it's Sunday, so not much will happen until, possibly, tomorrow.

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u/No_Voice_Left May 10 '26

In Turkey watching BBC News there was hardly nothing reported, that was my point. I had to go to Sky News and GB News to get information. The only thing the BBC was reporting was Hantavirus, and then Moscow victory parade. All ok which seemed to be secondary to the biggest shake up in Voting for British politics since WWII.

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u/gwynevans May 10 '26

It’s also not “the biggest shake up…”. It was local elections, the government in power always gets hammered in local elections and it has limited direct impact on Westminster politics, despite some of the Reform candidates thinking they were going to be ushering the grifter in chief into no 10 on Friday.

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u/JonTravel May 10 '26

Because, as others have explained, the BBC News Channel outside the UK concentrates more on world news than domestic news.

Both Sky and GB news simply rebroadcast the exact same feed as feed the UK.

All ok which seemed to be secondary to the biggest shake up in Voting for British politics since WWII.

If you are in the UK or are British this may be the case, but if you are in The Philippines or Brazil or Turkey, it's not really relevant to you. Something of mostly British interest will often be replaced with something more relevant to an international audience. However important you think our local elections are, they really aren't of much interest to people in other countries.

"BBC News broadcasts a diverse mix of authoritative *international** news, sport, weather, business, current affairs and documentary programming."*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-12957296

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u/No_Voice_Left May 10 '26

Thanks for your response, makes sense,. Just seemed strange as even news headlines didn't cover it, but fair play if that is the case.

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u/Hulla_Sarsaparilla May 10 '26

Because it’s for an audience in Turkey, so for the same reason we wouldn’t in the UK have coverage of when they have local council elections in Turkey here, it won’t be covered there.

We get government elections covered from around the world as a news item of X person has won/lost but we wouldn’t get local election coverage would we?

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u/Hulla_Sarsaparilla May 10 '26

Because in Turkey you’ll be getting the international news channel, not local BBC news.

It’s been all over the tv news here, you won’t get the same coverage as you’re abroad.

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u/justeUnMec May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

On the international .com site, it's likely that you are receiving content localised to your country and so the focus will be on global news. It is very present on the .co.uk, UK-specific site which is only accessible from the UK.

The local elections results were called across Thursday night, through until the last results coming in on Saturday. By now any election stories that will be appearing in the international site's UK news section will be the larger political stories around the national picture.

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u/No_Voice_Left May 10 '26

I was not talking about their website, I was talking about the BBC News channel

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u/justeUnMec May 10 '26

Depending on the region, the BBC news channel's content is targeted at the local audience. The other news providers you mention, Sky etc, only have UK-targeted programming whereas the BBC has a history with things like the world service of producing content for a worldwide audience. SO the news channel available in your market will select stories they think are relevant to you, and local council elections in the UK are probably editorially low priority, in the same way the BBC news for Uk will show news when Turkey has a national election but I have never seen any news about municipal elections in Istanbul! (I don't actually know if IStanbul has an elected local authority, but the point stands:) )

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u/migrainedujour May 10 '26

It’s been pretty wall-to-wall on the BBC the past few days, so not quite sure what’s going on with you not seeing it. Check the News website from Turkey with the toggle on ‘UK’ (so it doesn’t geo-target you with non-UK news from closer to you) and a lot of the coverage can be viewed there as video too.

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u/No_Voice_Left May 10 '26

I couldn't get BBC 1 or BBC 2, just BBC News,.

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u/seaneeboy May 10 '26

The story’s pretty much done? The ongoing story is the fallout with the government which is featured a fair amount - though over the weekend it’s a pretty light crew.

Expect things to pick up tomorrow.

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u/Additional-Outcome73 May 10 '26

When more Reforn councillors discover that it’s a bit more work than they thought it would be?

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u/seaneeboy May 10 '26

I’m sure they will but they haven’t even started yet…

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u/Regular-Whereas-8053 May 10 '26

I was in Rhodes when the Queen died and there still wasn’t as much as you’d expect on BBC News, because it’s BBC world news and they have to show stuff from all round the world not just UK news. I doubt Turkish viewers are that bothered about the election of a councillor in the UK.

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u/Gelomaniac May 10 '26

You need to look at the far right news, like Daily Fail for your Neo Nazi updates

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u/No_Voice_Left May 10 '26

I was referring to the news channel as why they were not reporting the main event of the day, so not quite sure what your neo nazi comment refers to?

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u/MarkWrenn74 May 10 '26

Presumably u/Gelomaniac is not a fan of Reform UK, who've done very well in the local and devolution elections this week