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LL
London Lite Founding member
AlexS posted:


On that note is Sian Welby available if the BBC are no longer requiring the presenters to be meteorologists or even have any meteorological training, or doesn't she tick enough diversity boxes?


Sian Welby has a full time job as a radio presenter on Heart.
DF
DrewF
AlexS posted:
DAN09690 posted:
Another new face (i think) on the national weather - Regional forecaster Lucy Martin doing the weather for the BBC News at One

Even channel 5 now has a qualified weather presenter...

On that note is Sian Welby available if the BBC are no longer requiring the presenters to be meteorologists or even have any meteorological training, or doesn't she tick enough diversity boxes?


1) Clearly she is a qualified weather presenter or she would not be presenting the weather
2) How you know she doesn't have meteorological training?
3) Not sure what "ticking diversity boxes" or Sian Welby has to do with it. The BBC used an existing regional weather presenter to present the national weather, as they have been doing for the last few weeks. That's really all that happened here!
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flaziola
I think AlexS is trying to suggest that Lucy may have got preferential treatment for getting that gig owing to her very insignificant and immaterial disability.
Completely unfounded in my opinion.
DF
DrewF
flaziola posted:
I think AlexS is trying to suggest that Lucy may have got preferential treatment for getting that gig owing to her very insignificant and immaterial disability.
Completely unfounded in my opinion.


I think so too - in which case I suggest to him Digital Spy is the place to go Smile
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DB
dbl
AlexS posted:

On that note is Sian Welby available if the BBC are no longer requiring the presenters to be meteorologists or even have any meteorological training, or doesn't she tick enough diversity boxes?

I don't know if you've seen her Snapchat, but looks busy to me. (Heart, BBC One social media, Formula E)
Last edited by dbl on 23 August 2017 7:14pm
CA
Cando
flaziola posted:
I think AlexS is trying to suggest that Lucy may have got preferential treatment for getting that gig owing to her very insignificant and immaterial disability.
Completely unfounded in my opinion.

Quite a pattern, he has a chip on his shoulder about Muslim presenters and reporters too as we've seen in previous threads.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Lucy along with BBC Wales' Behnaz Akhgar have been covering network shifts throughout August. No big deal.

13 days later

AN
Andrew Founding member
Jo Blythe with the ITV National Weather tonight
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wellandtruly25
Jo was a natural. Lucy Veresamy Twitter has been updated to Meteogroup. Seems odd considering Met Office provide weather for ITV. I wonder if she's about to jump ship to the BBC seeing as Meteogroup have the new contract?
LL
London Lite Founding member
wellandtruly25 posted:
Jo was a natural.


Jo is a rarity among the regional ITV forecasters who should have gone national at least a decade ago.
RD
RDJ
London Lite posted:
wellandtruly25 posted:
Jo was a natural.


Jo is a rarity among the regional ITV forecasters who should have gone national at least a decade ago.


Jo did do the National forecasts around a decade ago but only on a cover basis.

I believe we may see more of the likes of Jo and Manali whilst Lucy and Alex is covering GMB for Laura's absence.
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Steve in Pudsey
As much as I appreciate the sentiment, I'm not sure "she's a natural" is the right compliment for somebody who has been doing essentially that job for well over 10 years!

I know when Leeds was the GMG North weather hub Jon Mitchell would cover network forecasts from time to time, I guess if he was unavailable Jo or Kerrie might have deputised.

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