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RN
Rolling News
JamesWorldNews posted:
^ It’s hard to believe that Mishal has been doing Sundays for 13 years!! Where has time gone......

Kate Silverton has been doing Saturday's for 12 years since 2008!
EX
excel99
Rolling News posted:
cmthwtv posted:
I wonder if anybody would be able to help me, but I read elsewhere that when Fiona was first moved to the 10 with Huw she also did Sunday. Did she present the evening/lunchtime news as well or was it just the Ten? And when did this end?

Fiona started doing the Ten on Sundays from launch in 2000, alternating with Darren Jordon and others. She did also do the evening bulletin (which was always at 7:35pm for some weird reason) but I don't think she did the lunchtime. That might have been Moira's role who also read the news during Breakfast with Frost. Fiona continued to do Sunday's until 2007ish when after Mishal Husain took over doing them and Fiona joined the Antiques Roadshow.

When the Sunday lunchtimes last got discussed a few weeks ago, someone posted the link to the old On The Record transcripts, which include who presented the news bulletin. During On The Record 'days' it was the evening presenter, including Fiona Bruce on occasion
http://www.bbc.co.uk/otr/intext/20021006_whole.html
Moira presented during The Politics Show though
RN
Rolling News
excel99 posted:
Rolling News posted:
cmthwtv posted:
I wonder if anybody would be able to help me, but I read elsewhere that when Fiona was first moved to the 10 with Huw she also did Sunday. Did she present the evening/lunchtime news as well or was it just the Ten? And when did this end?

Fiona started doing the Ten on Sundays from launch in 2000, alternating with Darren Jordon and others. She did also do the evening bulletin (which was always at 7:35pm for some weird reason) but I don't think she did the lunchtime. That might have been Moira's role who also read the news during Breakfast with Frost. Fiona continued to do Sunday's until 2007ish when after Mishal Husain took over doing them and Fiona joined the Antiques Roadshow.

When the Sunday lunchtimes last got discussed a few weeks ago, someone posted the link to the old On The Record transcripts, which include who presented the news bulletin. During On The Record 'days' it was the evening presenter, including Fiona Bruce on occasion
http://www.bbc.co.uk/otr/intext/20021006_whole.html
Moira presented during The Politics Show though

Indeed, here's a clip from 2002. Thanks.



And one from the early 1990s

NE
Newsroom
cmthwtv posted:
VMPhil posted:
Rolling News posted:
Did focus groups find other newsreaders 'too sombre' as well, which is why most of them were moved on to 'other things in the BBC'?

Ed Stourton - ‘too sombre’
Anna Ford - ‘too snooty’
Peter Sissons - ‘too old-fashioned’

From this HIGNFY clip.


"Huw the little welsh man"

Didn't I read somewhere that they gave him a spruce up before he started the Six?


Excuse me.. "Huw the little welsh man". What the hell does that mean? I'm welsh, he's a friend of mine, us 'Welsh' are not little men.

As for the sprucing up - links please?



cmthwtv posted:
VMPhil posted:
Rolling News posted:
Did focus groups find other newsreaders 'too sombre' as well, which is why most of them were moved on to 'other things in the BBC'?

Ed Stourton - ‘too sombre’
Anna Ford - ‘too snooty’
Peter Sissons - ‘too old-fashioned’

From this HIGNFY clip.


"Huw the little welsh man"

Didn't I read somewhere that they gave him a spruce up before he started the Six?
RN
Rolling News
Not sure when Moira started doing it, here's the first Politics Show in 2003 with Darren reading the news:

NE
Newsroom
Rolling News posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:
^ It’s hard to believe that Mishal has been doing Sundays for 13 years!! Where has time gone......

Kate Silverton has been doing Saturday's for 12 years since 2008!


Kate had 2 kids and it was her choice to do the amount of tv news work she does. I'm a fan, I wish she'd do more, she's openly in interviews and repeatedly says her kids come first no matter what.
CM
cmthwtv
Newsroom posted:

Excuse me.. "Huw the little welsh man". What the hell does that mean? I'm welsh, he's a friend of mine, us 'Welsh' are not little men.

As for the sprucing up - links please?


Watch the clip, they call him Huw the little Welsh man... (and, as a man from a Welsh family I am fully aware Wink )

With the sprucing up, I have no clue, but someone mentioned it here a while back.
NE
Newsroom
cmthwtv posted:
Newsroom posted:

Excuse me.. "Huw the little welsh man". What the hell does that mean? I'm welsh, he's a friend of mine, us 'Welsh' are not little men.

As for the sprucing up - links please?


Watch the clip, they call him Huw the little Welsh man... (and, as a man from a Welsh family I am fully aware Wink )

With the sprucing up, I have no clue, but someone mentioned it here a while back.


With context thanks and LOL!
DE
DE88
JamesWorldNews posted:
That sign-off from Edward Stourton was rather brusque and he actually looked quite angry somehow.


Perfectly understandable if he was disappointed that he wouldn't be doing TV bulletins any more (he'd started on the Today programme on Radio 4 a few months previously), but I think it's a fairly dignified and even gracious sign-off - thanking the viewers for the previous six years.

Martyn Lewis's final sign-off five hours later was also quite short, but dignified.
JK
JKDerry
At last I found the How Do They Do That feature on the behind the scenes of the virtual computer generated BBC News studio 1993-1993. TV Ark used to have it, but since they have come back online, I have been struggling to find it there.

https://www.downvids.net/bbc-how-do-they-do-that-bbc-news-studio-1997-814765.html
scottishtv, AndrewPSSP and Stuart gave kudos
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Revitt
It says video unavailable.
JK
JKDerry
Revitt posted:
It says video unavailable.

I can access it fine

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