Omnipresent's posts, page 28

Stuart Murphy to leave Sky

When a senior executive leaves with no job to go there's usually a bit more to it than what is said publicly.

And Friday afternoon is the time of choice when you want to release news quietly.

Sue Lloyd-Roberts 1952-2015

BBC News journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts has died:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34522789

Danny Cohen - Director of TV - BBC

I guess it's ironic for someone who must have a lot of political nous to rise as fast as he has done (without, as many like to point out, having ever made a TV programme) to end up leaving the BBC for falling foul of internal politics.

Danny Cohen - Director of TV - BBC

I wasn't expecting this.

He had quite a meteoric rise at the BBC. Though clearly from the spoof blogs etc he's rubbed a lot of people up the wrong way in the process.

He must have had ambitions to become Director General. Perhaps he's looking to gain a few years of international experience and return as DG? Or he just knows that the end is nigh.

Gordon Honeycombe has died

Very sad news. His calm authority did a lot for TV-AM when the channel went through a very unstable period in the 1980s.

BBC Newsnight

Newsnight is now uploading archive videos to a dedicated YouTube playlist every Thursday and they take requests on Twitter via the hashtag #newsnightarchives

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxnQXiytA_Q5B1QoksCKI9-igDxDqqpN

Discussion: Robert Peston and the BBC/ ITV

Fair play to Peston he has secured some cracking scoops for the BBC, but I have little time for presenters that play contract negotiations out in public through off the record briefings.

No presenter is bigger than the BBC and if Peston wants to take an offer from the ITV then so be it. It's not as if the door would be closed for a return, as per Nick Robinson and Laura Kuenssberg.

Channel 4 News

It was also featured on Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN USA tonight.

BBC News Channel to close on TV? - Lord Hall speech

The world has changed a lot since the late 1990s. It's much easier to report live from anywhere in the world and for images/video to be disseminated. It's a far cry from when the BBC, ITN etc had to fight over scare satellite capacity.

As for the possible closure of the channel,
once again the BBC is engaging in post-event rationalisation to justify budget cuts imposed by the Government. By all means have more simulcasting with BBC1, 2 and BBC World to save money, but no more service closures.

Local TV

Notts TV is to broadcast the "Sam & Amy" breakfast show on East Midlands radio station Gem 106 between 6 and 9am every weekday morning:

http://youtu.be/D-Ud-FF2LhQ

(Edit: Apols for a duplicate post.)

BBC News Channel General Discussion

I've been up late a few days this week to see the News Channel's output post midnight and Newsday feels completely inappropriate for a UK audience that's just about to go to bed. If budget cuts necessitate bringing live output to a close at midnight, then I think it would be better to put out a repeat of Newsnight and the paper review.

Local TV

Nottingham Trent University has taken over Confetti Media, both of whom are members of the consortium behind Notts TV:

http://nottstv.com/categories/news/?bctid=4381025765001

And here's a recent special programme from Notts TV "This Girl Can" on women and sport:

http://nottstv.com/categories/specials/?bctid=4367423294001