I suppose the other question is: as she is on contract as a "staffer", what are her contracted hours per week (i.e. is she classed as full or part-time, and could the number of contracted hours have some bearing on what she could be offered, presenting-wise (if, indeed, she is offered anything)?
Don't really know how these things work, within broadcasting.
Guys, as mentioned several times during this thread, Moira Stuart is clearly not suited to rolling news like N24, nor is she possibly suited to being lead presenter on the One or Ten.
However, she DID for several years feature as the mainstay of BBC Weekend News, which was less challenging in terms of interviews and live two-ways. Essentially, BBC weekend news on BBC1 is still like this, so I fail to see why Moira could not be duty newscaster for Saturday and Sunday.
If a really major breaking story was developing, the duty people at News 24 could step in, or BBC1 would probably simulcast with N24 anyway.
Plus, Moira also DID feature for several years as the main co-presenter on the Six and Nine O'clock News. Again, she mainly and only performed "reading" duties (apart from a few extremely rare occasions), whereas the lead presenter (Witchell, Lewis, Humphrys, etc) handled the interviews.
IMO, all of the above could work again - especially Moira handling all of the BBC 1 weekend bulletins as a consistent presenter, as opposed to the current pic-n-mix where we never know who's gonna pop up.
I totally agree. In fact, when the changes at Breakfast were introduced, I was under the impression that in addition to Sunday AM, Moira would be the main weekend News Presenter.
Anyway, I for one can say that I really don't miss those channels at all even though I figured I might.
Likewise, especially as I've now got more channels and unlimited phone for less than I was paying previously, in order to keep my custom. There wasn't enough on Sky One for me to consider switching & it would have been a a pain to switch to BT (in order to get the unlimited phone).
Last week, on Newsnight, there was a report on the upcoming elections, with a report by Michael Crick that was filmed in the Election Studio as staff were rehearsing and getting things together.
If you go to the Newsnight website and download the the weeks podcast dated April 27th, the report is included.
If it were TC7, the lighting boxes had gone, and it looks as it will be a "virtual" type.
I would like to know what proportion of the revenue created by these competitions goes the broadcaster. This dosesn't seem to have been highlighted in programs like Panorama.
Surely GMTV would have been receiving a handsome sum from Opera - if so this means IMO that they are as culpable as Opera and should have checked at every stage that the competitions held in their name were fair and properly excecuted. (This goes for all broadcasters who use contractors to provide these money-spinning items).
The stance they have taken [that they "knew nuuthing" (aka Manuel - Fawlty Towers)] doesn't hold water for me.
Is this the studio where "Dateline London" is broadcast - if so, will they add "Dateline" onto the "London" box?
As a previous poster said, Dateline is broadcast from N8, the News 24 studio; though up until a couple of years ago it was broadcast in the Westminster newsroom.
If Virgin Media have paid Sky for their channels to be on the platform (as I believe they have) then Sky wouldn't be able to easily pull the channels. With the Sky channels on cable it was Sky wanting money for them and them pulling the channels as they didn't get the money they wanted.
Yes, but I mean when that contract expires, they could do to retaliate.
I was under the impression that the contracts had been re-negociated recently and Sky is paying far less for the VM channels now than they were before, so when they demanded almost double for their basic channels to be on VM, it must have felt [to VM]like [Sky was] rubbing salt in the wound. I would think it difficult for VM to pull thier channels, for the time being, at least.
Personally, I hope the drop in revenue for Sky is so much, that shareholders, advertisers, etc put adequate pressure on them to relent.
How about Dick & Dom? If the judges start bickering they could difuse the tension by throwing a bucket of kreemy muck muck at them. Also, if they're lowering the audition ages, we're moving into the CITV/CBBC sector.