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BBC World/BBC News - Technical Issues Again??

I seem to recall Ben Bland did overnight in Millbank a few months back. I'm sure someone has screengrabs and video somewhere.

Are you referring to this?

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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

RDJ posted:
Fiona Bruce makes her presenting debut for ITV tonight hosting a documentary.

Her BBC contract apparently allows her to work for other broadcasters on non-news programmes.


Yeah, I've seen her on Russell Howard's programme for Sky. Which I suppose doesn't fall into news and more comedy.
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Favourite News Themes

The 1999 BBC World Branding produced some pretty dramatic music.
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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

I seem to remember during the US Elections in 2016, however that political story's headlines were put in grey- perhaps to have a neutral colour?
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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

There's someone in C, looks like maybe Simon McCoy sitting at the desk?
EDIT: Whoops! Should have said E.
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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

The freelance journalist Gavin Grey grabbing the opportunities from the Christmas deficit of presenters on the BBC with two hands. He was on the overnight shift this morning (from 0100 to 0600) and then he's on the early evening shift again tonight, presenting WNT.
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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

AlexS posted:
Lewis Vaughan-Jones on the overnight shift tonight, I believe this is his first presenting shift at the BBC.

I've definitely seen him before on the overnight shift, although it was only once.
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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

A very rare glimpse here of the rehearsals for the One O'Clock News with Anna Ford back in 2004:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObZdaw8HuwU


We see Frank Gardner in this, it's from exactly 1 month before he and his cameraman were shot at in Saudi Arabia.
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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Unsurprisingly over the summer months, Gavin Grey becomes quite a regular relief presenter on the late evening/overnight shifts (especially on weekends), but what do people think of him and his style?

Personally, I quite like the authoritative tone (similar to Alastair Yates') and that he sees himself as journalist first and a personality second- such as he only introduces himself by name at the TOTH and no other time, and the links out of breaks are to the point, normally as simple as "this is BBC News and these are the headlines".
There can be a few shakey moments with some stumbles but that can be expected when he doesn't work primarily for the BBC and so won't be as well rehearsed as Huw Edwards.

I would be interested to hear other views on this because I haven't heard a single constructed opinion on him.
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BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

AlexS posted:
World and the NC have simulcasted overnight for as long as I can remember

As far as I can tell, News 24 and World used to have separate feeds from the beginning of News 24 in 1997. This continued for maybe half a year until the BBC found it was not cost effective to have two different presenters and so from some point in 1998 the overnight programme was 'BBC News'
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London Terror Incidents

All of the major broadcasters (Sky and BBC) will be broadcasting in other countries where it won't be post watershed, and so they've got to keep everything clean.


Why do people think this isn't "clean"? Other countries may well be non-English speaking countries so surely it doesn't matter?

Anyway, if this were true, then they should keep *everything* completely child-friendly and broadcast no distressing images or anything like that at all as any child might be watching in a foreign country.


If I'm honest, I haven't heard what the word is, I don't know how bad the word is. But this will still be shown in the US and in Australasia.
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London Terror Incidents

All of the major broadcasters (Sky and BBC) will be broadcasting in other countries where it won't be post watershed, and so they've got to keep everything clean.
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