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BBC News 24

There has to be a balance on schedule chat. Recording every small detail of who's filling in for who is tedious in the extreme, but new names, where they've been before, and whether they're worth hiring makes for interesting reading.

Tim Wilcox's job is clearly filling in for whoever, what makes (I hope) for a more interesting discussion is when he fills 3 shifts in a 24-hour period! Not healthy for the channel, the viewer and probably Mr Wilcox - other than keeping Mrs Wilcox in the style to which she has become accustomed. Arguably as a freelancer you take the work when you can get it, I'm assuming he's freelance, and if the schedules are still 'work in progress', then maybe his place won't last forever.

My other schedule bugbear is when you get a different person in a timeslot everyday of the week. It's been sort of steady the past couple of weeks, despite the holidays, but there was one occasion recently when Joanna Gosling forgot her co-presenters name and consequently apologised by saying it was her fourth co-host that week!
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Longest Current serving newsreader??

Peter Sissons would have been on ITN from the mid 70s on the old News at One/First Report, weekends, and the evening news.
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BBC News 24

That'll be Jenny Scott; ex-Business Reporter and now with Brillopad on The Daily Politics.
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BBC News 24

Emily's not that a beginner at rolling news. Remember her job before BBC London News was the mid-evening shift on Sky News...don't think it's been mentioned but I believe Ben's father Anthony Brown was a newsreader (or should that be newscaster) on ITN.
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bbc 2 news bulliteins

BBC Two had a daily bulletin, usually around 7.30, until Newsnight began 20 or so years ago. The branding was News on 2 and it came compete with its own theme tune. Presumably the weekend bulletins survived for a while because there was no Newsnight. Guess the argument for bringing BBC Two bulletins back is not great now that an increasing number of us have 24 hour news.
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"BBC WORLD"

Peter Marshall has been a reporter on Newsnight for the past few years, but I've never seen him present before.
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BBC Radio Five Live

It's not that I mind where it's presented from. Just the fuss that is made about being "From Birmingham" and then constantly shipping presenters in. There must be plenty of capable presenters in the West Midlands, and yes, Currie was OK.

Incidentally, the only time something exciting happened in Birmingham – the evacuation of the city centre – the studio had to be evacuated.
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"BBC WORLD"

Press Office tells me it's just to make the channel standout in the crowded marketplace, so that everyone will know what it's about. The schedule will be the same as everywhere else (Just the odd schedule change!)
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BBC Radio Five Live

There's also the relationship with Radio 4. On the one hand you have calls for PM to be axed, on the grounds that it is 'repeated' on Five Live, then you have a half hour news bulletin added to the schedule at 5.30 in the morning. The line seems to be that serious news is Radio 4 and fun news is Five Live.

Then you have the comical weekend evening phone-ins from Birmingham. While I'm not calling for the return of Edwina Currie, all of her replacements (and their multiplicity of stand-ins), have been shipped in from elsewhere in the country. I'm sure Stephen Nolan would much rather present from Belfast!

Presumably we'll have more of this when the move to Manchester comes, but for someone who lives in East Anglia, isn't that just swapping one metropolitan bias for another?

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BBC News 24

The ten o'clock bulletin on News 24 isn't that unique, and unless there's a story really breaking at that time, all you usually get is two-ways with the same correspondents you see on BBC One....just in a different order. So I don't think there would be that much to lose by News 24 sharing with BBC One at that time.
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Sky News Thread - Relaunch on Monday

He was a regular on Sunrise before his ill-fated move to GMTV at its launch. If I remember correctly he joined as business editor/presenter, but when the International Business Report was dropped he moved across to presenting. When the first Gulf War took place the joke was that it was possible that when you turned onto Sky News the chances were the presentation team would consist of either Michael Wilson or Stefanie Callister.
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Canal + Groupe font

I believe the font was specially created for them. You'll notice that the cross on the '+' sign is not centred.