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Well yes I know that but people on here speak about shift on World as if they were shifts on News 24, when there is quite an important difference. Somebody reading the news on the World Service overnight on New Year's Eve is probably far more famous than Radio 4's most famous presenter. Just not in the UK.
BBC World [soon to be BBC World News]
itsrobert posted:
Well, it is the graveyard shift for her because she is living in the UK. She doesn't span every time zone! I'm sure at 3.00am she'd rather be tucked up in bed. It might not be graveyard in terms of viewers but it certainly is for her.
Well yes I know that but people on here speak about shift on World as if they were shifts on News 24, when there is quite an important difference. Somebody reading the news on the World Service overnight on New Year's Eve is probably far more famous than Radio 4's most famous presenter. Just not in the UK.
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He was actually one of the very first pioneer anchors on BBC World when it started out in the early 90's (it was called BBC World Service Television in those days).
Julian Marshall appeared on the channel alongside Riz Khan (now with AJE), Lindsay Brancher (still at "World") and Richard Whitmore (former BBC Network Newscaster and co-presenter of Moira Stuart on BBC national tv in the UK).
Julian has quite a distinguished broadcasting career.
James
Despite all this experience, he's still much better on the radio than on TV.
BBC World [soon to be BBC World News]
BBC WORLD posted:
cortomaltese posted:
Who's this Julian Marshall bloke reading the news tonight?
He was actually one of the very first pioneer anchors on BBC World when it started out in the early 90's (it was called BBC World Service Television in those days).
Julian Marshall appeared on the channel alongside Riz Khan (now with AJE), Lindsay Brancher (still at "World") and Richard Whitmore (former BBC Network Newscaster and co-presenter of Moira Stuart on BBC national tv in the UK).
Julian has quite a distinguished broadcasting career.
James
Despite all this experience, he's still much better on the radio than on TV.
MA
How can any shift on WORLD be a graveyard shift? Or have you not noticed that for much of the world what in Britain is the night between the 24th/25th is neither night nor any special day? Not even Christmas for many Christians!
BBC World [soon to be BBC World News]
News24 posted:
I see Janat Janil is doing the overnight simulcast, the ultimate graveyard shift of the year.
How can any shift on WORLD be a graveyard shift? Or have you not noticed that for much of the world what in Britain is the night between the 24th/25th is neither night nor any special day? Not even Christmas for many Christians!
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CNN - Your World Today
I've just moved to Germany for a few months and for some reason I get CNN all day but BBC World only in the evenings. I've been watching Your World Today with Jim Clancy and Hala Gourani and it is simply dreadful. Stilted, naff and totally uninteresting - more like Alan Partridge than a leading news channel. I don't know if it's the presenters or the programme but it is a huge relief when CNN switched to the professionalism of London.
MA
BBC News 24
Just to add my tuppence worth to this debate, I think it is worth pointing out that La Repubblica, the Italian newspaper, has given this story the first fives pages of today's edition, and it has been number one on the RAI's bulletins too. LR suggesting (although it does exaggerate at times, being Italian!) that he may have been in effect a dirty bomb, so poisonous was the substance. I don't know what the Mediaset channels said about it, Berlusconi and Putin being good chums, but as he wasn't a pretty girl dancing about naked, I can't imagine they gave it too much time.
MA
Honest to god, has there ever been a less charismatic presenter than Ben-bloody-Brown. I find his continued success unbelievable. He was a workmanlike, if unremarkable, reporter. He's an awful newsreader - dull, lifeless, absolutely no chemistry with his co-presenters.
I can sort of see why Kate Silverton or Emily Maitlis are flavour-of-the-month, even if I'm not a huge fan of either, but Ben Brown's soaring ascent is bizarre. Can someone explain to me what I'm missing?
I can't explain what you're missing but I do agree with you 100%. I don't understand the cult of the reporter at the best of times but at least the others are excellent at what they do. Brown just popped up everywhere, producing reports that told us nothing except for the fact that he was there at the latest story. Then a couple of days later he'd be the other side of the world, producing another undistinguished report. Baffling!
BBC News Thread
Bob Paisley posted:
Honest to god, has there ever been a less charismatic presenter than Ben-bloody-Brown. I find his continued success unbelievable. He was a workmanlike, if unremarkable, reporter. He's an awful newsreader - dull, lifeless, absolutely no chemistry with his co-presenters.
I can sort of see why Kate Silverton or Emily Maitlis are flavour-of-the-month, even if I'm not a huge fan of either, but Ben Brown's soaring ascent is bizarre. Can someone explain to me what I'm missing?
I can't explain what you're missing but I do agree with you 100%. I don't understand the cult of the reporter at the best of times but at least the others are excellent at what they do. Brown just popped up everywhere, producing reports that told us nothing except for the fact that he was there at the latest story. Then a couple of days later he'd be the other side of the world, producing another undistinguished report. Baffling!
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BBC Breakfast
What does Michael Peschardt do the rest of the time? I haven't seen or heard him report from Australia, or anywhere else, for a very very long time.
MA
It must be a personal reason, because its not like she's gone elsewhere and if she had been away she would have been back by now.
Middle East Crisis
Moz posted:
Still no Caroline Hawley, Jerusalem correspondent. Where is she?
It must be a personal reason, because its not like she's gone elsewhere and if she had been away she would have been back by now.
MA
Enquiring minds want to know! She hasn't turned up here in the UK either, whether on TV or radio.
BBC World [soon to be BBC World News]
cortomaltese posted:
I wonder why we have never seen Caroline Hawley throughout this month of Middle East crisis -at least I have never seen here. Wasn't she supposed to be one of the Jerusalem based correspondents?
Enquiring minds want to know! She hasn't turned up here in the UK either, whether on TV or radio.
MA