NJ
I'd simply echo what Pete wrote above - "this [Rota] stuff that is just either logging or speculation about newsreader working hours. It's creepy" and I would also argue what London Lite said above - "The only time rota chat is useful is when there's a significant change".
That's where I stand on the issue. If Presenter X retires and their strand is retired and/or Presenter Y takes over and that changes that section of the BBC News channel schedule from a presentation point of view , yes fine, discuss it for a bit. But when we get to "where's Presenter Y gone? I don't like Presenter Z in that slot, he/she doesn't work", that's not really what a lot of us signed up for.
I've been here 19 years, I'm practically part of the furniture. I think I can reasonably work out what a lot of us founders signed up for by now, and it wasn't "why is Fred doing the News Hour instead of Shaggy?" type posts. No, I signed up for TV Forum, which is defined on the home page as discussing "television presentation and news, branding, schedules and programmes". I'd be inclined to argue the regular rolling news portions of news channels (outside of Breaking News) are not programmes. Their presentation graphics and their other stuff (The Pledge, Outside Source and what not), yeah fine, let's discuss how wonderful/meh/crap the graphics/presentation/back half programmes/whatever is on Sky/BBC/CNN/RT.
That's where I stand on the issue. If Presenter X retires and their strand is retired and/or Presenter Y takes over and that changes that section of the BBC News channel schedule from a presentation point of view , yes fine, discuss it for a bit. But when we get to "where's Presenter Y gone? I don't like Presenter Z in that slot, he/she doesn't work", that's not really what a lot of us signed up for.
I've been here 19 years, I'm practically part of the furniture. I think I can reasonably work out what a lot of us founders signed up for by now, and it wasn't "why is Fred doing the News Hour instead of Shaggy?" type posts. No, I signed up for TV Forum, which is defined on the home page as discussing "television presentation and news, branding, schedules and programmes". I'd be inclined to argue the regular rolling news portions of news channels (outside of Breaking News) are not programmes. Their presentation graphics and their other stuff (The Pledge, Outside Source and what not), yeah fine, let's discuss how wonderful/meh/crap the graphics/presentation/back half programmes/whatever is on Sky/BBC/CNN/RT.