WA
Just as she did last time
There weeks of broadcasting @5_News from the back bedroom (without the slippers - my son took this sneaky set-up pic...) I'm a solo operator with a fab @ITNProductions team back at base. It looks/feels different but tell me - what works? What doesn't? @channel5_tv pic.twitter.com/ZRUmpuLBtR
— Sian Williams (@sianwilliams100) April 30, 2020
BR
Has to or chooses to? We know Tony Morris opted to continue working at Granada Reports during lockdown - it's all personal choice and none of our business really.
Also very different operations - 5 News is basically a bulletin that could be presented from somebody's bedroom but with BBC News if a host didn't come in there are plenty who can fill in.
Worth remembering to that C4 News has been anchored from home by one of their anchors pretty much throughout as well.
Also very different operations - 5 News is basically a bulletin that could be presented from somebody's bedroom but with BBC News if a host didn't come in there are plenty who can fill in.
Worth remembering to that C4 News has been anchored from home by one of their anchors pretty much throughout as well.
Last edited by Brekkie on 11 November 2020 8:30pm
AS
AlexS
It's interesting that Sian can do 5 News at home but George Alagiah has to come into work for BBC News.
That's just an example of a much wider pattern with regards to differences in attitude between ITN and the BBC with regards to presenters working from home, and in any case it was widely reported that George chose to return to work after recovering from the virus after initially deciding to take time away from the newsroom. Although the BBC has allowed some reporters to work from home depending on the type of story they are working on (the business unit seems to be particularly supportive of home working) BBC newsreaders who were unable to come into work at the height of the first wave were largely either off air or reassigned to alternative duties that didn't involve presenting live programmes, whereas ITN have accommodated (or even encouraged) presentation from home even in cases where it wasn't strictly necessary (such as in the case of C4 presenters who were alternating presenting from home and the studio at one point). The only BBC newsreader to have presented anything from home was Katty Kay who presented WNA from home during the latter part of the Washington studio refit which was delayed due to Covid, a situation that was likely mutually beneficial for the BBC (who didn't have to pay for alternative studio space and benefitted from the use of an area that appeared better on screen than anything they'd have had access to) and Katty. Additionally not everyone will have an area at home that they are willing to have on screen and that is suitable to be used (as well as the potential for other technical issues that would make presenting from some locations impossible).
SO
I don’t think it’s really an ‘ITN’ attitude, but down to the channels they serve. ITV clearly not keen on what we should call PFH, otherwise we’d be seeing it now.
Separately C5 did it for the reasons Sian cited in a recent Telegraph article; it’s seldom been referenced on air and no other presenter has so far done it. Whereas C4 had made a virtue of it with all the presenters taking part (whereas only Jon Snow ever needed to do it).
Separately C5 did it for the reasons Sian cited in a recent Telegraph article; it’s seldom been referenced on air and no other presenter has so far done it. Whereas C4 had made a virtue of it with all the presenters taking part (whereas only Jon Snow ever needed to do it).
BR
In C4's case the bulletin being co-hosted would also be a factor, though they were probably sat just about 2m apart anyway.
Still baffled really they have two hosts for bulletins separated by only an hour, although I assume the 6.30 host does the 8/9pm updates, assuming C5 still have them. I guess someone else does the lunchtime summary?
Still baffled really they have two hosts for bulletins separated by only an hour, although I assume the 6.30 host does the 8/9pm updates, assuming C5 still have them. I guess someone else does the lunchtime summary?
IT
Studio 6 is amazingly small in real life. Although it looks bigger on screen, I bet they wouldn't have been able to keep 2m apart from each other, let alone studio floor staff.
itsrobert
Founding member
In C4's case the bulletin being co-hosted would also be a factor, though they were probably sat just about 2m apart anyway.
Studio 6 is amazingly small in real life. Although it looks bigger on screen, I bet they wouldn't have been able to keep 2m apart from each other, let alone studio floor staff.
WA
Someone else does updates in the evening. Occasionally same person who did earlier.
In C4's case the bulletin being co-hosted would also be a factor, though they were probably sat just about 2m apart anyway.
Still baffled really they have two hosts for bulletins separated by only an hour, although I assume the 6.30 host does the 8/9pm updates, assuming C5 still have them. I guess someone else does the lunchtime summary?
Still baffled really they have two hosts for bulletins separated by only an hour, although I assume the 6.30 host does the 8/9pm updates, assuming C5 still have them. I guess someone else does the lunchtime summary?
Someone else does updates in the evening. Occasionally same person who did earlier.
SP
That's just an example of a much wider pattern with regards to differences in attitude between ITN and the BBC with regards to presenters working from home, and in any case it was widely reported that George chose to return to work after recovering from the virus after initially deciding to take time away from the newsroom. Although the BBC has allowed some reporters to work from home depending on the type of story they are working on (the business unit seems to be particularly supportive of home working) BBC newsreaders who were unable to come into work at the height of the first wave were largely either off air or reassigned to alternative duties that didn't involve presenting live programmes, whereas ITN have accommodated (or even encouraged) presentation from home even in cases where it wasn't strictly necessary (such as in the case of C4 presenters who were alternating presenting from home and the studio at one point). The only BBC newsreader to have presented anything from home was Katty Kay who presented WNA from home during the latter part of the Washington studio refit which was delayed due to Covid, a situation that was likely mutually beneficial for the BBC (who didn't have to pay for alternative studio space and benefitted from the use of an area that appeared better on screen than anything they'd have had access to) and Katty. Additionally not everyone will have an area at home that they are willing to have on screen and that is suitable to be used (as well as the potential for other technical issues that would make presenting from some locations impossible).
I'm not sure it's necessarily an attitude thing, more that the BBC didn't have to present from home? They were able to make NBH Covid Safe by cutting the amount of output so the remaining staff can spread out in the newsroom and the remote cameras and automation mean that they can run with a reduced number of people.
It's interesting that Sian can do 5 News at home but George Alagiah has to come into work for BBC News.
That's just an example of a much wider pattern with regards to differences in attitude between ITN and the BBC with regards to presenters working from home, and in any case it was widely reported that George chose to return to work after recovering from the virus after initially deciding to take time away from the newsroom. Although the BBC has allowed some reporters to work from home depending on the type of story they are working on (the business unit seems to be particularly supportive of home working) BBC newsreaders who were unable to come into work at the height of the first wave were largely either off air or reassigned to alternative duties that didn't involve presenting live programmes, whereas ITN have accommodated (or even encouraged) presentation from home even in cases where it wasn't strictly necessary (such as in the case of C4 presenters who were alternating presenting from home and the studio at one point). The only BBC newsreader to have presented anything from home was Katty Kay who presented WNA from home during the latter part of the Washington studio refit which was delayed due to Covid, a situation that was likely mutually beneficial for the BBC (who didn't have to pay for alternative studio space and benefitted from the use of an area that appeared better on screen than anything they'd have had access to) and Katty. Additionally not everyone will have an area at home that they are willing to have on screen and that is suitable to be used (as well as the potential for other technical issues that would make presenting from some locations impossible).
I'm not sure it's necessarily an attitude thing, more that the BBC didn't have to present from home? They were able to make NBH Covid Safe by cutting the amount of output so the remaining staff can spread out in the newsroom and the remote cameras and automation mean that they can run with a reduced number of people.