BBC Breakfast

Where in the article does it say that she's getting £1900 a month? It says that the BBC will pay up to that amount but she is just claiming for travel and hotels.

I certainly have a lot of respect for Susanna pulling off a commute like that. However it is inevitable that she won't be able to keep doing that forever, and I think it is highly likely that in a couple of years time she will find a new London based role.

I think it's inevitable that in the mid term there will be some presenter changes. I can't imagine that bosses are thrilled to have a main team of presenters who only work 6 days a week between them leaving Sundays to be covered by Naga and whichever male presenter they can find. I would have though that they agreeds to this deal to keep the transition as smooth as possible and that, as presenters leave, the replacements will be expected to commit to more shifts.

I think they would have arranged something more permanent for Sundays already if they considered it important, and they do have a fairly regular set of presenters. It's usually Jon Kay/Roger Johnson as the male presenter and Naga for the female presenter - though I'd much rather see Sally Nugent or Fiona Armstrong doing Sundays instead, both are very good at Breakfast I think.

I'm quite surprised the Sunday edition hasn't been quietly returned to London yet considering it only airs for 90 minutes or so on BBC1. I'd imagine to once it is settled in Salford the BBC would want to return to at least a Mon-Thu lead presenting team - it's amazing really how many TV folk get away with a 3-4 day working week when most the top radio DJs front shows five days a week.

Why would they go to the expense of hiring another production team in London to do a seperate show when they have a full team on contract in Salford???
Anyway Breakfast continues on Sunday's on the News channel where it get's audiences not that far off what Daybreak manages terrestrially!!

BBC News Channel
w/e 11 Nov 2012
1 BREAKFAST (SUN 0800) 629,000

BBC News
w/e 28 Oct 2012
1 BREAKFAST (SUN 0800) 628,000

Well they would just do what they used to do and basically brand a News Channel simulcast as Breakfast.


Interesting stats - not far off what the BBC1 airing gets through to 7.30am. It would make sense with DQF moving all kids shows from BBC2 to move the MOTD repeat their and let Breakfast run in full on BBC1.

Yeah I'm sure she would leave one of the most high profile BBC News jobs for shift work on the news Channel Susannah is a smart woman and from that article she knows what a great deal she has. She works 3 days a week and has 4 off!!!!
People seem to forget that for the last few years she spent months on end flying to Belfast every weekend to do Sunday Morning Live.



Yeah they are going to sell off FIVE LIVE, CBBC and BBC Sport and Corporate. I can't wait to purchase the orchestra! What Logic.

No sign of that anytime soon. Both Louise and Bill have moved up there full time and Susanna knows what a great deal she is getting. Oh and Charlie isn't stupid either.

Here is Louise in her new Chester kitchen. http://cheshire.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/bbc-breakfast-presenter-louise-minchin-on-leaving-london-behind-for-a-new-life-in-chester-44761/

Is it really that different from a main team of presenters who only work 7 days a week.

Sundays aren't 'covered' by Naga, she was officially made a presenter on the show over a year ago.



Not really most of them have other jobs. On ITV1 you have Philip and Holly who between them also do Dancing On Ice, The Voice, Surprise Surprise, Mr and Mrs, Celebrity Juice and The Cube.
On Breakfast, Louise has rejoined Five Live, Bill is taking over Songs of Praise and Susanna is doing 2 new shows for BBC ONE.

You're completely right in both of your posts, Cando. Spot on! Out of curiosity, what are the two new shows that Susanna is doing for BBC One?

So Louise works a 5 day week - on 5 Live Mon & Tues, then Breakfast on Thursday, Friday & Saturday.

She was excellent today with the dinosaur on the plaza on Breakfast - so funny & entertaining. They didn't have an outside space at TVC which was as flexible as the plaza has been. Plus MediaCityUK and the Quays looked great on camera this morning.

My dad works four days a week and he's not "getting away with it", he does it because he works long and inconvenient hours. And he doesn't work on telly either, he works in a factory. And my mum works three days a week and isn't "getting away with it", she's doing it based on the schedules in work and the work-life balance she wishes to maintain, and is paid accordingly.

And I'm pretty sure presenting three and a quarter hours of complicated live television, getting up at 4am and having people on the internet slag you off every day is quite hard work, actually. You may as well argue Brucie should do The One Show as well as Strictly because at the moment he's only got a one day working week.

In addition, it clearly makes sense on a programme where you have a presenting team to vary the line-ups and not highlight obvious senior presenters that are on every day, because that means the appeal of the show is too wrapped up in the presenters and if they leave then there's a huge chasm and the ratings could plummet. Whereas if you have a team of four regular presenters the show is the star and not the presenters.

Very tunnel vision view you have there Cando. Why wouldn't Susannah continue presenting on the News Channel from London (Breakfast is on the News Channel too!) if she wanted to, it's no bad place to be. Many other BBC High Profile presenters still do shifts on the News Channel that are not simulcast elsewhere (Huw Edwards, Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel etc). Flying to Belfast for a one hour long weekly show is hardly grinding in the same way a daily commute between London & Manchester on the train is. By doing what she is currently is setting herself up for better things (which I don't blame her for).

It's perfect logic to split the BBC in half like they have. The day will come when the licence fee is no more and it makes it far easier to deal with if things are not all in the same boat. They made no issue of outsourcing all the broadcast facilities to Red Bee, who's to say the BBC haven't considered tendering BBC Sport or other departments out to private companies to run. Easier again if you have a handful of departments already in a building on their own. I'm not saying it is the case but I certainly wouldn't rule it out.