BBC News 24

There will be at least 4 yes. Presenters usually get dispatched to larger scale news stories as it allows the reporter who usually covers the area to get info, file reports etc. If a reporter has to feed News 24/World with live updates nearly every hour it doesn't allow much time for them to investigate or obtain information (having a presenter releaves this duty from the reporter). Also having 2 reporters & presenters allows for near on 24 hour coverage (one sleeps, one reports etc).

yes but why does this particular story need 3 correspondents plus a presenter? without sounding crass are they expecting the girl to be found dead? IMO this is just a case of the BBC flexing their muscles and doing it because they 'can'.

No im sure there hoping for a happy ending like everyone else but they have to be prepared and equipped for any outcome or situation. It's what News organisations do! Report as it happens! With something like this situation where a child has gone missing you need people in several places. A reporter to cover the family situation put the parents messages across. A reporter to cover what the police etc are doing and someone to present this regularly to the News channels & progs. Having another reporter is also helpfull in obtaining information and should something change i.e. someone need to travel to a different part of the country it can be all covered easily. Theres more to journalism than just standing in front of a camera once in a while.

Must be a slow news weekend.

Here's the video of the opening of the French Elections special - although there's nothing particularly interesting to watch...

Oh well, at least they made the effort, albeit not a very good one...

Well as expected, Jon Sopel has been superb.

And given his usual appearance on the Politics Show at lunchtime, it occurs to me that the following might be a good TV Forum trivia question, specifically:

Which presenters have presented live programmes from more than one country on the same day?

Are you sure the Politics Show was not pre-recorded? Although Paris is just as accesible from London as Manchester and it is possible he did both Live.

Jon did do both programmes live. I believe he traveled from TVC to Heathrow on the back of a fast motorbike in order to get the plane to Paris.

"fast motorbike"? Not Chris Eakin's then?

Surely at the new environmentally conscious BBC he should be getting the Eurostar and not pointlessly flying across?! Can't be much quicker either, by the time you've got to Heathrow, checked in, taken off, got to Paris, got from CDG to the centre...

agreed.

by the way which studio had the real newsroom backdrop between 1999 abd 2003