BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

It's funny how by backing up their decision they manage to criticise their own past coverage. Basically saying flying out news presenters is daft, unnecessary and they are less informed than the reporters already there.

Due to the BBC's unassailable lead at the top, this decision won't effect how many people watch BBC News at all, which is either good news or bad news, depending on which way you look at it.

How long before they start getting criticised for having more reporters at London locations (eg Westminster) when previously they would have sent the anchor there?

It'll be interesting to see if this actually turns out and actually effects the big BBC One bulletins.

If there is a major news story and ITV fly out Mark Austin, will the BBC really resist not flying out Huw Edwards?

Constructing studios outside Westminster for the Brexit vote could be described as lavish, but would they really not do it?

The issue is they have in the past often sent the One/Six/Ten presenter to the same location where a correspondent has done perfectly well all day. It is perhaps not the best use of resources and is an easy criticism to make. There's always a backup presenter in the studio in addition, so that's another saving that can be made. The dual deployment of regional and network correspondents (and often duplicate crews and trucks) to the same location is slightly different as they do genuinely have different remits, deadlines and audiences.

Another issue is if we have another event like Paris on our hands

During the past decade-ish (or something?), a number of BBC regional news magazines that had for a long time (or always) been double-headed at 6:30pm have changed to being single-headed instead. All national bulletins on BBC One are single-headed nowadays, are they not? (It can't have been all that many years ago that at least the Six was still double-headed?)

This seemed at the time like a slow gradual trend (apart from NWT doing the exact opposite at some point!), and I'm amazed that all regions aren't already single-headed at 6:30pm by now. Are there many/any double-headed shifts left on the NC anymore?

I think it's just 2-5pm weekdays now and even that isn't guaranteed. (1.45-2 is single headed by the presenter not doing the BBC News at 5).

I've never much cared for that practice. It adds nothing and it makes look like they think they'll be accused of not taking something seriously if they don't send George Alagiah, who then has to read out the rest of the news (of which there usually is some) from the same place.

It's a correspondent's job to be on the scene and they do it well.

If you read the story (and indeed if The Guardian read their own story) the implication in the detail is they won't stop it completely, but it would likely be limited to just Huw or a senior BBC1 news reader being on location, rather than news channel presenters, breakfast presenters and those from radio stations, where the benefit would be significantly less.

I'd be surprised therefore if Huw isn't in the US for the presidential election, but doubt the news channel or indeed Breakfast will be out there.

Could the NC also keep some overseas location presenting, without using their budget, if they simulcast with World News using a World News presenter, as has happened before during major foreign stories?

It'll be interesting to see if this applies to Newsnight, which has been sending presenters to major international stories fairly often since Ian Katz took over as editor.

There is the issue that having an anchor on site for a major breaking news story allows the local correspondent to go away and prepare original film coverage or recordings of the story and interview witnesses rather than having to constantly update the two news channels and the radio stations as well.