BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Genuinely gutted Maxine has left. How are these people 'leaving' defined. Seems a tad coincidental that everyone other than Jane and Joanna have 'left'. Gavin Esler said he had decided to leave, Maxine said she'd decided to return to the world of freelance....

The Channel is barely watchable with some of the presenters on these days.

It's a similar situation to Sky News really where it's the middle tier of presenters seemingly off - the reliable long term faces who may be popular here but they're not the big names of the channel, and their roles could probably be done by someone on a lower pay grade.

The sad fact is that those long-term experienced staff will also be the ones with the larger salaries. Much more can be saved by axing one of those than the cheaper, younger, less experienced presenters. It doesn't make for great viewing at all - but sadly these days everything is about the bottom line.

Being freelance, I doubt this will be the last we see of Maxine on our screens.

I would hardly call the majority of the remaining News Channel presenters either inexperienced or unknown.

Of the regulars on the channel, Joanna Gosling, Annita McVeigh, Simon McCoy, Jane Hill, Clive Myrie, Martine Croxall, Ben Brown, Christian Fraser, and Reeta Chakrabati are all experienced journalists with fairly long BBC careers, backed up by the likes of Shaun Ley, Julian Worricker, Rachel Schofield, etc.

I do think people are over- reacting a tad here.

Gavin Esler is 64 and Maxine is 60 - it is not beyond the bounds of reason to imagine that at this stage of their lives that they wanted to try something new - many people do when they reach their sixties, and most people retire during that time too. The option of availing of a voluntary redundancy scheme (if they did) often makes that a more appealing alternative.

We will of course miss them, but it's probably fair to say that it's perfectly reasonable for them to want to do something else with their lives.

^ What he said. (Last para).

After the newsroom shot at the TOTH, why isn't the camera in the studio doing the usual move around the studio anymore? I noticed it the other day and assumed it was a fault as when I watched the News at 6 the camera did the move as normal, but watching again this afternoon the camera continues to look 'stuck' (but obviously isn't). They're also using a very tight shot of whoever's at the catwalk of news after the TOTH, which equally looks a little bit strange.

It's close to its 60th (month-of-usage) and is therefore being put out to pasture, to be replaced by horribly inexperienced cameras who've no business being there and should frankly hang their heads in shame!

I assumed one of the cameras had gotten stuck (it's happened before of course) but everything is normal on the single headed TOTH. It is odd!

At the beginning of News at Ten there was a quick glimpse of the Newsnight studio then cut away.

BBC New Channel looks like it is in pushback mode but minus any pushback content. All fine on BBC. Ticker on channel and not BBC One which I'd imagine is intended.