Knowing the unreliable nature of the BBC's Astons and synchronisation with Video, it was brave to put up a 'Miliband Quits' one at 1730 especially with the imminent ED Miliband reaction due. Could have been a tad embarrassing, to say the least.
Anyone see this very weird thing happen on the 2pm TOTH on Tuesday. Right in the middle of the headlines the music and the commentary stopped and we had a shot of N9 with the lights on but the monitor for interviews turned off. Seemed odd to have any cameras switched on in there.
Knowing the unreliable nature of the BBC's Astons and synchronisation with Video, it was brave to put up a 'Miliband Quits' one at 1730 especially with the imminent ED Miliband reaction due. Could have been a tad embarrassing, to say the least.
Yes I think at the moment it is important to distinguish between the two - especially as the one further down the party is probably the more prominent still now.
Just wondering, when the news channel is double-headed, is there any relevance to the seats they sit in?
I've been noticing, when both normal presenters are there they often swap seats each day - and when a relief presenter comes in, etc. Naga Munchetty, Ellie Crisell, Over 50's Presenters, they tend to sit on the right, next to to narrower, closer Barco screen and the other sits on the left next to the long Barco. Is one of them supposed to be the lead presenter, or this is all just a co-incidence?
Just wondering, when the news channel is double-headed, is there any relevance to the seats they sit in?
I've been noticing, when both normal presenters are there they often swap seats each day - and when a relief presenter comes in, etc. Naga Munchetty, Ellie Crisell, Over 50's Presenters, they tend to sit on the right, next to to narrower, closer Barco screen and the other sits on the left next to the long Barco. Is one of them supposed to be the lead presenter, or this is all just a co-incidence?
Not sure about a lead presenter as such but the one of the left always does the "this is bbc news, the headlines at 10am" bit and introduces them at 1/2 past the hour.
Just wondering, when the news channel is double-headed, is there any relevance to the seats they sit in?
I've been noticing, when both normal presenters are there they often swap seats each day - and when a relief presenter comes in, etc. Naga Munchetty, Ellie Crisell, Over 50's Presenters, they tend to sit on the right, next to to narrower, closer Barco screen and the other sits on the left next to the long Barco. Is one of them supposed to be the lead presenter, or this is all just a co-incidence?
Not sure about a lead presenter as such but the one of the left always does the "this is bbc news, the headlines at 10am" bit and introduces them at 1/2 past the hour.
Good practice is to have the male on the left (as we look at the screen) and the female on the right. That's what I've been told.
Just wondering, when the news channel is double-headed, is there any relevance to the seats they sit in?
I've been noticing, when both normal presenters are there they often swap seats each day - and when a relief presenter comes in, etc. Naga Munchetty, Ellie Crisell, Over 50's Presenters, they tend to sit on the right, next to to narrower, closer Barco screen and the other sits on the left next to the long Barco. Is one of them supposed to be the lead presenter, or this is all just a co-incidence?
Not sure about a lead presenter as such but the one of the left always does the "this is bbc news, the headlines at 10am" bit and introduces them at 1/2 past the hour.
Good practice is to have the male on the left (as we look at the screen) and the female on the right. That's what I've been told.
That's cobblers. As has already been noted in this thread, the presenter screen left always starts at the top of the hour and the top link is split. Then on it tends to flip-flop between the two presenters. They swap seats day to day, and occasionally during a shift to split things up evenly.
The studio layout tends to favour the left hand (from the viewer's perspective) presenter, whom I consider to be the lead of the two, This does of course alternate. However it does seem rare to see some presenters in the 'other' seat.
Jane and Matthew regularly switch seats - most notable because only the one on (our) right hands off to the News at One and back again. Similarly they swap regularly on the evening shifts because the one on the left handles the 18:30-19:00 and 21:20-21:30 slots on their own, with the one on the right handling 21:30-22:00 from N8. Both regular and relief presenters work these slots, so I really wouldn't read too much into the male-female thing.
I would assume the News channel will continue rolling tonight during the BBC News at Six at least (as the 30min bulletin comes from TC7, leaving N6 to stay on air). Come 10pm will be interesting. I would assume that it would make sense to do what they did last night and stick the solo News channel presenter with the BBC World News presenter and simulcast World on the News channel again. This would allow the BBC News at Ten to go out on BBC1 while BBC NC is with World.
For as long as I've been watching BBC News 24 (10 years now), the presenters have alternated positions from day to day. That said, it isn't always cut and dried, as ITV News demonstrates. Normally the male presenter sits on screen left but whenever Alastair Stewart presents, he sits screen right. This is due to poor hearing in his left ear which would make it hard for him to hear his co-presenter if he sat on the left. So, there may well be extenuating circumstances for some of the BBC presenters that we don't know about.