It seems like a massive waste of money, the national presenter gets paid the same, if not more, as the NC presenters yet only do half an hour a day plus trails and prep before. I suppose
now
it isn't as bad in Huw's case as he does the NC Five (that is if it isn't another salary on top of his National one). I am guessing that George will get paid separately for GMT and the Six, as they count as two jobs, rather than two duties under one job?
Daniel, that is a very simplistic and naive view of how these things work. If you think the National presenter only works for half an hour with a bit of prep time before then you're mistaken. There's a lot more to it behind the scenes than that. Just take a look at some of the behind the scenes videos on YouTube. There are meetings to attend, scripts to prepare, correspondents with whom to liaise. They don't just turn up a few minutes before TX and read words that other people have written.
And I really wouldn't get into salaries if I were you. For a start, that is a very personal thing and is rather tasteless to speculate about; and secondly, it's frightfully complicated as some will be staffers and others freelance and thus paid by the hour. And hours don't just equate to on air time, either.
You're all missing the point that having a separate National presenter allows that person to be involved in editorial decisions about the programmes, agreeing questions with any correspondents due to feature in the bulletins, writing their own scripts etc. I sometimes wonder how some of you think a National bulletin gets to air. If they were all done by the News Channel they would be rather scruffy around the edges. The One O'Clock News, for instance, is quite a hairy show by all accounts. They can get away with it at that time of day, but the evening bulletins rightly need to be polished and professional - even at weekends.
True point.
Anyway, last half an hour of the fake night time backdrop.
It seems like a massive waste of money, the national presenter gets paid the same, if not more, as the NC presenters yet only do half an hour a day plus trails and prep before. I suppose
now
it isn't as bad in Huw's case as he does the NC Five (that is if it isn't another salary on top of his National one). I am guessing that George will get paid separately for GMT and the Six, as they count as two jobs, rather than two duties under one job?
Ideally, in ascending order, which set of presenters should get the lowest, highest: N24 presenters, NN presenters, nationals, WN?
Of course I know prep time isn't 'a bit', it is quite long! And I would never go into figures, I'm just saying in general the National presenter will probably get paid more than the NC presenter - freelance etc permitting. One question, does George and Jon's jobs with Domestic and World count as two separate jobs?
Daniel, that is a very simplistic and naive view of how these things work. If you think the National presenter only works for half an hour with a bit of prep time before then you're mistaken. There's a lot more to it behind the scenes than that. Just take a look at some of the behind the scenes videos on YouTube. There are meetings to attend, scripts to prepare, correspondents with whom to liaise. They don't just turn up a few minutes before TX and read words that other people have written.
And I really wouldn't get into salaries if I were you. For a start, that is a very personal thing and is rather tasteless to speculate about; and secondly, it's frightfully complicated as some will be staffers and others freelance and thus paid by the hour. And hours don't just equate to on air time, either.
I take issue with most what is said above.
Why does it take the presenter of a 30 minute bulletin more time to prepare for something that a News Channel presenter just has to deal with if it breaks when their on air. It's the NC presenters who work harder?
As for salaries? Why are they so secret? They're civil servants in effect and we pay their wages, so we should be told what they earn.
It seems like a massive waste of money, the national presenter gets paid the same, if not more, as the NC presenters yet only do half an hour a day plus trails and prep before. I suppose
now
it isn't as bad in Huw's case as he does the NC Five (that is if it isn't another salary on top of his National one). I am guessing that George will get paid separately for GMT and the Six, as they count as two jobs, rather than two duties under one job?
Ideally, in ascending order, which set of presenters should get the lowest, highest: N24 presenters, NN presenters, nationals, WN?
NN?
World is separately funded so that isn't in this.
Personally I think it should be N24/Weekend, National, Feature programme Presenters (GMT, Global etc), Breakfast.
It seems like a massive waste of money, the national presenter gets paid the same, if not more, as the NC presenters yet only do half an hour a day plus trails and prep before. I suppose
now
it isn't as bad in Huw's case as he does the NC Five (that is if it isn't another salary on top of his National one). I am guessing that George will get paid separately for GMT and the Six, as they count as two jobs, rather than two duties under one job?
Ideally, in ascending order, which set of presenters should get the lowest, highest: N24 presenters, NN presenters, nationals, WN?
NN?
World is separately funded so that isn't in this.
Personally I think it should be N24/Weekend, National, Feature programme Presenters (GMT, Global etc), Breakfast.
I'd put NN under Feature programmes as well as Sunday Politics, Andrew Marr etc. Obviously for Sunday/Daily they'd get paid more as it is more work, I'm not saying all feature presenters would get paid the same. Also presenter surely shouldn't get paid a constant salary, they should only get paid when they appear on screen/do any reports or editorial stuff. Not the BBC as much, but in general.
Of course I know prep time isn't 'a bit', it is quite long! And I would never go into figures, I'm just saying in general the National presenter will probably get paid more than the NC presenter - freelance etc permitting. One question, does George and Jon's jobs with Domestic and World count as two separate jobs?
also how does BBC make it clear to presenters working on both WN and NC that the money came from either licence fee or from the commercially-funded BBC Global News, Ltd?
Does it have to be spelled out 