Can't say I'm sorry, that late Biz Editon was a bad decision in the first place. Just keep WNT and proper news at toth, as it used to be. I do hope they find something good for Tanya to do.
Anyway, instead of creating one strong channel for both UK and Int, we now have 2 crippled channels.
Can't say I'm sorry, that late Biz Editon was a bad decision in the first place. Just keep WNT and proper news at toth, as it used to be. I do hope they find something good for Tanya to do.
Anyway, instead of creating one strong channel for both UK and Int, we now have 2 crippled channels.
Wouldn't surprise me if WNT was scrapped as part of this cost cutting. WNT is now treated as a weak cousin to all of the other branded bulletins, often being presented by people who have only been presenting a few months (and never had senior reporting posts).
In further tweets Victoria Fritz said an afternoon / evening presenter will be let go.
In that case, it would seem that it's the whole shift being axed. However it should mean the afternoon NC biz bulletins have been saved, for those more likely to watch.
In further tweets Victoria Fritz said an afternoon / evening presenter will be let go.
In that case, it would seem that it's the whole shift being axed. However it should mean the afternoon NC biz bulletins have been saved, for those more likely to watch.
She's also said that the 14:30 show will be the last dedicated business show of the day, and confirmed it as 26 minutes in length.
In further tweets Victoria Fritz said an afternoon / evening presenter will be let go.
In that case, it would seem that it's the whole shift being axed. However it should mean the afternoon NC biz bulletins have been saved, for those more likely to watch.
She's also said that the 14:30 show will be the last dedicated business show of the day, and confirmed it as 26 minutes in length.
So in Europe, a part time service of biz bulletins from 0500-1345 UK time, North America gets the Dow opening at 0830 ET and that's it. Asia seems to be largely unaffected.
My bet is Ben Brown (counterintuitively) leaves the News Channel for a new position as special correspondent, or some kind of new editor level position. He doesn't seem to have a regular slot, and three presenters sharing five shifts a week clearly won't work. That would then leave the afternoon slot to Jane and Simon to share in a similar fashion to Newsroom Live, while also covering the One and Five.
I agree with other posters that it doesn't seem sensible to have a dedicated presenter for the weekend network bulletins - moving Clive to Sundays and adding Kate to the News channel on Saturday evenings would eliminate the duplication, while Martine and Clive could keep similar hours to they currently do covering the evening shift between them on weekdays. In other words, positions might be eliminated and savings reached, without anyone actually leaving the corporation. It's also plausible current NC faces may appear in slots that don't have fixed presenters - like Sunday Breakfast, or various WN programmes.
It's also unclear, as far as I can tell, what the impact is to business bulletins on the News Channel?
I'd like to think Jane and Simon are both too high profile to be let go, unless one took voluntary redundancy. I'm guessing that's Emily now gone from the NC though - does she even still regularly present on Mondays?
It's also unclear, as far as I can tell, what the impact is to business bulletins on the News Channel?
No changes have been announced for biz on the News Channel. Remember they tried getting rid of Business on the news channel once already only for them to realise that they needed a Business correspondent for breaking stories so they may as well present updates every hour anyway.
It's even more important than ever that the NC distinguishes itself from Sky News by providing some business bulletins through the day as a form of PSB. Sky's bulletin is now a 25 minute programme with Ian King at 1830.
I'd like to think Jane and Simon are both too high profile to be let go, unless one took voluntary redundancy. I'm guessing that's Emily now gone from the NC though - does she even still regularly present on Mondays?
I don't like speculating on peoples livelihood but I think we've seen from Sky News when savings have to be made sometimes the best way to do that is to target the high (but not necessarily highest) profile talent and replace them with cheaper relative newbies. There is a higher redudancy payout but long term the savings will likely be more significant, and quite often in redundancy situations it's the perceived "middle" layer which is targetted.
Also TV stations like to hide cuts from viewers so rather than axing one of the two presenters in a co-hosted slot it might be preferred to axe both and replace with someone new. Alternative they could both remain but do less hours (alternate weeks for example), or take on an additional role elsewhere. Whatever happens though it's a horrible process for all concerned - and just because you're on the tele it doesn't make it any easier.
How about axing the Derbyshire show? That'd save some money on studio and production costs. Or at least moving it to E.
I wonder if we're looking at 5-6 hour shifts at the weekends? Also worth noting in the article that the NC would also be live from 2030 again, so I wonder if Outside Source will get the chop for domestic viewers?
Outside Source is 21:00 onwards so I can't see them getting rid unfotunantly. It's made clear in the report that - "The presenter cuts will not affect those whose main role is anchoring programmes on BBC1 or BBC2." - so it looks like Derbyshire will stay i'm afraid.
The changes on World are presumably related to Victoria Fritz's tweet this morning that the late edition of Biz Live would end so i wonder if that Biz shift will go completely.
https://twitter.com/VFritzNews/status/788686035735736320
During the summer Global was axed for extended editions of GMT & Impact, with World News Today coming from Washington most days I wonder whether this was a trial?
Global, Impact, GMT, World News Today...they're all BBC world news bulletins. The only thing that is different is the title.
