Ugh... a rather larger than we're used to aston with the BBC News website address just then, I don't remember the text being that big. It was around double the size it was before.
Ok , so the Six was sort of dual anchored with Ben in Bagdad, but did no one else think, the whole flow was much better with just Natasha? Time to return to a single anchored Six?
Ok , so the Six was sort of dual anchored with Ben in Bagdad, but did no one else think, the whole flow was much better with just Natasha? Time to return to a single anchored Six?
Yeah, totally argee, no need to have a two presenters and the flow of the whole show feel more better.
Ok , so the Six was sort of dual anchored with Ben in Bagdad, but did no one else think, the whole flow was much better with just Natasha? Time to return to a single anchored Six?
Yeah, totally argee, no need to have a two presenters and the flow of the whole show feel more better.
Not even if the newsreaders were Nicholas Witchell and Sue Lawley? It depends on the presenters. Natasha IMO carried it a lot better than Ben.
There he is in Iraq - doesn't he look cool in his jeans! Though he does look a bit like a holidaymaker on the right!!!
and people complain about Mark Austin jetting off all the time
Well, to be fair, at least the BBC only deploy Huw Edwards when there is something important. With the frequency that ITV deploy their presenters on location, I wouldn't be surprised that Mark Austin would be outside Buckingham Palace if the Queen sneezed!
There he is in Iraq - doesn't he look cool in his jeans! Though he does look a bit like a holidaymaker on the right!!!
and people complain about Mark Austin jetting off all the time
Well, to be fair, at least the BBC only deploy Huw Edwards when there is something important. With the frequency that ITV deploy their presenters on location, I wouldn't be surprised that Mark Austin would be outside Buckingham Palace if the Queen sneezed!
I wonder what Mark Austin's carbon footprint is?
But then again, people like the
Daily Mail
would start complaining if the Beeb deployed their presenters anywhere and everywhere. And unless there's a really good presenter like Huw doing it, there's no reason to deploy them - less skilled presenters do better in the studio.
I think one presenter would work better than the current layout, but I think they could just change the layout and it be better. For instance, I think that having both presenters read the top story is a waste of time, and the whole standing up thing gets on my nerves, but what if they copied a mixture of News 24, C4 and ITV? Have the main presenter, say George, start from the desk during the headlines, reading out either the first or most important, then we switch to the other presenter, say Jane, read the other headlines from next to the one of the screens like on News 24. Then at the start we could have the top camera spin (like on News 24) to see both presenters in their positions. Then either presenter would read the first story, either from desk or standing by screen, like on News 24 and similar to ITV in that only 1 person reads the first story. They could then do it similarly to how the BBC used to and how C4 do it now with one presenter (anchor) reading the important news and the other reading the headlines and smaller/ lighter news. What does anyone think?
Or it could just be like the old days, where one presenter reads the headlines, then the regional insert, then the titles, then a camera swing of the presenters, then the presenter who read the headlines does the first story, then 2nd presenter reads 2nd story, then 1st presenter reads 3rd story, and so on.