BBC News Journalists to stage 2 48 Hour Strikes

No business news on Breakfast either it seems, just as BBC WORLD mentioned, Carol with the weather, Mike with the sport and an in-studio correspondent going by the name of "Samantha Washington"

At a guess, Book Talk?

Radio 4's schedule seems to have changed from the one posted earlier - there's no longer going to be an episode of Just a Minute at 8am. Instead:
0600: Lord Kitchener's Image (from 2007)
06:30 Off the Page (from yesterday)
07:00 News
07:15 The Estuary (1/5 - from 2007)
07:30 Great Lives: Winston Churchill (from September)
08:00 News (edit: with Susan Rae doing the news and a paper review, much like a Sunday morning bulletin, and Rob Bonnet doing sport)
08:15 The Estuary (2/5 - from 2008)
08:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars: Dame Joan Bakewell (from 2009)

at 12:00, You and Yours is replaced by their 40th Birthday edition about the telephone, from last month. Yesterday's The Bottom Line replaces The World at One, and there's still a gap at 5pm where there would be PM.


Last night's Newsnight finished with Jeremy saying "tomorrow - well, I've no idea what's happening tomorrow, so goodnight." At the moment, the BBC Two schedule still suggests that Martha Kearney will present - but then again, it also claims that the Daily Politics and GMT will be on, and I have my doubts about that. Animal Park, anyone?

Sam Washington is now a "financial reporter" speaking on the RBS profits! She was a "consumers affairs" reporter an hour ago!

Ha. Ha. You beat me to it, Chris!

Although, she was astoned as Samantha Washington as Consumer Affairs Reporter. Now she is labelled as Sam Washington, Business Reporter. At the top of the next hour, she will undoubtedly become Sammy Washington as Sports Correspondent.

Love it!

I'll start to really worry if the 9am hour is anchored by Samuel Washington.

I watched that recorded bulletin at midnight last night and I found myself cringing a little about the content. What a great bulletin it was for the BBC to repeat - a story about the strike, followed by a paper review leading with the BBC's Miriam O'Reilly's tribunal over allegedly being advised to have botox to hide her wrinkles on HD TV, followed by some more strike-bashing with Francesca Martinez, then a few lines about 'Jason Manford's Twitter Sex Shame' from The Sun. Not the BBC's finest hour . . .

Switched to BBC News with Simon McCoy now.

Perhaps even though he is not on strike, he is only going to do his normal 8.30 - 11 shift in respect to his colleagues on strike.

I thought I'd have a wee listen to some regional radio.

Five Live is sustaining on Radio Ulster & Foyle, and was sustaining on Radio Scotland & Nan Gaidheal, but they seem to have opted out at 0830 to play a prerecorded programme ('Women on the Web'.) The announcer just gave a rundown on what's on later, presumably replacing live programming.

Radio Wales and Cymru both appear to be doing their own thing; Radio Wales sounded like it might have been live.

BBC London's got Gaby Roslin as usual (and Vanessa Feltz appears to be in too, more's the pity), and to pick a random selection of others, Manchester, WM and Solent appear to be doing normal programmes.

. . . with Ian Payne, incidentally.

EDIT: Haha, 'Comsumer Affairs Correspondent' Samantha Washington now reporting on funding for flood defences!

Lots of technical glitches at 9am, the clock kept dissapering, the headline pulses were out of time with Simon and now they just had a telephone link to Jakarta and it failed after a second.

Simon McCoy now on BBC World. He is interviewing Lucy Adams of "BBC People". I assume that's a fancy name for Human Resources Department?

If anyone fancies covering significant moments, screen captures etc, from the BBC News strike on the TV Forum Twitter page, please can you drop me a DM.

From what we've seen so far it's obvious BBC World is most affected by this. It has live news for only 30 minutes each hour and it's content is largely UK related, very little effort has been made to make it a bit more international considering the simulcast. It's like a totally different channel this morning.