BBC News Journalists to stage 2 48 Hour Strikes

for those not monitoring the BBC PRESS site .... here's the latest.

Update 05.11.10, 5.08pm
BBC Breakfast expected to be on air tomorrow morning on BBC One and the BBC News Channel.

Update 05.11.10, 4.30pm
BBC Two – Newsnight will not be on air tonight.

Update 05.11.10, 4.25pm
Radio 4 will broadcast a 15-minute news bulletin at 6pm and is expected to broadcast another at 12midnight.

Update 05.11.10, 4.15pm
The World Tonight on air this evening on Radio 4 at 10pm.

And to think the press claimed we'd get 2 minutes of headlines an hour! Remarkably small amount of filler in what I've seen today - though in a funny way I guess continual breaking news really helps with this.

But I'd be more interested to know how another company - ITN or Sky - would cope in a strike like this. The BBC has such a high number of staff it can better cope with something like this, but what about a smaller organisation?

Our World: Outside Burma on just now - presumably for half an hour.

Creditable effort, to only lose an hour in the key 0600 - 1800 period is good.

Sky EPG shows Newsnight & Review Show still planned, Nothing confirmed to replace it yet? Or BBC haven't informed a change of programming

Not sure if anyone has noticed but the regional news is cut to five minutes this evening - followed by Wild Weather.

How many regions won't be able to put together enough to make it on air? I guess Look East (Cambridge) won't based on their size and picket.

Source?

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WWW.BBC.CO.UK/PROGRAMMES
05-Nov-2010 @ 17:54

Wonder if that's as a sustaining feed for regions that can't do a full half hour, but those that can fill it will?

Well I hope Emma does the 6 and 10 , I was rellay Impressed with Gavin Grey this morning.

Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/london/2010/11/05

Though weirdly a longer broadcast at 1025 - 1032 which either means we'll probably get a longer weather forecast, more padding via trailers or a little early running.

At the end of weakest link just a CA