BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Still on his own? Annita was on last night with Tim, so presumably she's not been let go. There was talk when they mentioned reducing the number of weekend presenters that they could reduce the total shifts rather than abolish a whole post. It'll be interesting to see if this continues tomorrow, or if it's a snow/ holiday-related thing.

I noticed there were two programmes scheduled in the back half hour slot between 2000 and 2200. Is this new or has this been the case for a long time?

From what I saw, she coped OK with what was a busy afternoon


Normal unless BBC1 news is scheduled between 2130 and 2200, in which case the 2130 show gets moved to 2330 I think (The 11pm hour normally has no programme in the last half hour)

I've just seen that Nicholas Owen has a new Saturday Classic FM show. I presume he will still continue with his BBC News shifts?

Nick seems to have been absent from his weekend slot on the news channel for a while now, presumably sticking to weekday relief?

He's been on for at least the last 3 Sundays, including this morning

I would prefer to see him as the main presenter of the 5pm newshour.

Yes yes I see him .

Even so, most of this year Maxine seems to have presented the Sunday morning to afternoon slot.

Interesting to see Susanna Reid taking part in the paper review on the Andrew Marr Show - I presume she was filling in for Carol Vorderman - she was down to be on

Andrew confirmed she was filling in for Carol at the end of the paper review I think. Having watched it I felt it would have perhaps been better with just two instead.

You mean Martine, surely

As I said earlier, Maxine seems to have had more time off than actually on screen this year

Annita and Clive both on tonight. Presumably yesterday was some sort of one-off?