JW
Lyse Doucet has just tweeted that she is in Washington. I wonder for a spell at anchoring??
CH
Yes maybe covering for Matt next week?
Lyse Doucet has just tweeted that she is in Washington. I wonder for a spell at anchoring??
Yes maybe covering for Matt next week?
DV
Nice bit of banter twixt Sally and Jane/Matthew about her working hours today, a few mins ago.
Sally Nugent presenting with Simon this morning - his co-presenter must have been unable to come in last-minute. The curious thing is Sally still did the sports update, from the desk, and said afterwards 'that's your sport update', to which Simon thanked her, only for her to present news just a minute later.
Sally's not a bad presenter at all, and seems to have some good chemistry with Simon.
Edit: For the 10:15 headlines, Simon did the news headlines and Sally the sports, both from the desk. Actually works quite nicely.
Sally's not a bad presenter at all, and seems to have some good chemistry with Simon.
Edit: For the 10:15 headlines, Simon did the news headlines and Sally the sports, both from the desk. Actually works quite nicely.
Nice bit of banter twixt Sally and Jane/Matthew about her working hours today, a few mins ago.
JW
Yes maybe covering for Matt next week?
It seems she is there to anchor coverage of the Richard Holbrooke memorial service (or maybe just to attend the same), given the Afghanistan links?
Lyse Doucet has just tweeted that she is in Washington. I wonder for a spell at anchoring??
Yes maybe covering for Matt next week?
It seems she is there to anchor coverage of the Richard Holbrooke memorial service (or maybe just to attend the same), given the Afghanistan links?
GS
Gavin Scott
Founding member
I know it's a small thing, but the BBC doesn't use the phrase "anchor", just like they've never used the phrase "newscaster". Tut tut.
As you were.
As you were.
DV
Probably Laura Kuenssberg from the count ...
She's on the scene today
according to this ….
TWITTER.COM/BBCLAURAK
13-Jan-2011 @ 16:47
She's on the scene today
according to this ….
TWITTER.COM/BBCLAURAK
13-Jan-2011 @ 16:47
DV
Jon Sopel is presenting from the studio .....
Quote:
Don't even think about bed. Full coverage of by-election on BBC1 and News channel with me and top political panel, starting at 00.25. Fun
from….
TWITTER.COM/BBCJONSOPEL
13-Jan-2011 @ 21:57
from….
TWITTER.COM/BBCJONSOPEL
13-Jan-2011 @ 21:57
JA
Predictable story in the Daily Mail today about the over 50 newsreaders not getting enough airtime but the last sentence has a BBC spokesman saying that 'Julia Somerville will also be joining the presenting team for the late news on BBC1 on Saturdays.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346649/BBC-ageism-row-Older-stars-work-just-days-month.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346649/BBC-ageism-row-Older-stars-work-just-days-month.html
CH
Interesting - all very well but half of these presenters who they use for Saturday only do about 5 or 6 saturdays a year. Kate does every second saturday, Joanna is a regular and all the others like Matthew, Jane, Simon, Ben, Clive and Riz do inbetween. I bet they'll use her about twice and that willl be it!!
Predictable story in the Daily Mail today about the over 50 newsreaders not getting enough airtime but the last sentence has a BBC spokesman saying that 'Julia Somerville will also be joining the presenting team for the late news on BBC1 on Saturdays.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346649/BBC-ageism-row-Older-stars-work-just-days-month.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346649/BBC-ageism-row-Older-stars-work-just-days-month.html
Interesting - all very well but half of these presenters who they use for Saturday only do about 5 or 6 saturdays a year. Kate does every second saturday, Joanna is a regular and all the others like Matthew, Jane, Simon, Ben, Clive and Riz do inbetween. I bet they'll use her about twice and that willl be it!!
JA
Probably. Really, in these cost-cutting times, its a waste having a separate presenter for these bulletins. As I've said before, a couple of years back they reckoned they were putting the news channel at the heart of the operation and if a regular presenter isn't good enough to appear on a BBC One bulletin then surely they shouldn't be presenting on the news channel either...if they gave the job to Clive Myrie for example, it would give a permanent presenter for weekend evening BBC One bulletins and provide more continuity for the news channel as well rather than a random presenter popping up for 20 minutes or so...[/rant]
HO
I think the question is what these presenters may or may not also be doing behind the scenes - it's possible the newsreader is contributing to scripts or working on other projects in addition to the two BBC 1 shifts, which a NC presenter would be unable to do.
Interesting to hear Julia Somerville will be joining the Saturday bulletins, but she's already presented BBC Breakfast. Also does 'A BBC spokesman said: ‘We have a range of presenters, including Fiona Armstrong, Julia Somerville and Zeinab Badawi who regularly appear on the BBC News Channel', in addition to the Mail's claim about Carole Walker's criticism, suggest she's been dropped as a relief presenter? It would be a shame if she has, but I haven't seen her presenting in a while.
It's also worth remembering that, unlike Julia Somerville and Fiona Armstrong were hired specifically as relief presenters, the Mail seems to miss the fact that Zeinab Badawi is a key presenter on WN including regular stints reporting and presenting the continuity of 'Reporters'.
Interesting to hear Julia Somerville will be joining the Saturday bulletins, but she's already presented BBC Breakfast. Also does 'A BBC spokesman said: ‘We have a range of presenters, including Fiona Armstrong, Julia Somerville and Zeinab Badawi who regularly appear on the BBC News Channel', in addition to the Mail's claim about Carole Walker's criticism, suggest she's been dropped as a relief presenter? It would be a shame if she has, but I haven't seen her presenting in a while.
It's also worth remembering that, unlike Julia Somerville and Fiona Armstrong were hired specifically as relief presenters, the Mail seems to miss the fact that Zeinab Badawi is a key presenter on WN including regular stints reporting and presenting the continuity of 'Reporters'.