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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

(April 2008)

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HO
House
Gavin Grey on tonight at 01:00.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Martine Croxall's appearances on BBC World are quite rare these days, but always welcome!
CH
chris_rgu
Just relating to a few posts ago, why does the female presenter not do the first hour of Breakfast on a Saturday? Doesn't this happen in a similar guise on Sunday?

Yes. Gavin Grey on BBC News overnights!!!


They take the first hour week about - one week the male presenter will do and then the other female will do.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Martine Croxall with today's middle shift on BBC World again. Hope this is a permanent arrangement for weekends?
AC
aconnell
Just relating to a few posts ago, why does the female presenter not do the first hour of Breakfast on a Saturday? Doesn't this happen in a similar guise on Sunday?

Yes. Gavin Grey on BBC News overnights!!!


They take the first hour week about - one week the male presenter will do and then the other female will do.


Why do they do this? Is it something to do with World or staffing costs, at a guess?

Riz Lateef doing summary on Andrew Marr - in early to do Sunday bulletins?
AP
aprilj
Jo Coburn and Andrew Neil are presenting today's Politics Show
HO
House
Jo Coburn and Andrew Neil are presenting today's Politics Show


There was talk of Andrew Neil potentially taking over The Politics Show. Interesting he was partnered with Jo Coburn, his new permanent DP partner. If they were to take over (let's assume today was a test), I wonder where that leaves Jon.
NJ
news junkie
House posted:
Jo Coburn and Andrew Neil are presenting today's Politics Show


There was talk of Andrew Neil potentially taking over The Politics Show. Interesting he was partnered with Jo Coburn, his new permanent DP partner. If they were to take over (let's assume today was a test), I wonder where that leaves Jon.


In N6 for his weekday afternoon shifts on NC with Maitlis and Minchin?
SN
The SNT Three
Not wanting to get too far into rota-talk, but the BBC reaaaally is all over the place as far as their presenting rotas go. Presenters almost never seem to appear for a whole week/two weeks at best in their slots - I know it's summer recently so it's to be expected, but it's a problem outside of these times too.

Some slots are fine - Simon and Carrie in the mornings seems to be a regular thing, but the other shifts, particularly on weekends are all over the place. And on Newsnight, I fail to see how a weekday only programme can have four presenters (Gavin, Jeremy, Emily, Kirsty) and still require stand ins (Jon Sopel, Mishal Husain, Laura Keunnsburg in the past...)

I think perhaps they need to have a sort out - I know the rotas can't always work perfectly but at the moment it just stinks of inconsistency.
GI
ginnyfan
What was the situation regarding this in the past? I mean in 90s and 80s, of course there was no news channel but they had much more national news updates and bulletins. Were presenters then more fixed and regular then now?
CH
chris_rgu
Just relating to a few posts ago, why does the female presenter not do the first hour of Breakfast on a Saturday? Doesn't this happen in a similar guise on Sunday?

Yes. Gavin Grey on BBC News overnights!!!


They take the first hour week about - one week the male presenter will do and then the other female will do.


Why do they do this? Is it something to do with World or staffing costs, at a guess?

Riz Lateef doing summary on Andrew Marr - in early to do Sunday bulletins?


Nope - Riz seems to always do the Andrew Marr Show when the show is put back to 8.30am or later during the day.
DS
Dan S
Not wanting to get too far into rota-talk, but the BBC reaaaally is all over the place as far as their presenting rotas go. Presenters almost never seem to appear for a whole week/two weeks at best in their slots - I know it's summer recently so it's to be expected, but it's a problem outside of these times too.

Some slots are fine - Simon and Carrie in the mornings seems to be a regular thing, but the other shifts, particularly on weekends are all over the place. And on Newsnight, I fail to see how a weekday only programme can have four presenters (Gavin, Jeremy, Emily, Kirsty) and still require stand ins (Jon Sopel, Mishal Husain, Laura Keunnsburg in the past...)

I think perhaps they need to have a sort out - I know the rotas can't always work perfectly but at the moment it just stinks of inconsistency.


I agree - just out of curiosity, when was the last time BBC News (including the News Channel, Breakfast, One, Six, Ten, Newsnight and the 8pm summary), just for one day, had all of its presenters on their official programme, and in their 'official' slots?

And it is a mess on the News Channel in terms of presenters at weekends, particularly when Maxine's absent.

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