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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

(April 2008)

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JW
JamesWorldNews
Tim. World. 8am shift.
JW
JamesWorldNews
And, by all accounts, Sport Today and various other bulletins from Salford will be presented by Elizabeth Windsor today.
GI
ginnyfan
Sally Bundock (news) and Tanya Beckett (business) co-presenting BBC World News this morning. Perhaps it would better with Tanya on the news segment?


That's strange. Shocked
JA
Jaxford
Sally Bundock (news) and Tanya Beckett (business) co-presenting BBC World News this morning. Perhaps it would better with Tanya on the news segment?


That's strange. Shocked


I think Sally presenting the news segment is great. They could both do a good job, Sally was just the one who was chosen. Razz
JW
JamesWorldNews
It was rostered some time back and totally planned. Sally is good with the news as well.
DS
Dan S
Dan S posted:
Julian and Sue could very well be on tomorrow afternoon as well.


They make a good pairing. Infact I have a name for it: Suelian.


No Suelian this afternoon. Instead at 2pm we have Julie (Julian and Sophie Long).
DS
Dan S
Coming up at 7: Clive Myrie and Sue Thearle.
SR
SomeRandomStuff
Dan S posted:
Dan S posted:
Julian and Sue could very well be on tomorrow afternoon as well.


They make a good pairing. Infact I have a name for it: Suelian.


No Suelian this afternoon. Instead at 2pm we have Julie (Julian and Sophie Long).


...followed by Bennifer, Brangelina, Billary Clinton and Jedward.
JD
JD 157
Wow, Tim was quick looking through the papers with Fiona. He almost never stopped for a breath. Another long day for him! Very Happy
SR
SomeRandomStuff
Wow, Tim was quick looking through the papers with Fiona. He almost never stopped for a breath. Another long day for him! Very Happy

Yes he always does that... i'm guessing he sees the pointless stupidity of the thing... on many occasions when Tim has been presenting they have skipped the handover altogether and just gone to an ident. Which IMHO is far better.
BA
bilky asko
Wow, Tim was quick looking through the papers with Fiona. He almost never stopped for a breath. Another long day for him! Very Happy

Yes he always does that... i'm guessing he sees the pointless stupidity of the thing... on many occasions when Tim has been presenting they have skipped the handover altogether and just gone to an ident. Which IMHO is far better.


I think a minute of two of comment on the papers by the previous presenter with the upcoming one is much better than the robotic hand-overs eked out by some presenters, especially considering the change of pace and register. Pretending the other person isn't there is rather annoying.
SR
SomeRandomStuff
Wow, Tim was quick looking through the papers with Fiona. He almost never stopped for a breath. Another long day for him! Very Happy

Yes he always does that... i'm guessing he sees the pointless stupidity of the thing... on many occasions when Tim has been presenting they have skipped the handover altogether and just gone to an ident. Which IMHO is far better.


I think a minute of two of comment on the papers by the previous presenter with the upcoming one is much better than the robotic hand-overs eked out by some presenters, especially considering the change of pace and register. Pretending the other person isn't there is rather annoying.

I think we're in the wrong thread to start debating this.

Its blatently obvious that they only do it to kill time before the weather and the Headlines at 1030. Its ridiculous stupid lazy time wasting filler for no good reason. It adds nothing to the channel because they only gloss over the papers briefly and then say "oh well you've got to wait half an hour before we do this properly".

If they are going to do a handover it would be infinitely better to hand over to Sportsday immediately following the 10 then Weather (slightly late), News Summary, Business, Paper Review. Yes it wouldn't adhere to the "Headlines every 15 minutes" rule, but I don't see that is a problem, and I don't think Tim Willcox does either. Especially after the really long chunks of ROTA he does. (see what I did there)

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