BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

The lady is Jackie Hardgrave. I can't remember the gentleman's name.

Does anybody else struggle with David Bond?

I find him so awkward in his reports, and only marginally better when in the studio.

That said compared to his predecessor he is like Clare Balding to Otis Deeley....

Personally I loved Mihir Bose. I thought he was fantastic but underused. David Bond is quite good but I think he is 'wodden' and lacking a sense of passion, which is especially required for stories such as the Olympic games. I wouldn't go as far as to say he's the male Orla Guerin but you catch my drift!

BBC studios you wouldn't expect to see Nicholas 'that awful man' Witchell in: Singapore. (He's being interviewed by Rico Hirzon about Will & Kate's visit there.)

Rebecca Pike from Radio 2 presenting the business news on the News Channel this morning. I think I'm right in saying she had a brief spell as an overnight World/NC presenter a couple of years ago.

Yep! In the same era as Rachael Hodges doing overnights too.

A Google search said around April 2011. Where has the time gone?!

Noticed this morning that Weir and Peacock were interviewed, sat outside the new News entrance to BH looking most uncomfortable on a chilly morning .....

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13-Sep-2012 @ 12:16

I don't know if this has been mentioned but former BBC Newsreader Alastair Yates is now reading the news for Global Radio stations, LBC and Classic FM. I miss Big Al on BBC News!

For reasons we couldn't quite work out, they sent a satellite truck down there for that interview. There was another one at BH doing the Chris Moyles show from the Radio Theatre. Anyone would think it wasn't the best-connected building in central London...

Nope- Jackie Hardgrave presented the daytime weekday 0900-1200 shift with Ben Geoghegan.

The two featured presenters on that clip are Jackie Rowley (who left the BBC and was pres secretary to Charles Kennedy when he was leader of the Lib Dems ISTR) and Steve McCormack who left the BBC to go into teaching (Maths I believe), and now appears to be working as an education journalist part-time as well as continuing to teach?

Except that it's almost always easier to do quick lives from an SNG truck - rather than faffing with wallboxes. (The exception being the well set-up London inject points with the rucksack kits)

Also - trucks are bookable, always available, and deployable without having to sort anything 'special' (apart possibly from parking) Sorting a local inject is usually a 'non standard' exercise - unless W1 now has some standard kits that let you handle clean-feed etc. quickly and easily.

IME lives from TVC done with an SNG truck were usually straightforward and hassle-free, lives from inject boxes were a nightmare (and often didn't happen) Though at TVC AIUI there is a neat Rad Cam solution working into East Tower? (And in Central London the Bike?)

I thought David Bond was, initially, an improvement. However I don't think he covered himself with glory during the Olympics - particularly with the Mark Cavendish interview, and I don't think he quite got the 'tone' of his reports right.