BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Worth noting that Talking Business now has four presenters as the show now comes from one of four bureaus.

Tanya Beckett from Broadcasting House, London
Michelle Fleury in New York
Yogita Limaye in Mumbai.
Lerato Mbele in Johannesburg.

Bar Lerato, the other three presenters have hosted Talking Business with Yogita doing her stint on location, while Michelle did hers from the New York newsroom.

Are people on holiday? or has there been a change in who presenting where on the weekends?, since the changes a few weeks ago? I dont know if this will cross the line of "No general daily presenter discussion (e.g. "who presented at 3pm yesterday?")"

The presenter on weekends sort of varies now. The three shifts used to be Martine Dennis in the morning, David Eades in the afternoon and Peter Dobbie in the evening.


Martine since had left, and Alice Baxter seemed to take her spot but has seemed to be back more frequently on the business desk now. David sometimes presents GMT covering for George's absence as well as also doing the weekday morning shift in rotation with Geeta since Nik Gowing left. Peter Dobbie seemed to be away a lot since the report came out that the BBC is a toxic waste pit, but he now seems to be back more frequent since the launch of weekends World News Today.

Is Maxine Mawhinney and Nicholas Owen still around?

Maxine Mawhinney is, not sure about Nicholas, hasn't been presenting for a few months and Gavin Esler has been in his place since.

I wonder if Nicholas has retired or just a relief presenter now, He used to turn up all over the place, including live at five and news at ten.

And right on cue, he's on this afternoon Covering Maxine's shift.

I notice he took over at 2pm instead of 1pm, is that because there changed rotas or is this for holiday cover?

Changed rotas- the slot is now 2-7

Sunday is now
9-2
2-7
7-midnight?

I take it this has plenty been done because of the amount programmes being slotted in at 30 mins past each hour?

Same as Saturday except coverage starts at 10am

Has Katty Kay moved to London?