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That would make sense considering it's usually the morning presenter (Gavin) who does Dateline during that shift. Makes me think the rota change was for Gavin's convenience rather than the separate Dateline shift having been absorbed into the morning shift as otherwise you'd have expected Nicholas Owen to do it, or for Maxine to have done the morning shift?
Surprising really that if you go back to about 2007 Gavin Esler had almost nothing to do with News 24 anymore (even Dateline was a World production wasn't it?) and has slowly become more closely aligned with it until now all of his regular BBC work, as far as I can tell, is Friday-Sunday on the NC. Quite a demotion compared to being one of 3 or 4 Newsnight presenters, and Chief Presenter of N24 before that? I wonder why he fell from grace with BBC producers when the likes of Martha Kearney and Jeremy Vine moved on to even greater positions from Newsnight? There must surely have been plenty of opportunities to move Gavin to radio (Radio 4 in particular), BBC One or even BBC World News and him remain a higher-profile presenter?
The apparent demotion of Ben Brown has also notable, though Simon McCoy on afternoons with Jane/Emily/Rebecca has made that slot watchable again for the first time since Jon Sopel left. I'm surprised Ben isn't given more BBC 1 slots though if he's lost any regular slot on the NC, when you consider Simon and Jane appear fairly often now and more recently Clive Myrie. And if Ben isn't viewed particularly highly as a presenter by the current crop of editors, I'm surprised he hasn't moved back to reporting which he's arguably better suited to.
A fair few presenters (Ben, Annita McVeigh and Sophie Long for example) appear only sporadically now. Unless their pay has been cut accordingly, it makes you wonder what the point of the longer shifts and fewer presenters is? Combining Dateline London and the News Channel Shift makes sense in terms of economics I guess, given that Chris Eakin left anyway...
Maxine did Dateline yesterday (think it is first shown at 11.30am) and I don't remember her re-appearing after Clive. Maybe, heaven forbid, they let her go home early...
That would make sense considering it's usually the morning presenter (Gavin) who does Dateline during that shift. Makes me think the rota change was for Gavin's convenience rather than the separate Dateline shift having been absorbed into the morning shift as otherwise you'd have expected Nicholas Owen to do it, or for Maxine to have done the morning shift?
Surprising really that if you go back to about 2007 Gavin Esler had almost nothing to do with News 24 anymore (even Dateline was a World production wasn't it?) and has slowly become more closely aligned with it until now all of his regular BBC work, as far as I can tell, is Friday-Sunday on the NC. Quite a demotion compared to being one of 3 or 4 Newsnight presenters, and Chief Presenter of N24 before that? I wonder why he fell from grace with BBC producers when the likes of Martha Kearney and Jeremy Vine moved on to even greater positions from Newsnight? There must surely have been plenty of opportunities to move Gavin to radio (Radio 4 in particular), BBC One or even BBC World News and him remain a higher-profile presenter?
The apparent demotion of Ben Brown has also notable, though Simon McCoy on afternoons with Jane/Emily/Rebecca has made that slot watchable again for the first time since Jon Sopel left. I'm surprised Ben isn't given more BBC 1 slots though if he's lost any regular slot on the NC, when you consider Simon and Jane appear fairly often now and more recently Clive Myrie. And if Ben isn't viewed particularly highly as a presenter by the current crop of editors, I'm surprised he hasn't moved back to reporting which he's arguably better suited to.
A fair few presenters (Ben, Annita McVeigh and Sophie Long for example) appear only sporadically now. Unless their pay has been cut accordingly, it makes you wonder what the point of the longer shifts and fewer presenters is? Combining Dateline London and the News Channel Shift makes sense in terms of economics I guess, given that Chris Eakin left anyway...