Roger Johnson doing the news on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 this morning - this has to be a first either for Roger or indeed a male newscaster!!
The 'female-only' Andrew Marr news updates have only been so since the move to Salford IIRC - since there is no available news presenter at NBH, the female presenter from Breakfast leaves the programme a little early to do the Marr news updates. I think this is indeed the first time the male presenter has done it instead, though I think John Acres, one of the Sport presenters covered it at some point recently - I don't recall why.
Also, the lighting looked a bit off in the studio they use for the news update - Roger looked like a ghost!
To be fair that's a long time back. Bill moved off weekends in 2007, eight years ago!
And I did say the Andrew Marr Show.
It certainly has not been a common practice at all in recent times.
No - not common at all.
Moira Stuart used to do it when Sunday AM/The Andrew Marr Show had a dedicated newsreader, then it was usually Susanna Reid or Louise Minchin when one of the two Sunday Breakfast presenters used to do it.
Not the first time for a male; the sports guy did it before the summer when the programme started at 8.30am.
Pretty sure Christian Fraser also did it one week but I might be wrong - might have been another male but today definitely wasn't the first
What a rediculous comment.
Filler?
Do you really think BBC One would not ache to have that 90 seconds of marketing in prime time back?
It's there for a real reason, to reach a different and big audience that don't routinely come to BBC News.
It works, it does its job.
It's been unchanged since it launched because it knows its market and continues to do its job well.
It's not going anywhere.
So well they might have to shut their news channel down. The young audience is better served by the website, 60 Seconds (while it lasts) and Newsbeat. The older audience is better served by the main bulletins and (until recently anyway) the news channel. Neither audience needs to be insulted by having the bulletin fronted by a young female face making their only BBC1 appearance of the day (not sure they even appear on the news channel).
I have no objection to news updates in primetime (and daytime) but they don't need to patronise the audience.
What a rediculous comment.
Filler?
Do you really think BBC One would not ache to have that 90 seconds of marketing in prime time back?
It's there for a real reason, to reach a different and big audience that don't routinely come to BBC News.
It works, it does its job.
It's been unchanged since it launched because it knows its market and continues to do its job well.
It's not going anywhere.
So well they might have to shut their news channel down. The young audience is better served by the website, 60 Seconds (while it lasts) and Newsbeat. The older audience is better served by the main bulletins and (until recently anyway) the news channel. Neither audience needs to be insulted by having the bulletin fronted by a young female face making their only BBC1 appearance of the day (not sure they even appear on the news channel).
I have no objection to news updates in primetime (and daytime) but they don't need to patronise the audience.
With 60 Seconds presumably being axed by the new year, surely that strengthens the need for a youth skewed news bulletin in prime time on BBC One?
What a rediculous comment.
Filler?
Do you really think BBC One would not ache to have that 90 seconds of marketing in prime time back?
It's there for a real reason, to reach a different and big audience that don't routinely come to BBC News.
It works, it does its job.
It's been unchanged since it launched because it knows its market and continues to do its job well.
It's not going anywhere.
So well they might have to shut their news channel down. The young audience is better served by the website, 60 Seconds (while it lasts) and Newsbeat. The older audience is better served by the main bulletins and (until recently anyway) the news channel. Neither audience needs to be insulted by having the bulletin fronted by a young female face making their only BBC1 appearance of the day (not sure they even appear on the news channel).
I have no objection to news updates in primetime (and daytime) but they don't need to patronise the audience.
With 60 Seconds presumably being axed by the new year, surely that strengthens the need for a youth skewed news bulletin in prime time on BBC One?
And where does the 8 patronise the viewer?
I certainly wouldn't call the 90 second update patronising either - it's presented in a different way but the scripts are in a standard BBC News style.
As for serving the youth audience better with the loss of 60 seconds, could they perhaps try and do this by extending Newsbeat in some way? In the past there were hourly updates throughout the night and bulletins certainly later than 3:30pm on the weekends - considering that 4-7pm on a Sunday is now presented by a CBBC presenter and is supposed to 'showcase the best of CBBC and Radio 1', it would seem an ideal location to reintroduce hourly updates?
I certainly wouldn't call the 90 second update patronising either - it's presented in a different way but the scripts are in a standard BBC News style.
As for serving the youth audience better with the loss of 60 seconds, could they perhaps try and do this by extending Newsbeat in some way? In the past there were hourly updates throughout the night and bulletins certainly later than 3:30pm on the weekends - considering that 4-7pm on a Sunday is now presented by a CBBC presenter and is supposed to 'showcase the best of CBBC and Radio 1', it would seem an ideal location to reintroduce hourly updates?
I do find the choice of presenter pandering to something the BBC shouldn't be pandering too and just don't like the way they're presented to be honest.
I agree they should make more of Newsbeat and always thought they should have used it as the BBC3 brand so the service is on radio in the day, TV at night. I don't agree Newsbeat would fit in the CBBC slot on Sundays that well, but they should certainly have an update at 7.30pm at least.
Newsbeat has faced cuts like every other department, there used to be bulletins from 4:30am, plus of course they are all simulcast with 1xtra except at Breakfast, although that's probably sensible. No reason to not have bulletins later in the afternoon to match Saturday's now though.
A typical example of the BBC cutting what makes it unique and keeping what doesn't. No other contemporary music radio station provides decent news bulletins. "The headlines from Global's newsroom" are usually about 3 seconds long half of which is showbiz gossip.