BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

I think I may be wrong about Huw Edwards never presenting when there is news about himself. We have just had the apparently breaking news about the BBC putting a pay cap on the salaries of its highest-paid news presenters and Huw Edwards mentioned it using the phrase "some of its presenters". A phrase which I take to include... Huw Edwards. Amol Rajan was on, although he didn't mention Huw Edwards by name when talking to Huw - however he did mention Huw Edwards (and others) when talking to Matthew Price on the News Channel later.

Carrie Gracie was due back on the Channel tomorrow, but whether she will now appear given the breaking news that will almost inevitably run into tomorrow... The BBC is due to give a news briefing at 10am, during VD, which could be interesting if Carrie was presenting at eleven (or indeed during VD itself). As it will be news all day, it may mean she never debuts tomorrow at all. In which case, I will be interested by her absence lol! Otherwise, on Wednesday, we could have Carrie Gracie around the middle of the day, presenting the news, and then Simon McCoy at 2 introducing Carrie Gracie giving evidence to the parliamentary committee.

As Matthew Price has just suggested, to slight amusement, more news on the BBC about the BBC which looks set to run and run...

No I really do want to see it, just for the "fun" element to it (of the regional announcement prior to the national bulletin); however the BBC will deny that to me because, as pointed out, the shift patterns now make it extremely unlikely. I suppose I was half-joking really - I will give you that.

Given the changes to the BBC News Channel since Carrie went to China it is more than possible Carrie was never due on screen today anyway. Certainly Martine posted that she was shadowing Simon for a day or two before she presented Afternoon Live. I've seen similar for people presenting BBC Breakfast.

THIS IS GETTING SO META: A BBC News presenter reading out comments viewers have sent in about BBC pay live on BBC News. pic.twitter.com/0UzCBLowSb

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) January 30, 2018

One of her many fans on here?

I see with the gender pay gap in the news again, Huw is absent and Sophie is doing the Ten.

Do they really think the viewers at home, most of whom are on significantly lower salaries themselves, give a flying ****?

Who is the young man who has just been presenting on BBC News at the moment? Never seen him before. Presenting from London in between the presenters from Singapore and Washington.

(I doubt anyone will be able to give an answer or this may get no answer as no-one will be here in the middle of the night anyway.)

Andrew Plant

Shouldn't it be Beyond 365 Days now.


The BBC have given far too much airtime to an internal HR issue, especially yesterday when the government covering up the negative impacts of Brexit really should have been dominating the bulletins.

At least they didn't lead the 6 with it...
Would still like to see the huge difference between the pay of a female deputy editor of a national newspaper suppliment and a male newsdesk editor on the same paper.
Far higher margin than the BBC, I would guess.

I don't care if it's a public money vs private business arguement. When the words 'issue for society' are now being thrown around, the public need to know, and not keep attacking the BBC with this particular and frankly, repetitive stick.

Not sure what comparing apples and oranges like that would achieve?

The media love nothing more than reporting on itself but the coverage on this has been far too much about the individual and the organisation and not in the context of the wider world. It also hasn't been covered particularly objectively and the wider implications haven't been discussed, specifically the proposed cap on newsreaders pay which effectively prohibits any woman from earning what the BBC have paid their top newsreaders in recent years.