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Martin Stanford, a former newsreader for Sky News, is presenting on BBC World News on the 2-5am shift. Never ever seen him before on the channel.
GE
thegeek
Founding member
Does look like it might have been his first .
Hello World.... Hello @BBCWorld and @BBCNews ! Join me on a screen near you from 0200... with the latest on North Korea’s latest request for talks with @realDonaldTrump ... we track Hurricane Florence bound for the Carolinas ... and all the news as it breaks
— Martin Stanford (@martinstanford) September 10, 2018
JW
Hear Hear!
And if necessary, I'll give you a list of three presenters to take away altogether, just so Martin can stay.
And if necessary, I'll give you a list of three presenters to take away altogether, just so Martin can stay.
LL
London Lite
Founding member
Get Martin on Newsroom Live or Afternoon Live. Both formats would suit him.
GI
It's absolutely necessary!
Hear Hear!
And if necessary, I'll give you a list of three presenters to take away altogether, just so Martin can stay.
And if necessary, I'll give you a list of three presenters to take away altogether, just so Martin can stay.
It's absolutely necessary!
JW
It's absolutely necessary!
Oh, where to start. Where to start? And three was maybe an underestimation........
Hear Hear!
And if necessary, I'll give you a list of three presenters to take away altogether, just so Martin can stay.
And if necessary, I'll give you a list of three presenters to take away altogether, just so Martin can stay.
It's absolutely necessary!
Oh, where to start. Where to start? And three was maybe an underestimation........
RN
Here he is reviewing the big stories on a show called Insight on TRT last year with Maxine Mawhinney. Literally two legends sat facing each other:
BF
Great to see Martin making an appearance on BBC World.
Do have to say though towards the end of his time on Sky I do think others had deservedly moved ahead of him in the pecking order and IMO his presenters seem less lively/enthused than in the 90s and noughties when he really was fantastic on Sky News Today and SkyNews.com . The likes of Lorna Dunkley, Samantha Simmonds and Andrew Wilson were bigger losses IMO (and I'm not surprised the first two have been snapped up by news channels since)
World could certainly do with a presenter like him though - whenever I hear about World there seem to be newbies popping up out of nowhere(particularly at weekends) and who because they're inexperienced lack the gravitas BBC World presenters have been known for over the years.
World still has some fantastic and experienced newscasters - Eades, Bundock, Hockings, Giannone, Thomas, Amroliwala, Guru-Murthy, the above-mentioned Samantha Simmonds etc. - but another experienced hand is never a bad thing.
Wow, great and unexpected news. One of Sky's finest that they neglected for years and finally dropped while inexperienced newbies were taking over.
Hope he's permanently at World now!
Hope he's permanently at World now!
Great to see Martin making an appearance on BBC World.
Do have to say though towards the end of his time on Sky I do think others had deservedly moved ahead of him in the pecking order and IMO his presenters seem less lively/enthused than in the 90s and noughties when he really was fantastic on Sky News Today and SkyNews.com . The likes of Lorna Dunkley, Samantha Simmonds and Andrew Wilson were bigger losses IMO (and I'm not surprised the first two have been snapped up by news channels since)
World could certainly do with a presenter like him though - whenever I hear about World there seem to be newbies popping up out of nowhere(particularly at weekends) and who because they're inexperienced lack the gravitas BBC World presenters have been known for over the years.
World still has some fantastic and experienced newscasters - Eades, Bundock, Hockings, Giannone, Thomas, Amroliwala, Guru-Murthy, the above-mentioned Samantha Simmonds etc. - but another experienced hand is never a bad thing.
SS
Mishal Hussain presenting the News at 6 today, which is very unusual. We normally only see her presenting network bulletins for BBC One on the weekend.