BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Here in the East, Shaun Peel did his own announcement.

Here in the East Midlands it was "This is BBC One in the East Midlands, with the latest BBC News".

Wow! That's old school!

Surely in an organisation the size of the BBC if there really is nobody else in Bristol who can record the anno they could arrange a swap with another region to do each other's?

On holiday in BBC SE land. Here network CA over a local ident, ( and a dissolve out of the local headline opt, don’t get that in BBC South land)

We had CA from Glasgow going into the 10.

Network CA in Yorkshire as well.

Glasgow (and Belfast and Cardiff) have live announcers, so it would have been a surprise *not* to have a bespoke announcement.

English regions play a pre recorded announcement, so it can be interesting when there is an unforeseen combination of presenters that they don't have anything prepared for.

Tina presenting the Ten isn't a complete surprise though and was known this morning as it was mentioned on Radio 2 Breakfast. That said for the East if Shaun presented then that is unusual.

Is Katherine Nash still the voice of some of the East announcements or have they been pre-recorded?

Or even get the duty London, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast announcers to record a few each.

Yes anyone with a half decent voice can do it. But they might well have only noticed in the evening that it was needed and therefore only a handful of people there.

At least he didn't introduce himself and then appear straight away as the regions did in the 80s

That's really over complicating things. As I say all it needs is for the region to get a presenter or reporter, or even a member of production staff with a half decent voice into an edit suite and talk into a mic. Not difficult


When I worked in regional news they did that a lot and it sounded fine, the problem was the script. The editor of a regional documentary one-off wrote and voiced the continuity anno once (I think she insisted on it!) not only did she not have a great voice but it went on for ages. She also started it 'now on 1....' which hadn't been heard for many years by then

Did the BBC run out of newsreaders to contact?

Shaun Peel stands in more often of late these days. On the relaxed Look East Late with his open shirt and gelled back hair.
Katherine Nash has long gone to Channel 5.