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Then you're back to the situation you had in the seventies when the various bulletins didn't have specific presenters but just whoever was on duty that day. That stopped in the eighties when they wanted to give the bulletins specific identities, and that's still the case today. They may be made by the same team but they still emphasise their differences by specifically mentioning the name of the bulletin and having their own running orders and with the Six concentrating on domestic stories and the Ten on internatonal stories. And part of the way they do that is by having their own presenters.
I know Fiona does both on a Friday, but that's a Friday which is a bit different and there's less news around. And of course many of the newsreaders have done both, but clearly the Beeb think the programmes are different enough to have different presenters on the vast majority of occasions. They certainly see them as more of a programme than as a bog-standard half hour of rolling news, with the presenters playing a major role in the make-up of the show, and maybe they consider nobody can do both for any great length of time without the quality dropping.
Same as ITV, they had Mark Austin doing both for a bit but then decided to have different presenters doing the 6.30 and the 10pm bulletins, as they used to. Clearly they felt it wasn't working, either Austin was knackered or didn't feel it made News at Ten appear significantly like the flagship bulletin.
George has presented both Six and Ten all this week. What is stopping the BBC from having one presenter for both the Six and Ten? Apart from George's commitment to GMT (which I assume he hasn't presented this week) and Huw's News at Five on BBC News Channel. Surely it would be cheaper and unlike the 1980s & 90s both are produced by same team so would make sense.
Then you're back to the situation you had in the seventies when the various bulletins didn't have specific presenters but just whoever was on duty that day. That stopped in the eighties when they wanted to give the bulletins specific identities, and that's still the case today. They may be made by the same team but they still emphasise their differences by specifically mentioning the name of the bulletin and having their own running orders and with the Six concentrating on domestic stories and the Ten on internatonal stories. And part of the way they do that is by having their own presenters.
I know Fiona does both on a Friday, but that's a Friday which is a bit different and there's less news around. And of course many of the newsreaders have done both, but clearly the Beeb think the programmes are different enough to have different presenters on the vast majority of occasions. They certainly see them as more of a programme than as a bog-standard half hour of rolling news, with the presenters playing a major role in the make-up of the show, and maybe they consider nobody can do both for any great length of time without the quality dropping.
Same as ITV, they had Mark Austin doing both for a bit but then decided to have different presenters doing the 6.30 and the 10pm bulletins, as they used to. Clearly they felt it wasn't working, either Austin was knackered or didn't feel it made News at Ten appear significantly like the flagship bulletin.