BBC NEWS CUTS

Nearly 25 years! I cannot imagine Look East without them at the helm.

As abhorrent as I think these cuts are to regional services, may I just point out that regarding the North West Tonight debate, the programme was a single presenter format for many, many years before Ranvir Singh joined Gordon Burns in 2007. During my formative years, it was presented alone by the likes of Philip Hayton, Martin Henfield, Merryn Myatt and then Gordon Burns. Dianne Oxberry used to be brought in again towards the end of the programme for a quick cosy chat before handing back to London.

Everyone getting steamed up online about it going back to a single presenter should remember it worked fine for donkey's years. Granted, it's sad for the incumbent presenters and I don't think regional services should necessarily be cut so much, but it won't be the end of the world for NWT. Two presenters are a luxury when times are good.

The blog order order has an article apparently off the back of a BBC worker regarding voice-over announcers for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. There are eight all reading the same thing and how it is a waste of money.

One, that's a right wing site with a known anti-BBC bias.

Two, other than regional news, the national continuity announcers are the best thing they do on the main channels. I would say, it's a shame that the english regions don't have seperate continuity announcers for the evening shift, but the bean counters at the BBC put paid to that back in 1980, and it isn't likely to come back. It's one thing that connects the audience to the main BBC channels in a better way than having just one national continuity announcer for the UK as a whole.

By that token, Global are wasting money having multiple feeds for all their local transmitters, when they could spend far less and just have one feed go out nationwide on all their Heart branded stations. But, of course, the right would argue that Global should do that if they want to, but the BBC shouldn't be allowed to. The hypocrisy of their whole argument just bores me.

That sounds like a very simplistic point of view and I’m sure if we used their logic the BBC would still have sets and idents from the 1960s. The different voices are there because the corporation believes rightly or wrongly that viewers in the nations want something a bit more representative of the country they live in.

If its a waste of money, you could argue having one live announcer is a waste of money when you could get Alexa to do all the announcements.

The right wing media is always over simplifying things like this to cause outrage, whilst ignoring the fact the cost of doing it this way is probably a drop in the option compared to overall costs of running the thing.

I don't get how they get to 8 reading the same thing - there are only 4 at most and I believe from comments here over the years they do far more than just continuity on the hour.

I assume they’re adding up BBC One and Two.

Exactly - and not many welcomed Ranvir at the time upsetting the balance of the show.

It all depends on the talent too - some can carry a show solo rather effortlessly whilst others shine more in a co-hosting role.

What baffles me is I wonder how much BBC South pay for Sally Taylor. She only does the 6:30 show Mon-Friday meaning they have a presenter in to do breakfast and 1:30 and then a 3rd presenter in to do just the late news. Luckily some savings as the weather on breakfast/1:30 is shared with Spotlight

It will be no less than £4.36 a day.

She's a top drawer presenter

Don't get me wrong, you are right I don't criticise her at all. Just cant be efficient money wise having to pay for 3 presenters a day, however the pay does work.