BBC News | Presenter & Correspondent Reshuffles

News channels main faces is presumably Joanna, Annita, Simon, Jane, Maxine, Clive and Martine by your definition in which case it's both rather than all the male presenters being over 50.

I had also considered Victoria Derbyshire (under 50), Huw, George and Gavin (all over 50) but you have a point that there are fewer male presenters to choose from. And of course Gavin has literally just finished up at the BBC. Do we know who will take his slot?

And now it's time for the final Film Review from @gavinesler on @BBCNews with @KermodeMovie. Gavin's movie baton passes to @JaneHillNews pic.twitter.com/UtbFS3vDpc

— Sam Taylor (@samtaylornews) March 31, 2017

EDIT: IPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08l5tfg/the-film-review-31032017

Nice montage.

I love the way they used a graphic over his first appearance on BBC News 24 and say 'News channel launch presenter'. That's not quite true, he was BBC News 24's launch presenter in 1997, technically Simon McCoy and Carrie Gracie were the News channel's launch presenters after the 2008 rebrand. It's like they try and skew history and write-out the News 24 name as if it never existed.

Reminds me, BBC News 24/News 24/BBC News/BBC News channel/The News Channel will be 20 years old this year.

News 24 was/is a news channel so nothing wrong with that graphic. They can hardly skew history while playing a clip which includes the logo and in which he says the name of the channel.

Interestingly (or perhaps not), CNN also branded itself as The News Channel in the early '80s:

Probably because it was THE news channel...... anywhere.

I still think of it as News 24, (even though it feels like News 6 and a bit these days)

The BBC News Channel (the term used to refer to the channel to distinguish it from BBC News in general) has existed since November 1997 - it's just that it was known as BBC News 24 until 2008, when the number 24 was dropped from the channel's official name, which is now "BBC News". Therefore, there is no attempt to skew the history of the channel on the BBC's part.

Sorry to derail this thread but this reminds me of a forum I used to look at about fifteen years ago (might have been a newsgroup actually) where someone always referred to News 24 as News 21 because they were insistent Breakfast was not proper news and should not have been on the channel, which should have been news and absolutely nothing but, and every time someone asked them why they called it News 21, they would always rant about Breakfast at great length. And whenever people asked them where Hardtalk and Talking Movies fitted into all this, they never replied.

I wonder what they make of the channel now.

I vaguely remember that, too, Steve. It may well have been TV Forum!

There was a chap on Usenet ( uk.tech digital and uk.tv.misc mainly) , Simon Gardner, ? It was him, he might have posted in here too ?

Edit: Here we go, from 2003. You'll never find a record of a direct quote from him, because he set the Archive flag in his header to 'No' and Google honour that, but what you can see are other posters' quoting of what he said, and their response, such as here :-

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/uk.tech.digital-tv/news$2021$20gardner%7Csort:relevance/uk.tech.digital-tv/Oj3mSB4uWAc/uvwtZnNEB3MJ

He posted thousands and thousands of contributions on Usenet in the early 00s