It seems Jane Hill is no longer with the bbc. I emailed her bbc email address and received a response saying email has been rejected as email address no longer exists!
If that were the case, why is she still featured on the TOTH countdowns? The BBC are normally pretty quick at removing presenters/reporters from it post their departure.
Last edited by Worzel on 20 April 2019 8:59am - 2 times in total
It seems Jane Hill is no longer with the bbc. I emailed her bbc email address and received a response saying email has been rejected as email address no longer exists!
Firstly, how do you know it's her address? Firstly it's a common name - I would have thought that there's be at least one other person either at or previously at the BBC with that name. Also I don't think the BBC give on screen talent standard addresses for their personal accounts for obvious reasons.
Secondly isn't it normal practise to automatically disable an account that's not accessed for a certain amount of time?
Also I don't think the BBC give on screen talent standard addresses for their personal accounts for obvious reasons.
They give them email addresses like any other member of staff - if a presenter joins and they are the 3rd Malcolm Smith, it will be Malcolm.3.Smith, or whatever the naming convention is for the organisation. Some companies won't even grant returning employees their old email address, eg Chris Eakin would now be chris.1.eakin etc.
Secondly isn't it normal practise to automatically disable an account that's not accessed for a certain amount of time?
Not particularly, the companies that do this are in the minority (usually goverened by laws or government guidelines because of the industry they operate in). It is however, standard practice to disable accounts for those on long term sickness, sabbatical and maternity leave, so that mailboxes don't fill up and so employees don't feel required to login and check.
They give them email addresses like any other member of staff - if a presenter joins and they are the 3rd Malcolm Smith, it will be Malcolm.3.Smith, or whatever the naming convention is for the organisation. Some companies won't even grant returning employees their old email address, eg Chris Eakin would now be chris.1.eakin etc.
Yes that is the case at the BBC, but there are also 'private' email addresses for some on screen staff. A presenter on a popular radio show might give out dave.doubledecks@bbc.co.uk on air, but will also have another account for his own use. That way he doesn't have to use an email for work which is swamped with emails from the public, and the inevitable nutters don't get through to him directly
They give them email addresses like any other member of staff - if a presenter joins and they are the 3rd Malcolm Smith, it will be Malcolm.3.Smith, or whatever the naming convention is for the organisation. Some companies won't even grant returning employees their old email address, eg Chris Eakin would now be chris.1.eakin etc.
Yes that is the case at the BBC, but there are also 'private' email addresses for some on screen staff. A presenter on a popular radio show might give out dave.doubledecks@bbc.co.uk on air, but will also have another account for his own use. That way he doesn't have to use an email for work which is swamped with emails from the public, and the inevitable nutters don't get through to him directly
That's correct. There are generally two types of email accounts. One, a personal Name.Surname@bbc.co.uk one. Two, a 'resource' account. These are typically used in on-air situations such as HaveYourSay@ but can also include presenter names as well. Local radio has a real mix of these, even throwing in some 'On Air' ones for good mix... Vic.OnAir@...
They give them email addresses like any other member of staff - if a presenter joins and they are the 3rd Malcolm Smith, it will be Malcolm.3.Smith, or whatever the naming convention is for the organisation. Some companies won't even grant returning employees their old email address, eg Chris Eakin would now be chris.1.eakin etc.
Yes that is the case at the BBC, but there are also 'private' email addresses for some on screen staff. A presenter on a popular radio show might give out dave.doubledecks@bbc.co.uk on air, but will also have another account for his own use. That way he doesn't have to use an email for work which is swamped with emails from the public, and the inevitable nutters don't get through to him directly
Aren't most of the addresses given out on radio for the show rather than the presenter in that relief presenters (who are often freelancers who wouldn't have their own BBC address) will continue to use the usual address which clearly makes it unsuitable for the presenter to use for other things that shouldn't be accessible to others.
Indeed, Scott Mills was in for Rylan on Radio 2 the other week but made a point of saying that even though he had his own email address listeners should email to Rylan's instead - obviously if it was Rylan's personal account this password-sharing etc would be a bit of a no go!
There are, however, odd circumstances where the email address given out on-air is for the personal account of a BBC staffer - Greg James' old podcast (before he moved to Breakfast) was co-presented with his newsreader, Chris Smith. They eventually got a proper email address for the podcast but I remember for a good long while they were directing podcast listeners to direct correspondence to 'chris.smith0@bbc.co.uk' (or similar)!
Aren't most of the addresses given out on radio for the show rather than the presenter in that relief presenters (who are often freelancers who wouldn't have their own BBC address) will continue to use the usual address which clearly makes it unsuitable for the presenter to use for other things that shouldn't be accessible to others.
That's another reason for having show email accounts and having the presenters personal accounts seperate. Members of the production team and fill in presenters can't see the presenter's personal correspondence
Reminds me of Danny Baker's email addresses, both neither the name of the show or the presenter. His 5 Live show is lord.reith@bbc.co.uk When he was on BBC London it was margaret.rutherford@bbc.co.uk
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 21 April 2019 7:15am