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CI
Technically isn't Becky a presenter rather than a forecaster?
Forecasters are people like Rob McElwee, Penny Tranter, Philip Avery etc. who have formal Met Office - or other - forecaster training.
The presenters have fewer formal qualifications - and though Met Office trained - don't have the same forecasting skills - formally at least.
Are any of the BBC's weather presenters not forecasters as well?
Yes - Carol Kirkwood and Louise Lear are both Met trained presenters rather than forecasters. Their training is comprehensive when it comes to understanding weather processes and communicating them to the viewer, but they aren't forecasters, so won't also work - potentially - in areas like the Navy, RAF etc.
Many of the BBC regional weather presenters are similar - presenters NOT forecasters. For instance Ivor Moores at Look East was a forecaster, but Julie Reinger is a presenter. (Not sure the Met Office provide all the regional presenters anymore)
Equally, Alex Hill and John Hammond, who used to be ITV National Weather presenters (also provided by the Met Office) were forecasters ISTR - though I'm not sure any of the current ITV team are.
Alex Hill still works for the Met Office and can occasionally be seen on various news reports to do with the weather.
And as for some of the BBC's regional weather presenters, I can tell you that in the South West, David Braine is actually a forecaster too, not just a presenter. He also holds the rank of Commander in the Navy and has been seen in unifrom before now, both in life and on Spotlight.
ITV's regional weather presenters seem to be just that, presenters. Kate Reeves is technically an actress by trade, and Peter Griffin is also a jouornalist and voiceover artist, and can regularly be seen anchoring short bulletins too on Westcountry.
noggin posted:
itsrobert posted:
noggin posted:
Primetime TV posted:
I hope she is ok, she was a decent forecaster..
Technically isn't Becky a presenter rather than a forecaster?
Forecasters are people like Rob McElwee, Penny Tranter, Philip Avery etc. who have formal Met Office - or other - forecaster training.
The presenters have fewer formal qualifications - and though Met Office trained - don't have the same forecasting skills - formally at least.
Are any of the BBC's weather presenters not forecasters as well?
Yes - Carol Kirkwood and Louise Lear are both Met trained presenters rather than forecasters. Their training is comprehensive when it comes to understanding weather processes and communicating them to the viewer, but they aren't forecasters, so won't also work - potentially - in areas like the Navy, RAF etc.
Many of the BBC regional weather presenters are similar - presenters NOT forecasters. For instance Ivor Moores at Look East was a forecaster, but Julie Reinger is a presenter. (Not sure the Met Office provide all the regional presenters anymore)
Equally, Alex Hill and John Hammond, who used to be ITV National Weather presenters (also provided by the Met Office) were forecasters ISTR - though I'm not sure any of the current ITV team are.
Alex Hill still works for the Met Office and can occasionally be seen on various news reports to do with the weather.
And as for some of the BBC's regional weather presenters, I can tell you that in the South West, David Braine is actually a forecaster too, not just a presenter. He also holds the rank of Commander in the Navy and has been seen in unifrom before now, both in life and on Spotlight.
ITV's regional weather presenters seem to be just that, presenters. Kate Reeves is technically an actress by trade, and Peter Griffin is also a jouornalist and voiceover artist, and can regularly be seen anchoring short bulletins too on Westcountry.
JE
Technically isn't Becky a presenter rather than a forecaster?
Forecasters are people like Rob McElwee, Penny Tranter, Philip Avery etc. who have formal Met Office - or other - forecaster training.
The presenters have fewer formal qualifications - and though Met Office trained - don't have the same forecasting skills - formally at least.
Are any of the BBC's weather presenters not forecasters as well?
Yes - Carol Kirkwood and Louise Lear are both Met trained presenters rather than forecasters. Their training is comprehensive when it comes to understanding weather processes and communicating them to the viewer, but they aren't forecasters, so won't also work - potentially - in areas like the Navy, RAF etc.
Many of the BBC regional weather presenters are similar - presenters NOT forecasters. For instance Ivor Moores at Look East was a forecaster, but Julie Reinger is a presenter. (Not sure the Met Office provide all the regional presenters anymore)
Equally, Alex Hill and John Hammond, who used to be ITV National Weather presenters (also provided by the Met Office) were forecasters ISTR - though I'm not sure any of the current ITV team are.
Alex Hill still works for the Met Office and can occasionally be seen on various news reports to do with the weather.
And as for some of the BBC's regional weather presenters, I can tell you that in the South West, David Braine is actually a forecaster too, not just a presenter. He also holds the rank of Commander in the Navy and has been seen in unifrom before now, both in life and on Spotlight.
ITV's regional weather presenters seem to be just that, presenters. Kate Reeves is technically an actress by trade, and Peter Griffin is also a jouornalist and voiceover artist, and can regularly be seen anchoring short bulletins too on Westcountry.
Ruth Wignall on ITV Wales is also a journalist having presented and reported on HTV News and also local programmes for Wales. The other ITV Wales weather presenters seem to be from ITV Central.
Jez
Founding member
cityprod posted:
noggin posted:
itsrobert posted:
noggin posted:
Primetime TV posted:
I hope she is ok, she was a decent forecaster..
Technically isn't Becky a presenter rather than a forecaster?
Forecasters are people like Rob McElwee, Penny Tranter, Philip Avery etc. who have formal Met Office - or other - forecaster training.
The presenters have fewer formal qualifications - and though Met Office trained - don't have the same forecasting skills - formally at least.
Are any of the BBC's weather presenters not forecasters as well?
Yes - Carol Kirkwood and Louise Lear are both Met trained presenters rather than forecasters. Their training is comprehensive when it comes to understanding weather processes and communicating them to the viewer, but they aren't forecasters, so won't also work - potentially - in areas like the Navy, RAF etc.
Many of the BBC regional weather presenters are similar - presenters NOT forecasters. For instance Ivor Moores at Look East was a forecaster, but Julie Reinger is a presenter. (Not sure the Met Office provide all the regional presenters anymore)
Equally, Alex Hill and John Hammond, who used to be ITV National Weather presenters (also provided by the Met Office) were forecasters ISTR - though I'm not sure any of the current ITV team are.
Alex Hill still works for the Met Office and can occasionally be seen on various news reports to do with the weather.
And as for some of the BBC's regional weather presenters, I can tell you that in the South West, David Braine is actually a forecaster too, not just a presenter. He also holds the rank of Commander in the Navy and has been seen in unifrom before now, both in life and on Spotlight.
ITV's regional weather presenters seem to be just that, presenters. Kate Reeves is technically an actress by trade, and Peter Griffin is also a jouornalist and voiceover artist, and can regularly be seen anchoring short bulletins too on Westcountry.
Ruth Wignall on ITV Wales is also a journalist having presented and reported on HTV News and also local programmes for Wales. The other ITV Wales weather presenters seem to be from ITV Central.
TO
Technically isn't Becky a presenter rather than a forecaster?
Forecasters are people like Rob McElwee, Penny Tranter, Philip Avery etc. who have formal Met Office - or other - forecaster training.
The presenters have fewer formal qualifications - and though Met Office trained - don't have the same forecasting skills - formally at least.
Are any of the BBC's weather presenters not forecasters as well?
Yes - Carol Kirkwood and Louise Lear are both Met trained presenters rather than forecasters. Their training is comprehensive when it comes to understanding weather processes and communicating them to the viewer, but they aren't forecasters, so won't also work - potentially - in areas like the Navy, RAF etc.
Many of the BBC regional weather presenters are similar - presenters NOT forecasters. For instance Ivor Moores at Look East was a forecaster, but Julie Reinger is a presenter. (Not sure the Met Office provide all the regional presenters anymore)
Equally, Alex Hill and John Hammond, who used to be ITV National Weather presenters (also provided by the Met Office) were forecasters ISTR - though I'm not sure any of the current ITV team are.
Alex Hill still works for the Met Office and can occasionally be seen on various news reports to do with the weather.
And as for some of the BBC's regional weather presenters, I can tell you that in the South West, David Braine is actually a forecaster too, not just a presenter. He also holds the rank of Commander in the Navy and has been seen in unifrom before now, both in life and on Spotlight.
ITV's regional weather presenters seem to be just that, presenters. Kate Reeves is technically an actress by trade, and Peter Griffin is also a jouornalist and voiceover artist, and can regularly be seen anchoring short bulletins too on Westcountry.
Kate Reeves has also done the weather on GMTV when neither Andrea or Clare have been available. She isn't very good to put it nicely.
cityprod posted:
noggin posted:
itsrobert posted:
noggin posted:
Primetime TV posted:
I hope she is ok, she was a decent forecaster..
Technically isn't Becky a presenter rather than a forecaster?
Forecasters are people like Rob McElwee, Penny Tranter, Philip Avery etc. who have formal Met Office - or other - forecaster training.
The presenters have fewer formal qualifications - and though Met Office trained - don't have the same forecasting skills - formally at least.
Are any of the BBC's weather presenters not forecasters as well?
Yes - Carol Kirkwood and Louise Lear are both Met trained presenters rather than forecasters. Their training is comprehensive when it comes to understanding weather processes and communicating them to the viewer, but they aren't forecasters, so won't also work - potentially - in areas like the Navy, RAF etc.
Many of the BBC regional weather presenters are similar - presenters NOT forecasters. For instance Ivor Moores at Look East was a forecaster, but Julie Reinger is a presenter. (Not sure the Met Office provide all the regional presenters anymore)
Equally, Alex Hill and John Hammond, who used to be ITV National Weather presenters (also provided by the Met Office) were forecasters ISTR - though I'm not sure any of the current ITV team are.
Alex Hill still works for the Met Office and can occasionally be seen on various news reports to do with the weather.
And as for some of the BBC's regional weather presenters, I can tell you that in the South West, David Braine is actually a forecaster too, not just a presenter. He also holds the rank of Commander in the Navy and has been seen in unifrom before now, both in life and on Spotlight.
ITV's regional weather presenters seem to be just that, presenters. Kate Reeves is technically an actress by trade, and Peter Griffin is also a jouornalist and voiceover artist, and can regularly be seen anchoring short bulletins too on Westcountry.
Kate Reeves has also done the weather on GMTV when neither Andrea or Clare have been available. She isn't very good to put it nicely.
Indeed. The ITV National Weather thread is
IT
It's a mixture really. Some NAT pieces are completely original, some are reports shown on other bulletins but re-edited for NAT (so they are a bit different, i.e. graphically) whilst others are copied straight over. For instance, last night I happened to see both the Evening News and NAT and the only identical reports, from memory, were the Julian Manyon piece from Gaza/Egypt and the man on Mars closing package. The other reports, whilst the stories were covered on the EN, were original for NAT.
itsrobert
Founding member
Brekkie Boy posted:
Not really having watched both programmes, is much content from the Evening News regurgitated now for the News at Ten, although with a different sign-off, or is most of News at Ten's content original to the programme - which is the impression I've got from the bulletins I've seen.
It's a mixture really. Some NAT pieces are completely original, some are reports shown on other bulletins but re-edited for NAT (so they are a bit different, i.e. graphically) whilst others are copied straight over. For instance, last night I happened to see both the Evening News and NAT and the only identical reports, from memory, were the Julian Manyon piece from Gaza/Egypt and the man on Mars closing package. The other reports, whilst the stories were covered on the EN, were original for NAT.
TO
At 10pm at night I don't think there is much flexibility for how to write news which has happened during the day and been shown on bulletins not just on the same channel but on all channels. The bottom line is all news is the same, its just how its presented that is different so something which you might find on ITV Evening News could find its way onto BBC 10pm News but presented slightly differently. To be honest, News at Ten is just News at Ten Thirty except with new hosts, different graphics and a new theme tune. You can give a news program a makeover like that but its impossible to change the content.