London Live

As far as I'm aware, all but two of the presenters will be leaving the organisation. I don't know which two though.

On paper, I'd assume Alex Beard and Anthony Baxter. However he's been absent so far this week.

So I'm going for Alex and Luke Blackall who covered The Headline Interview for Amol today.

A news wheel format is fine though and probably their best option. Indeed I would say the evenings should in a way be treated similarly to breakfast as in people are arriving home at all sort of times so having a 15/30 minute wheel format airing for an hour or two might make sense and in some ways allows them to go head to head with the BBC and ITV but offer something different. The trouble is though even a news wheel format still needs to be backed up by a decent news team.

It may be the Wake Up London format is introduced across the other bulletins with guests padding them out.

I agree 100%. My money's on Beard and Baxter (or possibly Blackall).

However, considering some of the decision-making over the last year, I wouldn't be surprised to see Scodie presenting the news, and a rotating roster of work-experience 14-year-olds from Shoreditch doing everything else.

This is a really good post in my opinion and something a bit different to everything I've heard regarding these local stations. A 15 minute wheel format would allow the News not to be too padded like their more expensive BBC/ITV counterparts. I agree with you that if this programme ran for a couple (or maybe 3 hours, I'm thinking 5pm - 8pm) per night, you could attract people arriving home at different times and those without the time to watch a full 30 minute programme.

I'm hoping they'll go with this. It essentially gives you the best of both worlds - the headlines, travel and weather every 15 minutes with interviews and feature stories in between, which could be recycled across the other programmes.

A consistent name - London Live News - is also good.

However I still don't understand why they are giving up at breakfast time ....

Anthony Baxter returned to the Evening Show/News tonight, so may have been piloting.

No viewers. I believe it was reported that some ratings for Wake Up London were registering zero viewers. They've probably ditched the least watched early hours and focused the programme around a later time slot with more viewers available.

Those missing Wake Up London hours can then be reallocated to other day parts that are more accessible to viewers.

Thanks for sharing. I'm surprised you've not told us of this before now.

Made in Chelsea repeats starting soon. I can imagine they'll actually rate quite decently but it really doesn't fit the new demo they're supposed to be aiming at.

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