Moira Stuart - Dropped?

Maybe though we're giving her way too much credit - if she is so good with so much experience surely other broadcasters, long before she was dumped by the BBC, would have been targetting her - even when she was relegated to reading the news on Breakfast, and even a couple of years before that when she was axed from the Six o'clock News.

Perhaps there were undercurrents and things never materialised? Maybe Moira Stuart wanted to stick with the BBC with her friends and colleagues she has known for decades?
She never struck me as the sort that would disembowel her granny for a career move. I think she put happiness before fame and fortune!
I also think she is 'old school' in so far as she is loyal to the BBC and does not want to be a channel slapper!

I agree. I think Moira would find it hard to adjust to another broadcaster after 26+ years at the BBC. As she is on staff I guess being poached by other broadcasters has never been on the cards until now. I think she should consider offers outside the BBC seriously. I still believe it will be a shame if none of her work includes presenting live news bulletins. That's what's annoyed me most about this debacle ie. why she couldn't continue to do some news work on Sundays and the occasional Saturday plus other work like documentaries etc.

theres no other slots for her at the bbc by the look of thing exept if she were to get sunday morning back i cant se what she could do on N24

maybe she should look at other slots outside the bbc

Guys, as mentioned several times during this thread, Moira Stuart is clearly not suited to rolling news like N24, nor is she possibly suited to being lead presenter on the One or Ten.

However, she DID for several years feature as the mainstay of BBC Weekend News, which was less challenging in terms of interviews and live two-ways. Essentially, BBC weekend news on BBC1 is still like this, so I fail to see why Moira could not be duty newscaster for Saturday and Sunday.

If a really major breaking story was developing, the duty people at News 24 could step in, or BBC1 would probably simulcast with N24 anyway.

Plus, Moira also DID feature for several years as the main co-presenter on the Six and Nine O'clock News. Again, she mainly and only performed "reading" duties (apart from a few extremely rare occasions), whereas the lead presenter (Witchell, Lewis, Humphrys, etc) handled the interviews.

IMO, all of the above could work again - especially Moira handling all of the BBC 1 weekend bulletins as a consistent presenter, as opposed to the current pic-n-mix where we never know who's gonna pop up.

The only other option within the BBC would be within radio I suppose.

Can't see her doing Newsbeat somehow, but bulleitns on Radio 4, Five Live or the World Service perhaps?

I totally agree. In fact, when the changes at Breakfast were introduced, I was under the impression that in addition to Sunday AM, Moira would be the main weekend News Presenter.

we were all lead to belive by sian that moira was going to be the main weekend news fronter

the saturday news with moira happend about twice .i personally think they should have put mora on the bullitins on saturday and sunday and put mishal on sunday AM.if she really needed the shift i personally dont se why a world presenter needs to do BBC1 on sunday.

insted we have had a mix on saturday ,jane hill,sophie raworth and cris lowe,emily matlis

someone mentiond martin lewis in a previous post,hes now presenting a show for the BAA ,een it in taxis its happy flying with martyn lewis its a giud through britians airports.

Actually to be fair to Sian i doubt she had any idea, and Moira was being given the job of weekend anchor, with her presenting for the first 3 or 4 months 1 or 2 saturdays out of every month, then for about a month she appeared every saturday, and then she went on leave, and when she came back she started making her documentary on the slave trade and could only work Sundays.

I remember when Breakfast first started, Moira did not present Breakfast with Frost, and this instead followed the same setup which is now used for about 3 or 4 months, until she started doing Sunday's again and dropped thursdays, due to public demand.

the public dmanded that she was on breakfast with frost

I suppose the other question is: as she is on contract as a "staffer", what are her contracted hours per week (i.e. is she classed as full or part-time, and could the number of contracted hours have some bearing on what she could be offered, presenting-wise (if, indeed, she is offered anything)?

Don't really know how these things work, within broadcasting.

she would never be needed plus i dont think the bbc would use her.i think she should go to the 1 since darren jordan left theres never really been a permiant fixture on the friday slot and as a relife throught he week