The Newsroom

New Director of BBC Sport appointed

(July 2005)

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AdamP
And it's Roger Mosey, the current head of TV news.
BN
Breakfast News
I take it Rachell Atwell just take over on a temp. basis as head of TV News then.
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Dog
The question is: why does TV News have a deputy head anyway?

Radio news and interactive news dont.
MA
Magoo
Here is the BBC press release
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noggin Founding member
Dog posted:
The question is: why does TV News have a deputy head anyway?

Radio news and interactive news dont.


I think TV News has more output than the other departments - and a higher profile?

Certainly there is BBC News 24, BBC World, BBC One (Breakfast, One, Six, Ten), BBC Two (Newsnight - and I guess Working Lunch), BBC Three (7 O'Clock News and 60 Seconds), BBC Four (The World) as well as all of the BBC World and BBC News 24 features programmes.

Radio News is presumably Five Live (which has its own controller), and the news programmes and bulletins on Radio Four, as well as bulletins on the other networks. BBC World Service is separate AIUI.
DO
dodrade
I would have thought being head of news was a bigger job than head of sport, am I wrong?
DO
Dog
noggin posted:
Dog posted:
The question is: why does TV News have a deputy head anyway?

Radio news and interactive news dont.


I think TV News has more output than the other departments - and a higher profile?

Certainly there is BBC News 24, BBC World, BBC One (Breakfast, One, Six, Ten), BBC Two (Newsnight - and I guess Working Lunch), BBC Three (7 O'Clock News and 60 Seconds), BBC Four (The World) as well as all of the BBC World and BBC News 24 features programmes.

Radio News is presumably Five Live (which has its own controller), and the news programmes and bulletins on Radio Four, as well as bulletins on the other networks. BBC World Service is separate AIUI.


Radio News is:

Five Live news summaries, ( TOTH/ BOTH)
All Five Live programming except sport, (Breakfast/Drive etc)
Radio 4 news bulletins, (1800 news etc)
Radio 4 summaries, (TOTH)
Radio 4 news programmes, (Today/Wato etc)
Radio 1 Newsbeat, (BOTH/1245 etc)
Radio 2 news, (TOTH)
Radio 3 news, (TOTH during peak)
6 Music news, (BOTH)
World Service hourly bulletins, (TOTH/BOTH/online etc)
World Service news programmes, (World Today/ World Brieding etc)
etc.

Ofcourse each programme has its own editor, but then so does each TV news programme. News 24 has an editor, then an editor for each strand. World has an editor, the 1/6/10 have seperate editors. Plus all the Ass Eds too.
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Dog
dodrade posted:
I would have thought being head of news was a bigger job than head of sport, am I wrong?


Yes it is, but Mosey isn't head of News; he's head of TV News.
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NickyS Founding member
Dog posted:
dodrade posted:
I would have thought being head of news was a bigger job than head of sport, am I wrong?


Yes it is, but Mosey isn't head of News; he's head of TV News.

The new job Roger M has is DIRECTOR of Sport, not Head of Sport ... DIRECTOR of News is Helen Boaden so the job is much higher than his current on of Head of TV News.

17 days later

MA
Magoo
Interesting article by Roger Mosey here in which he discusses his opinions of the current TV news industry - includes criticism of Fox News and states that Sky are now fully aware that they are no 2 in terms of UK 24 hour news channels to BBC News 24. Well worth a read.
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cat
And they call it a bureaucracy.

Find it amusing that when News 24 was behind in the audience ratings they were constantly claiming 'it doesn't matter', and now they're ahead (down entirely to Freeview take-up) it's all that the BBC comment on. Presumably they are having trouble finding anything else to praise the channel for.
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Marcus Founding member
cat posted:
And they call it a bureaucracy.

Find it amusing that when News 24 was behind in the audience ratings they were constantly claiming 'it doesn't matter', and now they're ahead (down entirely to Freeview take-up) it's all that the BBC comment on. Presumably they are having trouble finding anything else to praise the channel for.


Am I missing something but Sky News is also available on Freeview

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