The New ITV & BBC Weather Thread

Government/public services sadly face the issues noted above, I work in a team that is a shared function between public and private....the contrast is unbelievable!

I didn’t intend on starting a public vs private argument. My point was merely to add weight to the comment on dependencies.

ITV News London utilised three weather presenters today.

Becky Mantin with a live from Westminster on the red sun caused by Ophelia.
Amanda Houston with the forecast.
Martin Stew with a VT about the Great Storm of 1987.

Susan Powell was presenting the weather on Countryfile tonight (22nd) and subsequently after the 10. I hadn’t seen her for a long while, thought she’d left. But it’s good to see her.

Still no news on the new graphics/change to Meteogroup?

Great to see Susan again.

Can I say on this forum that long hair suits her - or is that another comment more appropriate for DS?

Anyway, lest we forget, she had the honour of presenting the last report with the classic graphics (with a short history at the end, too), before Helen W presented the first report of the current look on Breakfast.

I assume the new look will also debut on a Monday morning, with Carol presenting the first report (still no-one else confirmed to be staying on, AFAIK, despite the Beeb saying that the vast majority of the current team will remain on screen). But how much fanfare will there be, and what will happen at the end of the last report of the current look? Guess we'll just have to wait and see...

As has previously been pointed out, we could be waiting until next Easter for the change. I, too, am surprised the press (especially the anti-Beeb rags) haven't picked up on this...

December is a possibility...

Not if those (now deleted tweets) we're anything to go by-if those tweets do turn out to be true we're looking at next Easter (which next year is April 1st).

And to back this up, it seems this now being reported on the Guardian Website.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/05/bbc-weather-met-office-contract-meteogroup-delays?CMP=twt_a-media_b-gdnmedia

BBC reports: BBC extends Met Office weather forecast contract

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41878713

I do not like the tone of that Guardian article. At all.

"The new system is months behind schedule", "the BBC publicly ditched the Met Office", "there were disagreements between the BBC and MeteoGroup about the quality of the new package"...

The Guardian and the Observer may be changing to the tabloid format next year - but that doesn't mean they should become tabloid in style too. After all, the Times is printed in the tabloid format but remains broadsheet in style...

But that's a discussion for a newspaper forum, of course.

It all seems pretty factual and unsensational to me. The new system *is* months behind schedule and the BBC *did* ditch the Met Office publicly. And maybe there were disagreements - it’s not like they referred to them as ‘rows’ or a ‘spat’ as a tabloid might.

I don’t want to start an argument but I agree with SpencerForHire above. My gut feeling from dealing with contracts in the past (although not in the BBC) is that Meteogroup will probably have been cautioned about any further delay in the system going live. It must be pretty costly to Meteogroup if they’re working on this with no payment until it goes live.