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Nick Robinson poached by the BBC!

(June 2005)

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BN
Breakfast News
johnofhertford posted:
cylon6 posted:
.After the wonderful John Sargeant left, we had a very bad time with Robin Oakley. The man knew his stuff but he just didn't connect to the audience that well.


A small point, but Robin Oakley replaced John Cole, not John Sergeant. John Sergeant left the BBC after, and because of, Robin Oakley's appointment.


Which was just before the appointment of Andrew Marr.
CY
cylon6
johnofhertford posted:
cylon6 posted:
.After the wonderful John Sargeant left, we had a very bad time with Robin Oakley. The man knew his stuff but he just didn't connect to the audience that well.


A small point, but Robin Oakley replaced John Cole, not John Sergeant. John Sergeant left the BBC after, and because of, Robin Oakley's appointment.


Ah yes that's it? I remember him saying a few things about Oakley. Why didn't he like him?
NE
newsbeat
There was quite a large article in The Sunday Telegraph today about the appointment of Robinson at the BBC. I haven't read the entire story, but the jist was that Robinson had asked the interviewing to be done in absolute secrecy. This was because, according to Robinson, he owed a 'duty to his employers', because if he was rejected he would be known as the BBC News 'reject', and thus tarnish the name of ITV.

It goes to say that a unnamed news broadcaster, as far as I remember, would prefer Marney (or I think that is her name) from Newsnight. Consequently, the rejection of Marney has lead her to question her future at the BBC.

The article also has someone describing Robinson as a 'rottweiler'.

I will re check the article and clarify some of the details later.
CY
cylon6
newsbeat posted:
There was quite a large article in The Sunday Telegraph today about the appointment of Robinson at the BBC. I haven't read the entire story, but the jist was that Robinson had asked the interviewing to be done in absolute secrecy. This was because, according to Robinson, he owed a 'duty to his employers', because if he was rejected he would be known as the BBC News 'reject', and thus tarnish the name of ITV.

It goes to say that a unnamed news broadcaster, as far as I remember, would prefer Marney (or I think that is her name) from Newsnight. Consequently, the rejection of Marney has lead her to question her future at the BBC.

The article also has someone describing Robinson as a 'rottweiler'.

I will re check the article and clarify some of the details later.


Martha Karney(Kearney?) would be a loss to Newsnight she is just so good on that show. If she did go anywhere it would be to Channel Four News in my opinion.
JO
johnofhertford
cylon6 posted:
johnofhertford posted:
cylon6 posted:
.After the wonderful John Sargeant left, we had a very bad time with Robin Oakley. The man knew his stuff but he just didn't connect to the audience that well.


A small point, but Robin Oakley replaced John Cole, not John Sergeant. John Sergeant left the BBC after, and because of, Robin Oakley's appointment.


Ah yes that's it? I remember him saying a few things about Oakley. Why didn't he like him?


Well he probably didn't like him because he got the job, and he thought he should have had it.

In his book he talks about the transition from John Cole to Robin Oakley, being like going from Thatcher to Major - "life in a lower key".
JO
johnofhertford
newsbeat posted:
There was quite a large article in The Sunday Telegraph today about the appointment of Robinson at the BBC. I haven't read the entire story, but the jist was that Robinson had asked the interviewing to be done in absolute secrecy. This was because, according to Robinson, he owed a 'duty to his employers', because if he was rejected he would be known as the BBC News 'reject', and thus tarnish the name of ITV.

It goes to say that a unnamed news broadcaster, as far as I remember, would prefer Marney (or I think that is her name) from Newsnight. Consequently, the rejection of Marney has lead her to question her future at the BBC.

The article also has someone describing Robinson as a 'rottweiler'.

I will re check the article and clarify some of the details later.


Polly Toynbee write a piece in The Guardian this week, in which I think she referred to him as a rottweiler. He mentioned it in his own column in yesterday's Times. Both pieces on the web if you want to search for them
JO
johnofhertford
Not a lot new in the Telegraph article, mostly last week's dinner reheated. A bit of a Freudian slip too - Michael Grade referred to as the DG!
CU
cummig20
cylon6 posted:
Martha Karney(Kearney?) would be a loss to Newsnight she is just so good on that show. If she did go anywhere it would be to Channel Four News in my opinion.


I don't think she's going anywhere. In the TV listings from the Observer Magazine it says that she's hosting Newsnight on Tuesday (unless I've misinterpreted it). A step up, no?
BN
Breakfast News
cummig20 posted:
cylon6 posted:
Martha Karney(Kearney?) would be a loss to Newsnight she is just so good on that show. If she did go anywhere it would be to Channel Four News in my opinion.


I don't think she's going anywhere. In the TV listings from the Observer Magazine it says that she's hosting Newsnight on Tuesday (unless I've misinterpreted it). A step up, no?


She's done it before, they often use her when the other anchors aren't available. I would imagine she has a very good chance of getting the C4 News political editors post.
CU
cummig20
Breakfast News posted:
cummig20 posted:
cylon6 posted:
Martha Karney(Kearney?) would be a loss to Newsnight she is just so good on that show. If she did go anywhere it would be to Channel Four News in my opinion.


I don't think she's going anywhere. In the TV listings from the Observer Magazine it says that she's hosting Newsnight on Tuesday (unless I've misinterpreted it). A step up, no?


She's done it before, they often use her when the other anchors aren't available. I would imagine she has a very good chance of getting the C4 News political editors post.


OK, apologies, just trying to throw my rather uninformed take in there. Very Happy Don't have that much knowledge of Newsnight, I don't really watch it that often.
LO
Londoner
Amusing piece on possible successors to Robinson at ITV:
www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/300605/wanted_a_new_
LO
Londoner
Robinson seems to have returned from gardening leave to cover today's events for ITV.

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