The Newsroom

NUJ BBC Strikes

Strike TODAY (July 2011)

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
DF
DrewF
The Business presenter Sam seems to be doing more appearances than normal too, she's been doing bulletins every half an hour. Her delivery is very irritating!
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Are they leaving opt points for regions which have been able to get a regional bulletin together to opt in and out or are they just cancelled across the board? I'd have thought most of today's bulletins will have been largely prepared yesterday bar anything which has happened overnight, and as Breakfast bullies are usually just done by two people they should be far less affected than the 6.30 or lunchtime.


Well there was a very noticeable opt point there at 8.26am, but Gavin Grey used 'This is BBC News' to lead into it. So it might have been as much for World as for the regions. What is World doing at the moment?


That was for BBC World News to link into the weather forecast.
GE
Gareth E
Are they leaving opt points for regions which have been able to get a regional bulletin together to opt in and out or are they just cancelled across the board? I'd have thought most of today's bulletins will have been largely prepared yesterday bar anything which has happened overnight, and as Breakfast bullies are usually just done by two people they should be far less affected than the 6.30 or lunchtime.


Well there was a very noticeable opt point there at 8.26am, but Gavin Grey used 'This is BBC News' to lead into it. So it might have been as much for World as for the regions. What is World doing at the moment?


That was for BBC World News to link into the weather forecast.


So World are now simulcasting then? Presumably because Martine Dennis's shift finished at 8am as usual?
DF
DrewF
Lack of Sport presenter on Breakfast this morning too.
TV
TVnut15
9am regional opt out also missing, well at least in BBC South region.
DF
DrewF
9am regional opt out also missing, well at least in BBC South region.


All the opts have been missing. Breakfast and Gavin Grey have continued through 9am but I imagine they'll stop at 9:15am - as the headlines were much shorter and Gavin mentioned nothing about sport and weather.
JW
JamesWorldNews
I think we may have simulcast for one segment only, being the 8am TOTH London time. However, at 9am, we now have Adnan Nawaz reading the news on World. Wonder why we had the single simulcast segment?

Anyway, apart from that, to the regular World viewer, no one would notice much of a difference so far today. Will be interesting so see what happens with GMT, Impact, The Hub and Zeinab later on though.
DS
Dan S
End of Breakfast, Gavin Grey continuing on BBC News Channel
DS
Dan S
Sue Thearle from 9:30 on the NC
CM
cms43
What a shame - I thought they were doing quite well, and now she's on. Let's hope she doesn't do a Maxine and stay there for 6 hours.
JW
JamesWorldNews
cms43 posted:
What a shame - I thought they were doing quite well, and now she's on. Let's hope she doesn't do a Maxine and stay there for 6 hours.


She's not that bad. Come on. On a day of industrial action, surely a few hours of Sue Thearle or anyone else is better than testcard?
CH
chris_rgu
Gavin is back on with Sue now.

Newer posts