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HB
HarryB
Simon King now on Breakfast's sofa talking to John Maguire about storms.

What has happened to Simon now? He got named as "bbc meteorologist" but I've never actually seen him on TV doing the weather before for years?

Does he do radio?
MI
m_in_m
He works for BBC Five Live - hence crops up occasionally on Breakfast or Newsround. I'm not sure if he's employed by the BBC or like the team in London by the Met Office. I assume the weather hub teams are employed by BBC - even those in London who use the same studios as the national team.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
I think he also does a forecast for one of the London based networks, possibly 6 music, down the line from Salford
MI
m_in_m
Yes it is 6 Music though pictures I had seen from either a blog post or tweets suggested the show came from Salford - but perhaps it has since changed or was a special.

From his BBC profile - http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/about/19117161
Quote:

In November 2011 Simon moved to Salford Quays to be based with and present the Radio 5 live weather bulletins. He can also be heard early in the mornings on the 6music Early Breakfast show
DV
dvboy
Yes it is 6 Music though pictures I had seen from either a blog post or tweets suggested the show came from Salford - but perhaps it has since changed or was a special.


6 music's Early Breakfast (Chris Hawkins) is one of the shows that comes from Salford.
WA
watchingtv
ive seen him a number of times while on Holiday, on BBC World
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Makes sense. There was a behind the scenes video showing a morning in the life, he had to go to a different building to do 6 music and it looked like he was alone rather than in the same studio as the show he was contributing to. May have been mocked up for the video I guess.
BE
Benjamin1
ITV regional weather continues to use random presenters, Meridian's GMB opts reader Amanda Piper covering Meridian/West Country on Saturday. Surely for continuity it would be better to have a permanent/regular faces for each region?
ST
South Today
....and Central too! James Wright even turned up on Channel Television yesterday!
NW
nwtv2003
Granada are in a bit of a limbo at the moment with regards to Weather, Emma Jesson I believe only works part time, Kerrie Gosney hosts most of the week, Fred Talbot technically hasn't left ITV however he's still awaiting trial and Jo Blythe has just started maternity leave, so quite often they can get almost anyone they can hosting, Lucy Verasamy (down the line from London) has presented a few times of late, Alex Beresford and Lukha (can't remember her last name sorry!) have presented. Amanda Houston and Jon Mitchell have presented too, it's basically whoever they can get!
ST
South Today
Granada are in a bit of a limbo at the moment with regards to Weather, Emma Jesson I believe only works part time, Kerrie Gosney hosts most of the week, Fred Talbot technically hasn't left ITV however he's still awaiting trial and Jo Blythe has just started maternity leave, so quite often they can get almost anyone they can hosting, Lucy Verasamy (down the line from London) has presented a few times of late, Alex Beresford and Lukha (can't remember her last name sorry!) have presented. Amanda Houston and Jon Mitchell have presented too, it's basically whoever they can get!


Manali Lukha
AN
Andrew Founding member
Jon Mitchell has been off this past two weeks and on Yorkshire weather so far we've had Kerrie Gosney, Emma Jesson, Lucy Verasamy, Alex Berresford, James Wright and Amanda Houston!

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