are they going to replace kirsty? does lucy do the weather everyday without a break?
Yes. I think they will need a replacement soon though, Lucy is entitled to holidays and time off for illness and family emergencies. Maybe they will go with Fred again.
Oh god nt Fred!lol
Also I've heard on the grapevine that the revamped show will not be happening until after the summer holidays.. The first Monday of september as they want to avoid any negative press coverage as viewing figures tend to be lower during the summer... Looks like we are stuck with the current show for the next six months.
Also does anyone know the current viewing?
are they going to replace kirsty? does lucy do the weather everyday without a break?
Yes. I think they will need a replacement soon though, Lucy is entitled to holidays and time off for illness and family emergencies. Maybe they will go with Fred again.
Lucy managed while Kirsty was on maternity leave with just a few days cover, I don't remember having a whole week off, even coming in a few days over christmas, probably the full length programmes.
are they going to replace kirsty? does lucy do the weather everyday without a break?
Yes. I think they will need a replacement soon though, Lucy is entitled to holidays and time off for illness and family emergencies. Maybe they will go with Fred again.
Lucy managed while Kirsty was on maternity leave with just a few days cover, I don't remember having a whole week off, even coming in a few days over christmas, probably the full length programmes.
Was there some maternity cover on GMTV possibly Claire was off? Kirsty did the majority of it for a good length of time 4-6 month I think with Phillipa Tomsom providing cover for Kirsty but when it's going to be a long term measure I would assume they would get another person even if it was just freelance leaving the majority to Lucy.
If you had a reliable freelancer on your books I don't see why you need two full-time weather forecasters. BBC Breakfast just has Carol these days, with other BBC forecasters used on an as-needed basis during the week.
Would there be any more resources needed? I mean, 15 minutes may be a stretch, but all they need is a slightly longer weather forecast and more reports (which would be recycled from the night before anyway, just like any footage is at the moment). Other than that it would be the same, no?
They'd surely need more staff to be able to react to any overnight news. With the current setup there is barely any time to cover anything that develops overnight. But with a longer bulletin if news broke overnight I'd have thought viewers would expect a duty correspondent for example
And if the bulletin had too many recycled bits from the previous evening I'm sure viewers would notice
Most regional news shows struggle to find 15 minutes of actual news for their evening bulletins, never mind one before 7am.
People don't really want in depth regional news in the morning - they just want the headlines and most importantly from the regions is weather and travel.
As we have just covered weather on Daybreak, I didn't realise but Australia's TEN's Breakfast has the same weather sponsor, Belvita. TEN keeps the sponsor in a little box next to the clock throughout the forecast.
Would there be any more resources needed? I mean, 15 minutes may be a stretch, but all they need is a slightly longer weather forecast and more reports (which would be recycled from the night before anyway, just like any footage is at the moment). Other than that it would be the same, no?
They'd surely need more staff to be able to react to any overnight news. With the current setup there is barely any time to cover anything that develops overnight. But with a longer bulletin if news broke overnight I'd have thought viewers would expect a duty correspondent for example
And if the bulletin had too many recycled bits from the previous evening I'm sure viewers would notice
Most regional news shows struggle to find 15 minutes of actual news for their evening bulletins, never mind one before 7am.
People don't really want in depth regional news in the morning - they just want the headlines and most importantly from the regions is weather and travel.
If you work it out properly is it actually 15 minutes?
Starts 1 minute late (due to commercials and promo's) and finish at least 3 minutes before 7am (for commercials and promos) then its only 11 minutes - enough time for news, sport, weather and travel.
Plus I don't agree with you that regional news find it a struggle to find 15 minutes worth of news. Is it not just a case that certain regional news programmes tend to feature on one part of the region? For example Granada Reports (my local news) is meant to cover Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester,Isle of Man and north parts of Derbyshire and yet the news covered just tend to be Manchester centric with a small bit over merseyside - very little from Cheshire, Lancashire or Isle of Man and yet I can guarantee that things do happen in those counties/country, just as much as they do in Greater Manchester/Merseyside.
Would there be any more resources needed? I mean, 15 minutes may be a stretch, but all they need is a slightly longer weather forecast and more reports (which would be recycled from the night before anyway, just like any footage is at the moment). Other than that it would be the same, no?
They'd surely need more staff to be able to react to any overnight news. With the current setup there is barely any time to cover anything that develops overnight. But with a longer bulletin if news broke overnight I'd have thought viewers would expect a duty correspondent for example
And if the bulletin had too many recycled bits from the previous evening I'm sure viewers would notice
Most regional news shows struggle to find 15 minutes of actual news for their evening bulletins, never mind one before 7am.
People don't really want in depth regional news in the morning - they just want the headlines and most importantly from the regions is weather and travel.
If you work it out properly is it actually 15 minutes?
Starts 1 minute late (due to commercials and promo's) and finish at least 3 minutes before 7am (for commercials and promos) then its only 11 minutes - enough time for news, sport, weather and travel.
Plus I don't agree with you that regional news find it a struggle to find 15 minutes worth of news. Is it not just a case that certain regional news programmes tend to feature on one part of the region? For example Granada Reports (my local news) is meant to cover Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester,Isle of Man and north parts of Derbyshire and yet the news covered just tend to be Manchester centric with a small bit over merseyside - very little from Cheshire, Lancashire or Isle of Man and yet I can guarantee that things do happen in those counties/country, just as much as they do in Greater Manchester/Merseyside.
So in your world they're going to start delving into part of the regions they don't bother with at 6pm for an early morning bulletin.
Anyhow, taking this in an opposite direction to the days when regional broadcasters had money did any regions actually attempt anything at breakfast in the days before TVam?
