Good Morning Britain

Bit of a jump to conclusions there.

Great news! I'm happy for Ranvir, well deserved role. She wouldn't be on the evening news much anymore as Charlene & Alastair are the covers for Mary. Yet I do feel for Clodagh as she never appeared confident reporting, but has she left?

Charlotte was on 5 days last week and was on again Thursday this week, so it looks like shes increasing her days again. We will probably see Ranvir still present holidays.

Team @GMB with producer @Annemariealex for #Trump meets #Theresa - just landed in Philadelphia. Not bad for my 1st day in new job as Pol Ed pic.twitter.com/Sj7VWhbkQN

— ranvir singh (@ranvir01) January 26, 2017

[quote="BroadcastWales" pid="1045310"]Great news! I'm happy for Ranvir, well deserved role. She wouldn't be on the evening news much anymore as Charlene & Alastair are the covers for Mary. Yet I do feel for Clodagh as she never appeared confident reporting, but has she left?

I doubt she will have time to present, did Susan Jameson, Paul Brand, Clodagh Higginson, etc, present - no they didn't.
It may mean more of the likes of Phillipa Thomson & Sean Fletcher at the news desk,
It's the same what happen to Louisa James just before daybreak ended she became Royal Correspondent and continued as an occasional newsreader.

That's good news. It always did seem an odd choice placing a print journalist with no television experience into such a high profile role, and it really didn't work given how often she fluffed up her lines.

On GMB's website Ranvir is no longer under the presenter section but is now in the editor category. I guess we won't be seeing Ranvir in the studio anymore.
www.itv.com/gmb

That bloke BBC News had as sports editor for a time was also like that I think, and experienced print journalist who just didn't have the presence on TV.

I think both David Bond and Mihir Bose had print backgrounds, and both were sports editors.

However Andrew Marr and Robert Peston are also former print journalists and successfully made the move (though Andrew Marr tried it before less successfully ISTR)

Kate is not down as a presenter in the official capacity either.

Oops, I was just thinking the other day that the opener doesn't seem to go wrong as often as it used to.

I'm sure back in 2015 the signature sting, bed and title music all ran under one track and all the vision desk controller had to control were the transitions between stories and then titles. But nowadays they seem to have the signature sting, bed and title music all under different tracks so they can extend the length of the titles however they want. Or is the sound and visual transitions controlled by two different people?

Yes the headlines used to be a fixed length leading into the titles. Now they go into the titles when they want, which is why there's now a few big drum beats at the start to mask the clash.

Interestingly, the title track is fine to crash into. The drumbeats make it more noticeable.

They actually used to use the fixed length title tracks, then moved to a modified fixed length track, where it would 'crash' (smoothly) into the final part of the bed and flutter into the titles. This worked well. Then they moved to the current way, which is quite jarring. A better idea would've been to use the roll up that is on the sting into and out of breaks.