"Hardest-working" presenters

Willie Geist does Morning Joe and Sunday TODAY. He usually has to run between We're at TODAY and Morning Joe if he is contributing on both, which happens often

I mentioned this on another thread but there were a few weeks about a decade ago where Eamonn Holmes was doing Sunrise, then This Morning (all week), and then Jet Set during the period when it was on Wednesday nights, doing all three in one day. And the latter was live from Glasgow to boot.

Ken Bruce talks in his autobiography about his debut on Radio 2 in 1982. He stood in for Ray Moore on the early show for a week while on Radio Scotland (cos he opened up the Radio Times and saw his colleague Jimmy Mack doing a stand-in stint on Radio 2 and immediately phoned the controller of Radio 2 to ask if he could as well), and still did his Radio Scotland show from London, and then on the Friday he had to go to Largs to introduce a concert. And on his first day Wogan got stuck in traffic and he had to carry on for another hour.

Not sure the Wednesday Jet Set was live. The lottery draw would have been but the surrounding show could have been recorded.

Your saying the lotto draw could have been recorded along with the show 30mins earlier?

It was live, it was in the papers at the time. And Jet Set had to be live because the final round depended on what the lottery numbers were.

Not sure any live TV host on the main channels and news bulletins does a 5 day week now - Alex Jones possibly the exception.

Yes - Alex Jones routinely presented The One Show five days a week, week-in, week-out, until she started also presenting 'Shop Well For Less' and became a mother. She still sometimes does 5 days a week, but not every week.

Indeed. I've known him to present about four different slots in one week on the BBC NC in the last few months. He should be used on BBC One and BBC World News more and be given a regular slot on the NC again, he deserves it. Unless he's happy with the current arrangement.

Going back over a quarter of a century here - but after Philip Hayton became the main presenter of the One O'Clock News in late 1988, he missed very few editions until the 1993 revamp.

And before that, he was pretty much the first-choice stand-in when Martyn Lewis and Michael Buerk had other commitments - in addition to frequently presenting the Six and the Nine. (Funnily enough, on the few occasions he missed the One between '88 and '93, the stand-in was usually Martyn or Michael.)

I'm certain I read somewhere that he wasn't happy about being moved aside in the aforementioned '93 revamp - nor did he really enjoy his time presenting North West Tonight, before BBC World launched. Or am I mistaken?

Claudia Liza Armah on Five News?

Amazed we've got to page 3 without mentioning Twice Nightly Whiteley.

All the Calendar spin-offs he presented, too, from Calendar People to Calendar Commentary. And Calendar Countdown, obviously.