[qwerty123]

Here are just a few. The fact I don't know most of their names says it all.

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But let me make it clear, I did not mean any disrespect to any of them. In fact, most did a fine job, considering the circumstances and there were no major cock ups. BUT, there was this total shift in everything, after years and even decades of familiar BBC faces, which combined with the limited presentation and other technical issues made the whole operation look like an amateur hour.


Thankfully we have moved on and the channel is functioning again!

I’m not sure that’s the evidence you think it is. Images one and 9 probably did a handful of shifts at most, image 12 did literally one shift as last minute cover between Xmas and new year, images 3,4,5 and 10 were appearing regularly prior to the merger (and image 7 as regularly before the merger as after it albeit infrequently in both cases), image 6 had done several studio stints over the past few years and is a very experienced correspondent and image 8 has never presented BBC News programming from London (and already covered Newsday prior to the merger).
Only images 7 and 11 could even remotely be considered to be new semi regular presenters since the merger who probably aren’t at the levels of talent and experience that had previously be seen on the channels.
I also think many on this forum purposely fail to remember that the channel has always had its share of less experienced presenters of varying ability levels (people like Reged Ahmad, Tom Donkin, Nkem Ifejika, Alpa Patel, Krupa Padhy, Daniela Ritorto, Nancy Kacungira and Lebo Diseko were hardly top class journalists or experienced rolling news presenters when they were appearing on the output).