[AJB39]

Regarding Annita McVeigh - Martine Croxall tweeted that 'they were not leaving, going anywhere'. I fully expect to see them both continuing to present across the new channel.

Martine has made it clear on Twitter that ‘as things stand’ she isn’t leaving the BBC, though doesn’t appear to have any more clarity on what her role would be from April. She’s been quite adamant that she won’t have a ‘presentation’ role on air. Off-air staff generally seemed to have more clarity (though in many cases that seemed to mean redundancy very sadly).

I’m surprised that so close to the new channel launching, so little is known publicly about the schedule or programmes, and that so much seems up in the air in the Washington DC bureau (including at least one chief presenter yet to be appointed). Ordinarily you’d have expected television promos, at least for Nicky Campbell’s programme…

Martine said on Twitter today that she has 6 News Channel presenting shifts left. She also said that she doesn’t yet know what she will be doing after that.

[Radio_man]

Martine has made it clear on Twitter that ‘as things stand’ she isn’t leaving the BBC, though doesn’t appear to have any more clarity on what her role would be from April. She’s been quite adamant that she won’t have a ‘presentation’ role on air. Off-air staff generally seemed to have more clarity (though in many cases that seemed to mean redundancy very sadly).

I’m surprised that so close to the new channel launching, so little is known publicly about the schedule or programmes, and that so much seems up in the air in the Washington DC bureau (including at least one chief presenter yet to be appointed). Ordinarily you’d have expected television promos, at least for Nicky Campbell’s programme…

Martine said on Twitter today that she has 6 News Channel presenting shifts left. She also said that she doesn’t yet know what she will be doing after that.

And this sums up perfectly how badly this merger has been handled for BBC News journalists, presenters, producers, and other staff. Less than two weeks until launch...........

[Newsroom]

Martine said on Twitter today that she has 6 News Channel presenting shifts left. She also said that she doesn’t yet know what she will be doing after that.

And this sums up perfectly how badly this merger has been handled for BBC News journalists, presenters, producers, and other staff. Less than two weeks until launch...........

Absolutely vile!

Zero respect for anyone concerned. 

God, I'd walk and drop something on my way out of those doors. 

Honestly, no interest in watching that rubbish moving forward.

[Stuart]

There is now a BBC News Special scheduled on tomorrow for Boris Johnson's Partygate committee on the NC from 2pm until the News at 6

That sounds like a perfect programme for showing on BBC Parliament rather than the NC.

[Worzel]

There is now a BBC News Special scheduled on tomorrow for Boris Johnson's Partygate committee on the NC from 2pm until the News at 6

That sounds like a perfect programme for showing on BBC Parliament rather than the NC.

Who have zero budget.

[oscillon]

Speaking of Washington DC studio, its screens should be more carefully filmed or rearranged for tight shots of correspondents sitting right next to it. Too close-up shot coupled with white background exposes tiny vertical and horizontal black "stitches" between the separate LED panels. (And, unlike that odd vertical line in Studio B that crosses the bulletin number, those do not seem to my eyes to be a result of a weird computer graphics output.)

[thomalex]

So it turns out we are getting a new look come April

[oscillon]

So it turns out we are getting a new look come April

Yes, but apparently not THE new look we had rumours of, more of a Chameleon update to the existing 2008 one.
cleanfeed.thetvroom.com 

Presentation changes coming up on BBC News - Clean Feed
There's been quite a bit of speculation among Presentation enthusiasts - no…
  Source: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com

Well, as we understand it, no significant visual changes are planned.

The familiar globe device has been recreated at higher quality. So expect it to be hanging about for a while yet.

We will see the phasing out of the red patch logo. The now familiar Chameleon-style branding will be introduced, with the BBC blocks at the top of the screen and the ‘NEWS’ brand positioned at the bottom.

[Stuart]

That sounds like a perfect programme for showing on BBC Parliament rather than the NC.

Who have zero budget.

Are you suggesting that all staff working at BBC Parliament are unpaid volunteers and that all the broadcast facilities are provided free of charge with no budget?

My suggestion was simply to avoid an unnecessary domestic opt-out from the merged NC, when they already have an existing channel capable of delivering a lengthy live broadcast from a Parliamentary Committee Room.

Edits of the 4 hour session will be of interest to the NC and also network bulletins.

[Newshound47]

The commons is sitting at the same time so BBC Parliament can’t be used.