[JamesWorldNews]

* Mishal and Amol clash over the role of presenter........and not drinking on the job? What *have* I missed??

[m_in_m]

* Mishal and Amol clash over the role of presenter........and not drinking on the job? What *have* I missed??

Mail is reported to have drunk rum before his first appearance on Today and apparently avoids presenting outside of London seeing the programme as a step on the ladder whilst others see it as the top step of the ladder. 

His salary is apparently around £600k but won’t get reported. That last but confuses me. What elements of his job are within BBC Studios or is this already taking University Challenge into account?

[Newsroom]

Secunder Kermani moving to Channel 4 News is such another colossal loss for the BBC. I know his announcement was made in July, but only just clocked it when Lyse Doucet wished him well.

Am truly shocked. Talk about allowing flourishing talent, superb to say the least to walk off without any apparent attempts to retain is bananas. Same goes for Lewis Goodall - no counter offer was made!

My goodness, he’s only been an integral part to mainline reporting for under two years, appearing on all main outlets. His reporting was so excellent.

You begin to really wonder what the actual (rude word) is going on at the BBC.

[UTVLifer]

It's very clear now that BBC News isn't just bleeding, but haemorrhaging talent - and this is all before the next round of cuts coupled with the NC/WN merger

And they are letting the 'next generation' of BBC News - such as Lewis Goodall or Secunder Kermani - slip through its fingers as almost everybody and their dog appears to be jumping ship (or preparing/considering doing so)

[Omnipresent]

A lot of changes have been carried out in a very ham fisted way.

Relocating whole teams out of London, as history has long shown, means the BBC loses good people. I understand the BBC is following the mood music but moving Newsbeat to Birmingham means splitting the team away from the rest of Radio 1 and BBC News. I feel for people like Christian Hewgill who fulfilled their career ambition to join the BBC and then find they have to leave.

Similarly, it's a daft idea to move the technology team to Glasgow when all the major technology companies in the UK are based in Central London.

[Stuart]

Similarly, it's a daft idea to move the technology team to Glasgow when all the major technology companies in the UK are based in Central London.

In 2021 the biggest Tech Hubs in the UK were in Newbury, Basingstoke, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow.

Source: Tremglobal.com

[m_in_m]

Similarly, it's a daft idea to move the technology team to Glasgow when all the major technology companies in the UK are based in Central London.

In 2021 the biggest Tech Hubs in the UK were in Newbury, Basingstoke, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow.

Source: Tremglobal.com

My issue is not with moving out of London but moving entire teams to a single location. I could see better representation being achieved by having the specialist teams spread across the UK so you could have a tech correspondent in Salford, Leeds, Glasgow and Cambridge - as an example. If you do that with all teams it feels likes it would be better.

[DTV]

They did speak about the merger (or non-merger as Davie was insistent about) for about 20 minutes in the DMCS select committee today, but very little was said that hasn't been announced - a lot of hedging by Davie around final plans. Understandably, a lot of concern by MPs about the cutback in UK hours and the vagueness of the plans for the breaking news opt - John Nicolson particularly highlighting concern of BBC staff about the plans. I was surprised by how understanding they were about the interests and importance of the commercial international audience, but a clear and undeniable view that the UK viewers will be underserved by plans as they stand. But was interesting how Davie kept talking about negotiations and that schedules weren't finalised, etc.

[Lester]

They did speak about the merger (or non-merger as Davie was insistent about) for about 20 minutes in the DMCS select committee today, but very little was said that hasn't been announced - a lot of hedging by Davie around final plans. Understandably, a lot of concern by MPs about the cutback in UK hours and the vagueness of the plans for the breaking news opt - John Nicolson particularly highlighting concern of BBC staff about the plans. I was surprised by how understanding they were about the interests and importance of the commercial international audience, but a clear and undeniable view that the UK viewers will be underserved by plans as they stand. But was interesting how Davie kept talking about negotiations and that schedules weren't finalised, etc.

I saw most of it. I think at times the DG was almost tetchy in his responses over this. He is trying to sell this as closure of both channels and one new channel with two equal streams. What he tries to gloss over is the fact that the default stream is basically BBC World News in all but name and the UK has opt outs, most of which are BBC One broadcasts. What we all know will be a broom cupboard for UK breaking news which will be half an hour behind Sky.

[ginnyfan]

I really don't think it matters what kind of a studio they will use for UK breaking news. Even if it is a ''broom cupboard'', isn't breaking news coverage usually the time when you don't get to see the presenter and the studio because there's live video of whatever news is breaking.