[chrisherald]

Hello everyone, been away since TVLF shut down but missed the discussion and glad I’ve found this again.

Been reading back through the last few weeks’ of this thread and wondered if anyone has clarified whether or not the presenter/reporter roles are the same as the ‘stand by’ team who will be on hand for breaking domestic stories? Unless the plan is for business and political correspondents to also present at weekends, I haven’t quite figured out why they need new ‘correspondents’ specifically for the new news channel, when surely the bulk of contributions will be from the BBC’s existing reporter base?

Do we also have any insight into the production workings of the ‘visualised’ Nicky Campbell output will be? Are we expecting it to look like current radio output does on social media (awkwardly placed cameras, presenters speaking into radio mics etc.) or something closer to the TalkTV/ News Agents approach?

Finally, are the BBC One bulletins which are currently produced by the NC (the One and weekends) getting their own fully dedicated crews and production teams now? If so, I wonder if they might have any role to play in breaking news opts - in a similar way to the Network team would have to make it to air in the event of major daytime breaking news in the pre-NC era?

Thanks

While I have no insider knowledge, as I said earlier in the thread, about "why create new job roles/re-audition people," well it's to do with downsizing/pay cuts/layoffs:

I thought those new roles were just a way to keep some people at cheaper rates, a technicality/process to evolve the jobs. Sometimes you have to "close" something (a role/position) to "open" something else (another job role with different pay specs), when it all amounts to parts of the same thing, with a new label on the tin at a different rate. Kenny Everett voice: We're not closing the news channel, we're closing two channels (!), to have one new channel, with two streams (and four wizards!), that sort of nonsense. It's a party trick, a slight of hand, a misdirection. But I'm guessing, someone else will know more.

Its also easier to make dramatic staff and resource changes by "closing" the whole lot of something than to migrate small matters in a workplace/corporate-politically feasible way; giving a voice to those with a stake in the matter, answering questions, having real conversations along the way, nah that's too much to ask. Less questions overall when you "close" it. Hey, look, you've got a "new" role, this is exciting. Two streams! Zero channels! Whatever. If you fire people (voluntary redundancy), it's difficult to talk about what you're "creating." So we have to "create" "new" job roles to counterbalance the depth of truth in the press releases and Ofcom/etc hearings. While it is true these new roles will technically have different job descriptions and pay, different codes in various HR systems, it's mostly a political technicality.