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Also, I think other than Sir Trev, all of the main ITV News presenters appeared on the ITV News channel covering shifts, or back filling hours. 

Now, other than Huw Edwards presenting the 5, name which other 'network' faces would appear regularly on the News channel? Huw would present the 5 when he was rota'd to do the 10 - but yet George, Sophie, Mishal and Fiona Bruce never did. Nothing against them, but it never seemed right and no explanation was ever given.

We hear the BBC need to make cutbacks and Tim Davie says about people getting 'value for money', there were really obvious areas of News channel/network (presenter) duplication which could've been addressed - especially when the output was coming from the same studio - long ago but weren't and now we're in this even worse situation.

Yeah, you're right - I think everyone (except Sir Trev, of course!) at ITV News did stints on the NC. Nicholas Owen (or Katie Derham, if she was on that day) would usually host the 1-2 hour straight after the Lunchtime News, and post-February 2004, Mark and Mary regularly did 3-4pm. And Alastair Stewart would do his show from 10am, then stay on for London Tonight at 6. 

Back to the Beeb - wasn't Sophie a fairly regular fill-in around 2007-8? ISTR now and again she would do the One and then stay on to do the afternoon shift on 24 (as it was known back then!). @Newsroom pointed out many times on the old forums that Fiona must have it in her contract to not appear on the News Channel, which would make sense as she has never, EVER done so. George and Mishal both had shows on World for several years as well.

Re. Sophie Raworth she did cover some afternoon shifts (notably with Jon Sopel) around 2007 when I seem to recall reading somewhere that there was a push to get more network faces on the channel. 

This was around the time when Huw started to present what became 'The BBC News at 5 o'clock' (as was) on BBC News 24.

George Alagiah did appear on News 24 during the Iraq war as he double-headed a couple of weekend mornings alongside Maxine Mawhinney.

Wasn't Deborah Turness at ITV News when the 2005 revamp took place and the ITV News channel started sharing much more in the way of network staff/presenters? With her now at the helm of BBC News I'm quite surprised a similar strategy hasn't been adopted?