[interestednovice]

Frankie McCamley is presenting now on BBC News. She has occasionally presented before, but is mainly a reporter (previously covering domestic news stories in the UK).

Maybe I’m reading too much into this, given that we are likely to have unusual presenters filling in during the transition period anyway, but could we be seeing a sort of “live auditions/trials” for the presenter-report roles?

The 'transition period' is almost over - there's just 1 week left before the new channel launches. And apparently, apart from the 5 chief anchors, other long standing presenters have no idea in what capacity they'll be employed (or whether they'll still be employed at all) at the BBC from a week on Monday.

I know the transition period is almost over, but we are still in it! Hence why I say it’s perhaps expected to have unusual faces until the end of the month.

We don’t yet know if the presenter-reporter roles are finalised, I suspect they are not as something probably would have leaked if they were. The final arrangements are clearly to be “phased in” after the initial soft launch. Eventually, I imagine we will then see redundancies announced. The BBC are dragging out the process hoping that low morale will force many to “naturally” leave through voluntary redundancy, it seems.

All I really expect in the short term, once the transition period ends, is for BBC WN to rebrand to “BBC News” and the chameleon-tweaked graphics to debut. Alterations to studios, the launch of new branded programmes, and even final presenter lineups, will become clear later on.