29-01-2023, 10:57 PM
(29-01-2023, 10:41 PM)ginnyfan Wrote: Maybe they will have a small camera set up in the newsroom and one person on duty, always ready to tune in when the news breaks. They already have the balcony set used for Outside Source that could be used.You need more than one person to operate breaking news coverage - unless it is just to consist of a presenter sat reading out agency copy. Plus, as I've said previously, either this team will be on air regularly - in which case you might as well make it a full-time opt - or it will be on air sparingly - in which case you are paying people to be sitting around in a permanent state of readiness. And we have to assume that there'll be at least two shifts of the team - if a big UK-specific story breaks in the mid-morning (or during election campaigns), it's unlikely you're going to have one presenter and production team continuing all day. It would be a better use of resources to merge this proposed team with the existing domestic teams and provide a daytime opt-out from the international channel.