17-08-2023, 11:26 PM
(17-08-2023, 09:18 PM)KatsKaravan Wrote: With respect you seem to be moving the goalposts. You say 'more News channel presenters got promotions this year than demotions'. Yes, moving to Network full-time is a promotion, but is it really when Ben Brown, Jane Hill and others presented probably just as many network bulletins as NC slots? All that happened was those NC slots dried up for obvious reasons, so they're full-time Network by default. This is all semantics anyway, I guess. My point was they weren't pure News Channel presenters like Martine and Annita.How is that moving the goalposts? It's just pointing out that, regardless of attempts to portray the News channel as unfairly victimised or snubbed throughout the process, the BBC hardly cleanhoused News channel talent. From what we know, you had two NC presenters going up against about a dozen-or-so WN presenters for five jobs which were quite similar to those of four of the WN presenters (one of whom was, let's not forget, also a primetime NC presenter). I don't get why everybody keeps acting like the only way that Amroliwala, Fraser, Hakim or Hockings could have got the gig was through some nefarious favouritist plot to screw over the News channel.
(17-08-2023, 08:40 PM)News76 Wrote: Because the whole process of how we got to the merger was flawed/a farce and you know it is/was!What? I've always been clear that I feel that merging the news channels was not ideal (though, unlike some on this thread, I do recognise the financial realities of the situation) and that the end product could easily be better (though, again unlike others, my concerns are mainly content based, rather than on what colours the astons are). But, quite frankly, who is presenting is fairly low down on the list of issues I have with the merged channel.