[interestednovice]

I’m sure I read somewhere once on the old TV Forum that Michael Buerk once alternated a whole two weeks worth of BBC One bulletins in the late 1980s with one other newsreader (can’t remember who) during a summer.

I think it was Peter Sissons. 

At the time, Buerk and Sissons were the two senior newsreaders and the arrangement was that they would work out the shifts amongst themselves. Buerk was apparently relaxed about it, so Sissons took a two week holiday and he covered it all and appeared every single day for the entire 14 days. Obviously, they normally arranged things in a more even manner!

I believe it was only the 9/10pm news though, not every BBC One bulletin!