11-11-2023, 11:43 PM
(11-11-2023, 09:43 PM)Reith85 Wrote: This may be a minority opinion but I struggle to even tell who are the chiefs and who are the freelancers on the BBC News channel these days - but then I'm a domestic viewer in the UK where presenters such as Lucy Hockings are still relatively unfamiliar to me, at least. Almost 8 months on from this relaunch and I still see a merged channel that is struggling to settle and find some semblance of an identity. It doesn't help that - as I've expressed before on here - whenever you switch to it, it feels lacking in presentation and like you're only seconds away from another on-air mistake of some sort.Yes it’s very irregular with which presenter you will get. If we say that 5am-12 week days and weekends aren’t covered by any official shifts/chief presenters, that leaves about 75 hours. If ‘the 5 ladies’ or others on the team did 3 hours on screen each over 5 days that would pretty much give you complete normal cover. That way free lancers wouldn’t be needed as much. I thought this merger would have given better consistency with shifts.