08-01-2024, 10:39 AM
(07-01-2024, 09:32 PM)qwerty123 Wrote: Is there even 10 freelancers who are regularly appearing on the channel (as opposed to people covering news channel shifts on top or instead of other contracted roles within BBC News)?The freelance and ‘step up’ employed presenters will almost certainly be aware of the situation - that their usage is intended to be temporary as a stop-gap until all the roles are filled.
Lauren Taylor and Tadgh Enright are almost certainly freelance and Lewis Vaughan Jones, Samantha Simmonds and Lukwesa Burak may well be but almost all of the other faces appear to be either be BBC staff who are presenting news channel shifts on top of other lower profile duties and who presumably wouldn’t be best pleased at effectively being demoted or appear so infrequently to be essentially irrelevant (as there will almost certainly always need to be a small amount of freelance cover due to unexpected absences and on location assignments).