[Moz]

You could argue that when they're not presenting they can be contributing to the general journalistic research. Great. Who does that when they are presenting? Do they then have a journalist on standby for when that happens? A journalist who needs paying to be in the office regardless of whether they are needed or not? You can keep this argument going in circles. And, that's only the presenters/journalists. What are the standby technical crew doing while there's no need to opt? Sitting in an empty, but ready to go, studio waiting for something to happen? They may as well be on air in that studio producing a non stop UK opt...

You’ll know more about this than I do, but I’d wager that not all general journalistic research gets on air. Even less so when there’s a breaking news story rolling for hours.

So when they’re needed to present, they present. When they’re not needed they do general journalism to make lots of little stories needed more when there isn’t a single big story.

As for tech staff - surely a locked off camera on a balcony can be handled by the same gallery that’s working the World stream?