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Matt Barbet to leave 5 News

Back to the BBC maybe? I was surprised when he covered the Victoria Derbyshire show a couple of months back.

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By rob

30 replies

8,006 views

RN 4 Dec - 3 Jan 2018Rolling News

Questionable Reason for a BBC Weather Forecast Interruption?

Live BBC Weather,05-12-2017 11.57,interrupted to show May with Spanish PM at 10 Downing Street

Hey, y'know... In New Zealand, the 6pm news headlines get interrupted by A TEASER FOR THE WEATHER FORECAST

God, TVNZ is terrible

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By D.Page

12 replies

1,084 views

S7 5 Dec - 6 Decsbahnhof 7

George Alagiah's time check during the BBC News at 6

Is the time check communicated to George in advance, via Auto Cue?

That Autocue/ENPS integration in BBC News certainly used to be quite the opposite - and a total nightmare... If you updated the ENPS version of the on-air story it updated on Autocue instantly. If...

By D.Page

6 replies

1,180 views

NG 12 Dec - 13 Decnoggin

BBC Look North (North East & Cumbria)

...and their studios

I actually think the 2008-2013 style sets look better than the newer ones. Maybe its just me, but I like the old ring textures alot.

By TellyFan

5 replies

826 views

IT 14 Dec - 18 DecIttr

Fran Unsworth new Director of BBC News & Current Affairs

Noteworthy this bucks the trend of making senior appointments at BBC News from outside the BBC, notably the press (James Harding, Ian Katz, Sarah Sands, Amol Rajan). David Holdsworth's departure...

By rob

4 replies

815 views

OM 15 Dec - 18 DecOmnipresent

BBC appoints Fran Unsworth as next head of news

Already being talked about...

By TellyFan

1 reply

234 views

PA 15 DecPATV Scunthorpe

24/7 News Channel on Twitter from Bloomberg

From December 18, 2017

The feed is hosted on Periscope, the Twitter-owned live streaming service. See if this link works: or

By stuartfanning

2 replies

331 views

VM 18 DecVMPhil

RAF Mildenhall incident

I fast forwarded through NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News and it appears that there was no mention of it. To determine this I relied on seeing OTS elements and eyeballing the video footage....

By BM11

3 replies

595 views

RK 18 Dec - 19 DecRkolsen

ITV National News Presenters - The Official Thread

Who's where on ITV (for all of us)

Please read the rules in Phil is right - nobody is asking for this.

By ethanh05

8 replies

768 views

AS 20 DecAsa

The best news cock ups of the year

At least Deric Hartigan from Ireland AM is there with his windswept umbrella. The funniest one for me though was from RTV Nord because of the man in the pet shop with the funny laugh.

By A former member

6 replies

1,054 views

BK 22 Dec - 23 Decbkman1990

Friendly conversations at the end of programmes

Trashy topic, no one is interested, this is not DigitalSpy. Thread closed.

By TellyFan

2 replies

388 views

AS 22 DecAsa

Newscaster of the Year | 2017

Best TvForum type website Digital Spy

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By JamesWorldNews

19 replies

2,098 views

TR 23 Dec - 8 Jan 2018TROGGLES

Longest serving Regional Presenting Duo

For either ITV or BBC

Yeah I think they relaunched the show on the Monday with Lucy and had Tony on Location, then he went live on the Tuesday like you said above. I think Lucy tends to have Thursday and Fridays off...

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By RDJ

28 replies

2,882 views

DJ 29 Dec - 2 Jan 2018DJ Dave