BBC World News - to 14th January 2013

A wee bit of a blooper there. Chris Rogers threw to Sue Thearle in Salford for the sports news, and she wasn't ready, and was shouting out to someone out of shot and fixing her hair. She then stared at the camera forabout four secs before eventually speaking!

In fact, is this Sue's first shift on World from Salford?

I'd forgotten just how good some of the extra features programmes at the weekends are. Horizons with Adam Shaw is airing at this very minute. Fascinating digest of environmental and sustainability issues. Adam Shaw does it justice.

I think it may be Sue's first shift from Salford itself! Haven't seen her presenting the sport from Salford yet at all since it started coming from there back in March.

Who is the main sports presenter doing the London overnight shift now? It would be really helpful if I could find out who is the main presenter and who is the regular reliefs. (I am asking so I can correct the wiki page). Thanks.

Separate World rota thread?

I don't think that World viewers should have to trawl through all the tedium on a pres board.

Sanj Shetty, Matt Gooderick and Adnan Nawaz more or less equally share the duties, although Adnan has been more on newscasting of late, as opposed to sports reading.

Watching The Hub at the moment and suddenly realizing that the constantly animating background now looks tired, washed out and very distracting. The appearance is not quite as *crisp* as some of the other brands. The red could do with turning up a notch.

Or just a separate BBC News Presenters/Rotas thread that could cover World, NC, nationals etc. and a BBC World Presentation thread?

LOL. One can't win!

I think my general approach was that the BBC World News thread has a small enough "readership" to justify covering ALL BBC World issues (pres / schedules / presenters / rota / technical content / the lot) all in the same thread. (Just like happens with the CNN thread.)

BBC World viewers outside of the UK won't necessarily appreciate having to Wade through tons of other stuff amongst the other generic BBC threads to find comment about World News, or, at least, that's what some members have given me to understand??

I may be wrong? I usually am!

I don't own the Forum. Was just trying to be a bit proactive, based on some of the comments I'd read somewhere. Mods please feel free to correct/guide/align me otherwise. Cheers. J.

I think this is perfectly reasonable. I think separating this into two threads would push the threads to the bottom of the pile.

I know nothing that has happened on BBC World recently, programme wise or graphics wise.

This imo is evidence that this is too rota happy in here.

Also if anyone could fill me in I'd be most pleased.

Perhaps the move to BH shall be a nice moment to banish rota chat forever.

I can always hope.

Is there a competition to keep threads on the top of the pile? Maybe we should scrap all the threads and just have a TV Home thread and a Newsroom thread?

Anyway, I doubt very much a World Rota thread would drop down very long at all, not with the obsession this place has with logging Tim Wilcox's every movement.

What exactly happened in that scenario with Clarence Mitchell? I've seen it being discussed before but can't quite make sense of it. Did he fall asleep on air whilst doing the overnight shift?!

As I recall, he allegedly fell asleep somewhere in the building during his shift. The presenters carry pagers with them so the gallery can get hold of them at short notice - so I assume he failed to respond to that and one of our very own members had to step in and read the news with a moment's notice.