I agree, Central News is pretty poor at the moment particularly the weekend bulletins which are just full of woolly filler stories and no real 'whats happened today'.
I've said it before and I'll say it again but Bob Warman should retire - he is mumbling and stuttering his way through every show - and Sameena is just awful too - there is hardly a sentence she speaks without stumbling over words. If ever Bob and Sam have to improvise to kill time it's just cringeworthy.
Not sure what the other regions are like but Central News is in a sorry state.
I've no problem with Bob, I just feel he's not partnered up in the best duo with Sameena. I feel he excels when he's on his own or with Lucy.
Sameena I find very wooden and monotone with not a lot of personality, though when she is partnered with Matt I feel she can bounce off him a little more.
Central has suffered from its most popular presenters and reporters being poached and sacked in recent years. It's just a shame Llewella Bailey isn't still around as she was excellent with Bob.
It is. BBC Midlands is then time-shifting Question of Sport. Similar thing happening for a BBC North East & Cumbria opt on the Scottish referendum. Wonder if we'll see Birmingham pretending to be network?
I suspect that Brum and Newcastle could well both run their own copy of QoS - it would seem to be a bit overkill to set that up pseudo networking for one programme, particularly for regions that aren't really associated with each other.
In ye olden days of analogue, Newcastle and Leeds for their network feed via Manchester, so it was a fairly easy bit of switching for Manchester Comms to put Manchester pres output onto the feeds for Leeds and Newcastle when they were playing at network. Brum to Newcastle will probably need a contribution circuit and somebody sitting in Newcastle to opt back at the end (and improvise a breakdown routine if that contrib circuit should happen to fail), and if they are sat there, they might as well play out QoS from their server, and save any cost associated with booking a circuit from The Mailbox.
That said, networking might simplify some of the ancillary stuff like subtitles - I know in the past regional time shifts haven't always been able to include subtitles, but that may be because it was an off air recording.
So, how did the timeshifting work last night then? Did they timeshift the whole of the rest of the evening and join News Channel later or did they drop a programme and rejoin the network after Question of Sport?
