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Well, ofcourse there is weather today, but on BBC London the newsreader is doing the lot, including the weather, but there is a short, ten seconds or so, update with moving graphics.
By the looks of things it should have been Wendy Hurrell on weather, because she has tweeted to the effect that she has managed to break the weather computer, so, in the building, but not able to do the forecast. I assume this means south. southeast, and east are similarly affected.
By the looks of things it should have been Wendy Hurrell on weather, because she has tweeted to the effect that she has managed to break the weather computer, so, in the building, but not able to do the forecast. I assume this means south. southeast, and east are similarly affected.
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I'm sure the OP can retune to a multitude of radio stations which provide weather bulletins, including his own local BBC station where he could have heard Ms Hurrell at x25 past each hour.
But the OP wasn't talking about local radio, he/she was talking about television.
I didn't need to retune. There was a perfecly adequate 10 second weather forecast read by Victoria Hollins, over moving graphics of the rain sweeping east.
I only mentioned it because I thought people like Martin might have been interested to know Wendy Hurrell was at NBH, but unable to stand infront of the big screen for some reason- eg screen itself broken, or the little clicker to move to next image not working. Whatever it was it didn't stop a 10 second moving graphic bieng prepared.
Yes dear, the point is that they're being utilised better elsewhere, which is on BBC local radio.
The Breakfast regional bulletins are watched by a minority of viewers, so the newsreader reading a script for 10 seconds on one bulletin because the gallery couldn't get the pre-recorded forecast on-air isn't a major issue.
You do seem to have got out of bed the wrong side this morning.
They're preparing, producing and presenting up to nine weather forecasts on BBC local radio across a much larger area than before last Autumn using less staff on the early shift.
TV and online forecasts are pre-recorded before hand so they can concentrate on radio with the exception of the lunchtime BBC London News bulletin from the London hub.
That saves me a letter to acting DG Tim Davie!
Joke, honestly, joke!
Have they actually laid off some presenters then?
Now, now, you know all official BBC complaints must be directed to either The Daily Mail or ITV
BBC Radio Norfolk, and I'm pretty certain Radio Suffolk as well, previously used the services of Weatherquest, an independent forecasting service based in Norwich, headed by ex-BBC and Anglia TV weatherman Jim Bacon. They presumably paid a fee for this, so it's obviously more cost-effective to get it done 'in house'.
Use a web based tool such as raintoday.co.uk Anyone relying on tv for accurate weather when they have internet access is living in the past
Possibly but I'm talking about when they specifically mention the town where I live and it's on their weather map.
I don't live in the Shetlands or Outer Hebrides so why do I need to know the weather there as I have no plans to go to either place, beautiful though I'm sure they are.
They mention the Shetlands etc presumably because it is a national forecast. Unless you live close to those two areas they would be unlikely to mention them on a regional English forecast (and doesn't Scotland only have one broadcast region anyway - so any regional forecast there is going to cover the ehole of Scotland).
Or the tea leaves or crystal ball.
After being discussed on Digital Spy of course