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epm-84
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Are national ITV weather presenters appearing more on regional weather forecasts now? It seems everyone except Sian Lloyd has done a mixture of regional and national forecasts in the last couple of weeks. It might even be that Sian Lloyd has as well but it's just I don't know about it.
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ITV Weather presenters based in London, including Manali Lukha, now cover regional weather for ITV in the week. Sian Lloyd has done regional weather aswell.
So if Lucy Kite from ITV Central is off, a presenter in London will cover, however this is not the case at weekends, when certain presenters from certain regions cover x amount of regions.
Seemed hilariously out of place having Lucy Verasamy doing a forecast for the Border region last week. No place names mentioned or anything, to almost imply "I don't know the area so a vague forecast",
Granada had Kerrie Gosney last weekend. Now Kerrie quite often does Granada weather on some weekdays to cover what would would be Fred Talbot's shifts. However, at weekends for the past few years it's either been someone based at Granada or if not whoever is doing Central's forecast (usually Emma Jesson but occasionally James Wright or Lucy Kite.)
Lucy Verasamy did manage to give some North West place names when she covered a Granada forecast. Alex Beresford only managed "The Isle of Man" while on occasions when Ross Hutchinson has covered Granada he hasn't managed to name one place and apparently he went to school in Oldham!
Looks apart she is a very nice person too by all accounts.
He's relief weather presenter for both Daybreak and the later ITV national bulletins. Laura Tobin is Daybreak weather presenter, Alex Beresford was offered the job but he rejected it.
I agree that it's silly too. I think they should have one Weather forecaster per Region. If the Forecaster is off for any reason then surely the Newsreaders can do the Weather...or maybe they should scrap the Forecasters totally?
I do enjoy watching Alex. I hope that he gets around for quite some time.:D
That series was a Weather Channel production for Channel 4.
I imagine if it was a Channel 4 production they would have used Liam Dutton as presenter.
I didn't know that Channel 4 produced any programmes?
That is all.
It looks like in the 'Northern' regions (Granada/Calendar/Tyne Tees/Border) all weekend forecasts are either done by Kerrie Gosney or Emma Jesson now. I wish the 'or Emma Jesson' bit didn't apply!
Arnt you too keen on Emma then?
I prefer someone who gives more airtime to the forecast and doesn't waffle so much about photos people have sent in and I know a lot of viewers in the Granada region share that view.
She did the 23rd Nov/24th Nov and 30th Nov/1st Dec for the 4 Northern regions, with Kerrie Gosney doing the 4 Northern regions last weekend.
Emma's Tyne Tees forecast from 1st December is still on your local news site: http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2013-12-01/emma-jesson-brings-you-the-sunday-night-video-forecast-for-the-ne/
Any presenter can do any forecast from any site, and the files can be pushed around the network to wherever they are needed.
Indeed, for weather it can be done from any studio. However, if a regional newsreader covers the national news at the weekend which people such as Lucy Meacock, Andrea Byrne and Jonathan Hill have done then they do need to go to the ITN studio at Millbank.