Weather Forecaster!!!

[echokilo]

Between regional and national TV, covering all channels, just HOW MANY weather forecasters are there and what do they do all day when not giving a 2 minute update every few hours? Surely we don't need so many? There are 100s and new ones every week!!

[boxtops]

There are some who work for the Met Office - the official weather forecasters - and the others all work for the local radio and TV stations, I guess.

[gness]

Spot on Boxy. Some are weather forecasters and work for organisations such as
The Met Office. Some are weather presenters working for a station and presenting the weather and I suppose other things.

[echokilo]

I get that - but really!! There seems to be a new one virtually every day and sometimes they are then never seen again!!! And the Beeb is the worst ...... meaning we are paying for them surely!?

[Baldric]

Are you proposing a cull echokilo?

[Dodger666]

I asked my local BBC TV station that very same question last week. I'm still waiting for a reply.

I also asked them why, since the studio underwent a multi thousand pound makeover almost two years ago, are there dozens of TV monitors on the wall above a desk behind the presenters. There are couple of chairs in front of the desk and I have never seen anyone sitting in these chairs. These monitors are all switched on and some showing the same picture. As we licence payers pay the electric bill I suppose they aren't too bothered.

[echokilo]

And this is my point Dodger ....... why should we be paying for all this!!!!

[Everhelpful]

It's the BBC where money is no object as long as it is not your own.!!

[tenrec]

We have a few here (North West) but Eno - well she is "HOT".

[factor-fiction]

They won't all be on the BBC payroll getting a week's pay for doing a 2 minute broadcast.
They will be self employed or work for the met office and will be paid for whatever they do. The BBC probably has a list of contractors and may offer work to the lowest bidder

[Everhelpful]

Sorry,I was replying to Dodger666's Post.

[factor-fiction]

I was referring to echokilo's post

[echokilo]

They simply don't seem to be answerable to anyone at all!!

[factor-fiction]

Isn't the BBC's budget being cut each year in real-terms, though Echokilo. They have to operate within budget. I'm sure there are still savings they could make though

[tonymclark]

The Weather Forecasters that work for the Met Office are paid by the Met Office, not the BBC, though the BBC will pay the Met Office for the weather service, just as they pay Camelot for the rights to broadcast the Lottery draw.

I met Micheal Fish a few years ago (I had to make replica of the weather map and magnetic clouds and sunshines for a short film) and he said when he joined the Met Office he was told to read the weather on TV, he didn't have a choice, it was part of his job. He light-heartedly said that if he had refused to read the weather on TV, he would more than likely have found himself working in a weather station in a remote part of the country...