TV News Readers

[whiskeryron]

In these days of job cuts can someone explain to me when we watch the news on TV why there are usually 2 persons taking turns to read the latest news from a prompter, after all it's not exactly rocket science is it ?

[gingejbee]

For me, it's NO to two presenters, and standing presenters and over-animated ones, too - the ones who wave their arms and keep nodding and shaking their heads (that George bloke on BBC1 for example)

[Sqad]

Ron....I agree.......if I want to hear the news, then that is it....the news......and that can and used to be done by one person.

I am not into the "personal, feely feely chit chat" that goes on by a duo presentation.

Did anyone see Sky News on Womens International´day when there were three, a woman to front the programme, one to read the news and the other to "do the papers?"

I felt like instructing them to "get on with it"

[anotheoldgit]

One newsreader could read the news, read the Sports news, and tell the weather forecast as well.

Don't tell me the newsreader could not cope, because on one channel a few years ago, the female newsreader could read the news and preform a striptease at the same time.

Now that was multi-tasking.

[LoftyLottie]

But please don't bring back Angela Rippon or Moira Stewart or Jan Leaming, no, no no.

And definitely not Trevor McDoughnut!!

[237SJ]

I think they`ve got the duel newsreaders idea from the States. They always have two people reading the news (usually male and female) and they always have to comment on every article they read out, even when they haven`t a clue what they`re talking about. I was watching NBC and they were reading an article about a dangerous new drug on the clubbing scene. When they finished, the woman newsreader said "Wow, that sounds really innocuous"!

[Joolee1980]

Steve 5 - BBC news at 10 (and 6 too?) is a single presenter.

But then there's all the over-to-someone else stuff as well.