"Grover" wrote in message


“Together with Bill Giles, my senior weather broadcaster, we would
regularly go to the American Meteorological Society annual conference
to look for new techniques and ideas.

“It was a case of ’style over content’, which was fine for the USA –
but not for the UK.

“So, when in 2001 the BBC Weather Centre’s ownership passed from the
presentation department to the news division, I wondered how long it
would be before this sort of graphics would be forced on the screen,
and style became all.

I left the BBC the same year.

Bill retired as Senior Broadcaster from the Met Office in January 2000
after leading the team of Broadcast Meteorologists since 1983. Since his
retirement in January 2000, Bill continues to advise on broadcast
meteorology.

From a search of the BBC.

(I was wondering if the reason he left was anything to do with this sort
of thing. Apparently it left the door open though.)

“Finally, the project leader and his team responsible for this error
of judgement should consider their positions!”

I would have loved to have seen someone with the gall to throw down his
clicker or whatever they use on that toy and say: "4-git! I'm orf!"

Someone on a wet and windy BBC rooftop?

Not likely.

Those girls would jump through hoops.


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