On 24/08/2015 15:40, Len Wood wrote:
On Monday, 24 August 2015 11:56:50 UTC+1, Brian Lawrence wrote:
On 24/08/2015 09:28, Eskimo Will wrote:

"Brian Lawrence" wrote in message
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On 23/08/2015 13:43, Alan Gardiner wrote:


Will be interesting to see how this unfolds - and who gets the job.
Surprising.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office...recasting-cont
ract-213359729.html#kxWhf4P

Richard

Reading between the lines it seems to me that the BBC want a less
expensive
service; not surprising given the additional costs foisted on them by
the
current government (paying the licence fee for over 75s).

The BBC won't 'pay the licence fees', they just won't get that money any
more. It's a common description in the media too, but it's still
incorrect.

The Met Office have probably declined to tender as they consider such a
service would not meet their minimum quality criteria.

Do we know that the MO won't be tendering for the contract? IF they
really, really want to keep it they could put in a low bid.

It will be interesting to see who gets the job, if it is a New Zealand
company then we might see Dan Corbett back on our screens.

I'd imagine many of the current presenters will simply be signed up by
the new contractor.


The presenters are all Met Office employees. The MetO *could* loan them,
but they will then be demanding quite a bit of money in return. Could
actually be quite a nice earner LOL . A million for Kirkwood, but only
10p for Schafernacker :-)

The BBC have apparently said that they don't expect that the presenter
line up will change much. They are MO employees, but they work at the
BBC and are at liberty to resign from the MetO and join some other
organisation - Carol Kirkwood used to work for the BBC, then joined
The Weather Channel, then back to the BBC where she was assigned to the
MetO for training. She was an occasional non-weather presenter before
her weather career started.
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It is all very confusing.
Are they on the payroll of Met Office, but get paid extra by BBC?
Some of them seem to be more of a free agent. e.g. Carol Kirkwood.
BBC act as though they own them.

As I wrote above Ms Kirkwood was and/is employed by the BBC. She had
some presenting experience and had also worked for The Weather Channel,
so the Beeb sent her for Met Office training before her current run as
weather presenter. As a BBC employee she has fronted other programs.

Met Office might tell the BBC you can only have them at a price.
It will be strange indeed to have Met Office employees presenting
non-Met Office forecasts.

Individually they will of course want to maximise their income.

They are a real mixed bag of presenters.
Mugshots and a little of their backgrounds can be found he
http://www.bbc.com/weather/about/19119489

Len
Wembury

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