South East Today
| BBC South East Today | |
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| Format | Regional news |
| Presented by | Polly Evans Rob Smith |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | BBC South East |
| Running time | Main bulletin: 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One South East |
| Original run | 3 September 2001 – present |
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| Related shows | BBC London News |
BBC South East Today is the BBC South East regional television news programme, serving Kent, East Sussex and the eastern fringes of Surrey. Prior to its launch on 3 September 2001, most of the viewers in the region received Newsroom South East, though some had been receiving South Today.
South East Today is produced and broadcast live from the BBC's South East broadcasting studios in Royal Tunbridge Wells with district reporters based at newsrooms in Brighton, Chatham, Hastings and Dover.
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[edit] Overview
Launched on 3 September 2001, South East Today airs eleven times a day on weekdays: 6 bulletins in the morning during BBC Breakfast, a brief mid-afternoon bulletin at 3pm, a 15-minute programme at 13:30, the main half-hour programme at 18:30, a 30-second update at 8pm and a seven-minute bulletin at 22:25. Four bulletins also air during the weekend: a lunchtime bulletin on Saturday, early evening bulletins on Saturday and Sunday and a late night bulletin on Sundays, following the BBC News at Ten. The times of these bulletins usually vary.
The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on digital satellite on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service.
Launched with a sole main presenter Laurie Mayer, the programme was briefly the centre of a minor BBC scandal, after Mayer resigned amid accusations of management bullying.[1] Mayer lost his case, but the managers concerned have since moved on.
The show then became double-headed, with Beverley Thompson (formerly the programme's Health Correspondent) and Giles Dilnot presenting, with John Young filling in for absences. In 2004, Geoff Clark joined the programme from ITV Meridian and Giles Dilnot moved to reporting for BBC2's The Daily Politics. Clark and Thompson presented the programme together for five years until their departure in mid-September 2009.[2]
The current main presenters are Rob Smith and Polly Evans with weather presenters Kaddy Lee-Preston and Rachel Mackley. The stand-in presenters for the programme are John Young, Ceri Perkins and Natalie Graham with former national weather forecaster Michael Fish a stand-in weather presenter. The programme's editor is Quentin Smith, deputised by Michael Gravesande.
The main transmitters that relay the news are Bluebell Hill, Heathfield, Tunbridge Wells, Hastings, Dover, Hastings and Margate. Viewers in west Kent have the option of either viewing BBC London News via Crystal Palace or BBC South East Today via Bluebell Hill/Heathfield transmitters.
After its digital switchover in March 2012, the Whitehawk Hill transmitter[3] (which broadcasts to the Brighton & Hove area) will change to carrying South East Today instead of BBC South as currently.[4]
[edit] Presenters
Currently, the South East Today on-air team includes the following:
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[edit] Former presenters
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[edit] Reporters
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[edit] News correspondents
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[edit] Specialist correspondents
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Reporters marked with an asterisk also act as newscasters
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Mayer loses BBC sacking case". BBC News. 16 October 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3197868.stm. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
- ^ BBC axes well-known TV presenters, Kent Online, 12 June 2009
- ^ "Whitehawk Hill". Digital UK. http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/when_do_i_switch/meridian/whitehawk_hill. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
- ^ "Brighton transmitters will be in BBC South East from 7th March 2012". ukfree.tv. http://www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051862. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
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