South East Today
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| BBC South East Today | |
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| Format | Regional News |
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| Presented by | Geoff Clark Beverley Thompson (Main anchors) Kaddy Lee-Preston Kaye Forster Nazaneen Ghaffar (Weather presenters) |
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| Producer(s) | BBC South East |
| Running time | Main bulletin: 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One South East |
| Original run | 3 September 2001 – present |
BBC South East Today is BBC South East's regional television news programme, serving Kent, East Sussex, and Essex. Prior to its launch on 3 September 2001, most of the viewers in the region formerly received Newsroom South East, though some had been previously receiving South Today. Eleven bulletins are broadcast each weekday: 6 bulletins in the morning during BBC Breakfast, a 4-minute update at 15:00, a 15-minute programme at 13:30, the half-hour main programme at 18:30, a short headline update at 20:00 and a 6-minute update at 22:25. There are also five-minute evening updates at weekends.
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[edit] Overview
Most of the viewers in these areas formerly received Newsroom South East, though some had been previously receiving South Today. Launched on 3 September 2001, it goes out ten times a day from Monday to Friday: 6 bulletins in the morning during BBC Breakfast, a bulletin at 15:25, a 15-minute programme at 13:30, the half-hour main programme at 18:30, and a 5-minute update at 22:25. There are short evening updates at weekends.
The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on digital satellite channel 983 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service.
Launched with the single presenter Laurie Mayer, the show 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 was 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.
The current main presenters are Geoff Clark and Beverley Thompson, with weather from Kaddy Lee-Preston, Kaye Forster and Nazaneen Ghaffar. Former national weather forecaster Michael Fish often fills in for holiday absences. Geoff Clark was the anchorman for the South East edition of ITV Meridian's regional news programme Meridian Tonight for a number of years before being headhunted by the BBC. Geoff was unhappy with Meridian's plan to broadcast Meridian Tonight (South East) from new studios in Hampshire and was reluctant to relocate.
Rob Smith and John Young fill in for Geoff Clark and Ceri Perkins, Polly Evans and Natalie Graham fill in for Beverly Thompson. Current chief anchors Clark and Thompson are due to be replaced during Autumn 2009 by Rob Smith and Polly Evans although it's understood Thompson will continue to work for the programme while Clark will leave the BBC.[2]
The programme editor is Quentin Smith, deputised by Michael Gravesande.
The programme is broadcast live from the Tunbridge Wells newsroom (in the same building as BBC Radio Kent), and there are also studios in Brighton, with permanent contribution circuits from Chatham, Hastings and Dover. South East Today also has the use of a dedicated outside broadcast truck.
[edit] The team
Currently, the South East Today on-air team includes the following:
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District Correspondents
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Specialist Correspondents
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General reporters
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- ^ "Mayer loses BBC sacking case". BBC News. 16 October, 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3197868.stm. Retrieved on 2008-04-07.
- ^ BBC axes well-known TV presenters, Kent Online, 12 June 2009
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