South East Today
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| BBC South East Today | |
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| Format | Regional News |
| Presented by | Rob Smith Polly Evans |
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| Producer(s) | BBC South East |
| Running time | Main bulletin: 30 minutes |
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| Original channel | BBC One South East |
| Original run | 3 September 2001 – present |
BBC South East Today is the BBC South East 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.
South East Today is produced and broadcast live from the BBC's South East broadcasting studios in 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 & 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 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. Clark and Thompson presented the programme until their departure from the programme in mid-September 2009.[2]
The current main presenters are Rob Smith and Polly Evans, with weather from Kaddy Lee-Preston, Kaye Forster and Nazaneen Ghaffar. Former national weather forecaster Michael Fish often fills in for holiday absences. John Young fills in for Rob Smith and Ceri Perkins & Natalie Graham fill in for Polly Evans. The programme editor is Quentin Smith, deputised by Michael Gravesande.
[edit] Presenters
Currently, the South East Today on-air team includes the following:
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Reporters marked with an asterisk also act as newscasters.
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[edit] References
- ^ "Mayer loses BBC sacking case". BBC News. 16 October, 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3197868.stm. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
- ^ BBC axes well-known TV presenters, Kent Online, 12 June 2009
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