South East Today

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BBC South East Today

Programme titles
Format Regional News
Presented by Geoff Clark
Beverley Thompson
(Main anchors)
Kaddy Lee-Preston
Kaye Forster
Nazaneen Ghaffar
(Weather presenters)
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

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:

[edit] Main anchors

[edit] Stand-ins

  • Polly Evans
  • Ceri Perkins
  • Natalie Graham
  • Rob Smith
  • John Young (Brighton Correspondent, shared with South Today)

[edit] Reporters

District Correspondents

  • Peter Whittlesea (Dover)
  • Natalie Graham (East Sussex, also presenter)
  • Simon Jones (Thanet)
  • John Young (Brighton, shared with South Today)

Specialist Correspondents

  • Yvette Austen (Social Affairs/Environment)
  • Neil Bell (Sport)
  • Colin Campbell (Home Affairs)
  • Mark Norman (Health/Environment)
  • Paul Siegert (Political/Transport, also presenter of The Politics Show South East)
  • Richard Smith (Business)

General reporters

  • Ria Chatterjee
  • Polly Evans (also presenter)
  • Caroline Feraday (also presenter)
  • Robin Gibson
  • Lynda Hardy
  • Nicola Haysler
  • Jon Hunt
  • Bryony Mansfield
  • Juliette Parkin (also presenter)
  • Ian Palmer (also presenter)
  • Ceri Perkins (also presenter)
  • Claudia Sermbezis (also presenter)
  • Sara Smith
  • Chrissie Reidy

[edit] Weather presenters

  • Kaddy Lee-Preston (chief presenter, also presents Inside Out South East)
  • Kaye Forster
  • Nazaneen Ghaffar

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] Video clips

[edit] References

  1. ^ "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. 
  2. ^ BBC axes well-known TV presenters, Kent Online, 12 June 2009
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