BBC management seem to have "won" the breakfast round of the current one-day strike by the NUJ. On Radio 4, a Today programme (albeit truncated by an hour) was there, with Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. On 5Live Ian Payne appeared instead of Nicky Campbell. Many will have been surprised by Ian's side-kick for the morning: Julia Bradbury. On World Service, where the key redundancies are driving the strike, it was archive time, with news read by Editor, World Service News & Current Affairs, Andrew Whitehead. On BBC 1, Gavin Grey repeated his November performance, but there were no regional opt-outs - overnight, a loop of news bulletins fronted in the Far East kept the News Channel going.
Still there's daytime and evening to come. Question marks over The World At One and You and Yours; PM, Any Questions and The World Tonight are goners. And management are a bit twitchy about the Proms - the NUJ has recruited in all sorts of unexpected areas, after BECTU's rather easier line on pension changes at the end of last year.
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