Thursday, February 20, 2020

Two controllers, different approaches

At Radio 4, hirsuite Controller Mohit Bakaya continues to let the Times Radio Child Catcher Stig Abell prowl the corridors of Broadcasting House, tapping up want-away presenters, on his promenades to and from presenting on Front Row.

At Radio 5 Live, Heidi Dawson has merely circulated an internal ad for a new weekend presenter for Up All Night. This will be a part-time fixed term contract for someone to broadcast every Saturday and Sunday from 0100 to 0500, filling the space left by Dotun Adebayo's move to weeknights.

But it's going to be a very different show. "The expected volume of live content is 15 minutes per hour". 

Funnily enough, on a News and Sports channel, the successful candidate "may be required to respond to breaking and developing news stories".  In the same paragraph: "Formal journalism training is not a requirement".

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