BBC News (TV Channel) - News Presenters

News Presenters

For more details on this topic, see List of BBC newsreaders and reporters.

Since December 2007, the main regular presenters on the channel have been Simon McCoy, Carrie Gracie, Matthew Amroliwala, Jane Hill, Jon Sopel, Emily Maitlis, Louise Minchin, Huw Edwards, Ben Brown, Joanna Gosling and Chris Eakin. The main weekend presenters include Tim Willcox, Maxine Mawhinney, Nicholas Owen, Clive Myrie and Annita McVeigh. Most of these presenters also regularly stand in during the week.

Rico Hizon (reporting from Singapore), Babita Sharma and Kasia Madera are the main overnight presenters on the channel, appearing on Newsday and generic BBC News bulletins. These programmes are simulcast with BBC World News and either BBC One or BBC Two. Deborah Mackenzie regularly presents at weekends and in place of Sharma and Madera, while Rebecca Pike and Rachel Hodges also appear in these slots. Naga Munchetty, Komla Dumor and Martine Dennis present the BBC World News five o'clock hour, which is also broadcast on the News Channel and BBC One.

The main relief presenters are Martine Croxall, Gavin Esler (BBC News at Five), Sophie Long (mainly weekday afternoons), Rachel Schofield (Monday mornings), Tim Willcox and Julian Worricker (Friday afternoons), while Fiona Armstrong, Ellie Crisell, Ben Geoghagen, Roger Johnson, Kasia Madera, Chris Rogers, Babita Sharma, Julia Somerville, Sue Thearle and Carole Walker also fill in for regular presenters. Armstrong, Somerville and Walker present as part of the BBC's push to "ensure it the best range of faces". They most frequently appear during holidays.

The simulcasting of the main national news bulletins has led to the presenters of those bulletins appearing on the channel, including Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce, George Alagiah, Sophie Raworth, Kate Silverton and Mishal Husain. The main Breakfast presenters have also appeared on the channel since it was first launched as a simulcast programme in 2000, with the current presenters being Bill Turnbull, Susanna Reid (Mondays to Wednesdays), Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt (Thursdays, Ftidays and weekends).

Zeinab Badawi presents the BBC World News programme Reporters on the channel, while Esler presents Dateline London. Stephen Sackur appears on Hardtalk, which is aired weeknights and at weekends, while Badawi, Gracie and Sarah Montague provide cover for him. Spencer Kelly presents the technology news programme Click. Today host Evan Davis presents The Bottom Line, and Victoria Derbyshire appears on Victoria Derbyshire Interviews. Dominic Byrne presents Newsbeat's Oddbox.

During a major news event one or more of the main news presenters may be sent to present live for the channel from the scene of the story, where they will conduct interviews with the people involved, question correspondents, introduce related reports and also give general information on the story, much as a reporter sent to cover a story would. The presenters often have expertise in the story they are sent to cover, for example, former Paris correspondent Jon Sopel presented coverage of the 2007 French presidential elections, while channel presenters and former reporters Ben Brown and Clive Myrie were dispatched to Cairo and Tripoli during the Middle East uprisings.