Dianne Oxberry will be the only TV weathergirl to carry on presenting forecasts on BBC North West Tonight after the round of sweeping cuts announced this week.
The radical shake-up means that Eno Eruotor and Heather Stott will no longer work as weathergirls on the news show – although they will keep their other roles at the BBC.
Eruotor, who presented North West Tonight’s late weather bulletins, will continue her work as a ‘multi-platform’ forecaster working on TV, radio and the web, a BBC spokeswoman confirmed.
Breakfast and lunchtime weather presenter Stott will carry on presenting the mid-morning show on BBC Radio Manchester.
BBC bosses had to remove two of the three weathergirls from North West Tonight as part of the latest round of BBC cuts, aimed at saving £650m over the next six years while the licence fee is frozen.
The cuts will see 1,000 BBC staff moving to Salford MediaCity – on top of the 2,300 already in the process of moving.
But North West Tonight will lose its daily 3pm bulletins, as well as its Saturday lunchtime slot. The cuts also meant bosses had to take two of the three weather presenters on North West tonight off screen and they have now decided it will be Oxberry who carries on in the role.
Outlook unsettled for TV weathergirls
Radio Manchester, meanwhile, is to shed 10 jobs under the plans – which aim to save the broadcaster one fifth of its total budget. The channel will be expected to share more output with other radio stations, particularly in the evening and at weekends.
Three of the eight jobs on the regional current affairs programme Inside Out North West will also be slashed, part of 40pc cuts to news programming. Local sport shows will also be shaken up, though the BBC is not giving details for now.
Director General Mark Thompson said the BBC would be smaller but would spend money more effectively as a result of the plans, which will see the corporation shed 2,000 jobs by 2017, selling off buildings and showing more repeats.
The National Union of Journalists said staff were ‘stunned’ and warned of strike action ‘before Christmas’.
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If I do watch the NW weather on BBC Dianne Oxberry will do for me.
She's much the best out of the three for my money.
And? Far too many weather girls/boys on the TV, one is enough surely for the local news?
My husband will be devastated he loves Heather and her outfits, she always looks like she is going to a really posh wedding.
We not get rid of overpaid managers instead of getting rid of good workers.
why do we need any weather presenters? Surely it's not going to hurt a newsreader to give the weather report in 30 seconds at the end of a news bulletin.
So we are in for a lifetime of Diane 'We're all doomed' Oxberry are we?
Doesn't matter how good the weather has been she always turns it into a forthcoming apocalypse.
Why doesn't the BBC just have one slide instead of spending millions on the 'rambling' weather forecast we see now?
And she just happens to be the prettiest. Hmm.
As long as Eamonn & Jimmy don't go.
We know who to blame for the forthcoming big freeze, Ms D Oxberry. The beeb should have kept Eno, she was so good for the job.
I for one want the BBC to be left alone. I'd absolutely hate to see TV and radio solely commercially driven because people would no longer get a good diverse range of programmes. Intelligent journalism is the foundation of democracy.
Shame really I prefer Eno. If the BBC wanted to save money then getting rid of two long stayers would have been better. Bad enough watching them preening as if some kind of catwalk.
Great news.
Can we now have Dianne back on BBC Radio Manchester, preferably with Eamonn in their early morning slot. Happy days.
Why have a weyher person at all?
The presenter of the programme could read out the report.
And that's presenter in the singular. We don't need two presenters.
The BBC will continue to waste millions of aour money, just slightly fewer millions than they do now.
Dianne who regularly tells us to " just look outside your window"
....can do do that for meself.
They're Standard definition weather presenters in a HD World
I like Heather but she's too loud. Especially at 6.30am :oO
Ooh the National Union Of Journalists are threatening to go on strike.
And what will the BBC do without their journalists? Show more repeats? Out of luck NUJ, that's what they're going to do anyway.
None of them do weather as well as Jeremy Paxman:
"Eastern parts will mainly avoid the rain, except for those that don't. Western areas will be cloudy with rain except for those places that don't have rain..."
Done in ten seconds. Or even quicker
"Take an umbrella with you tomorrow..."
A very well known video site has a clip of that
What are we going to do when we can't play "Eno's Blouse And Skirt Colour Dual Forecast" any more? Just for the record, if she turns up on another programme, these are the odds for picking the colour with the correct item of clothing:
Pink - evens
Gold / yellow / dark blue - 2/1
Red - 5/2
Black 3/1
Silver / grey / light blue - 4/1
Orange - 10/1
12/1 bar
You can go 'each way' for half the odds, just choosing a colour and not the clothing item.
Typical BBC - nobody sacked, 2 of them "re-deployed". All this "multi-platform" nonsense. In the commercial sector Dianne would do the lot.
I remember the original weather girls being marginally fatter than these three.
I'd get rid of the lot. The young girl who did the weather while the Ox was on her jollies was by far the best, the prettiest, the most natural of the lot! And she could play football!
I understand the need for a large team on the main bulletins. But why on earth does Radio Manchester need four presenters for a bulletin that is only a few minutes long?
Why oh why does Dianne Oxbury and Emo have to DANCE about (left leg in left leg out) when they give the forcast.It gets right up my nose,so much so that as soon as they appear now it is channel switch for me.