UK Met Office loses BBC Weather contract

dublinman1990

The BBC is rumored to have lost their lucrative contract with the UK Met Office that has provided their weather forecasts for the past 10 years.

There is more details about the story here below.

http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/met-office-loses-bbc-weather-forecasting-contract-11363999646544

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/08/bbc-weather-changes-storm-in-teacup.html

I'm frankly a bit shocked about this news myself. I always thought that the BBC weather forecasters are the most accurate out of the UK jurisdiction. The other forecasts on ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News are now a bit light on their weather output nowadays.

The graphics out of BBC Weather are excellent though. It will be a shame to lose them to a foriegn weather provider if one takes the contract. I wonder what employment conditions are the current BBC weather presenters are on now. It will be a shame to lose them of the BBC and got to one of the light weather forecasters on one of the other UK channels.

icdg

You've phrased it wrong, you mean the UK Met Office are about to lose their contract with the BBC. It is the BBC that are the purchaser and the Met Office that are the supplier.

icdg

Now confirmed:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34031785

Harry Palmr

Daily Mail is worried about foreign weather.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3207392/Met-Office-fury-BBC-gives-contract-worth-millions-foreigners.html

When I heard this I assumed another UK company would get the gig but who else is there?

Sam Russell

Our met office could do the gig.:)

brick man

Siobhan Ryan would look well on BBC

icdg

Renamed thread as this is confirmed and also to correct who is losing the contract with whom

dublinman1990

Sorry Mod. I should have sent the apology yesterday but I couldn't login because of redirect errors.

Dozen Wicked Words

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Daily Mail is worried about foreign weather.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3207392/Met-Office-fury-BBC-gives-contract-worth-millions-foreigners.html

When I heard this I assumed another UK company would get the gig but who else is there?

Not sure about foreign providers but there are already independent weather companies that provide regional weather from time to time. The BBC Eastern region often has presenters from this lot on

http://www.weatherquest.co.uk/team.php

formerly scottish paddy

Met Eireann should go for it!!:D

STB.

My money is on the Naked News "weather team" winning the contract.