HA! That might have once been true in the days of Mother Beeb.
Ain't gonna happen no more.
Ma Beeb also stood as a sort of bastion of Standard English. Today, with the political correctness pressures of "embracing" the regions (the very last things I'd wish to embrace), all sorts of accents are to be heard. I find some very difficult to understand. Which might, of course, be my hearing.
Sky News has a coloured lady, Gillian, who has a beautiful English voice. She appears, often in tandem with a guy called Steve, who I detest; he plays (I hope he plays) the rôle of a teen who never grew up, what with his love for sci-fi, gadgets etc. I always await his saying "shall we?" at which point I yell and switch off, and return my interest to the Kellogs. I also wonder why it's deemed necessary to bring in two "celebs" to add their tuppence-worth to a news programme... it reduces everything to pap. One, an ex-weather girl, is always so deadly serious and intense in her delivery (for the silly as for the serious events of the day) and she is often accompanied by a coloured ex-athlete or something, whose greatest contribution to the day's news is his loud laughter at his own jokes.
All they need is Gillian. She is capable, very pleasant, and could run the entire show on her own, leaving out all the aggro and rubbish the other people contribute, a polution every bit as bad as the plastic waste the same channel keeps reminding us to stop producing. Throwing out some
deejays news readers would make for a good start!