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Under one shop (June 2014)

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GE
Gareth E
Looks like the breakfast shows will be picking up the rolling news rather than providing a postmortem. There is no way this will be wrapped up by 6.


. . . which is what was always expected really. The BBC Scotland overnight programme was always scheduled to run through to 9.15am. And the network programme is now running through until 9am as well.
DV
dvboy
I like how they briefly replaced the ticker with rotating results (%) on BBC.

The Inverclyde result has caused some problems, sometimes rounded to 49/51% and other times 50/50%
WH
whoiam989
When Huw says they're going to a news break, BBC World News goes to ads for a few minutes and then goes to Mike Embley for the headlines.


Thing is Huw introduces the news summary - and then Carole Walker also introduces the news summary. If Carole just said 'thanks Huw' and read the first headline it would stop the two introductions.


In the Asia-Pacific feed... when Huw introduces the news summary, BBCWN go to weather then Mike Embley for a short summary.


In the early hours of the coverage in the same area, they took promos, though.
CM
Col Mustard
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Good count percentage comparison from the beeb
WW
WW Update
C-SPAN here in the U.S. is carrying the BBC's domestic feed, with the local (British) time on the screen and UK news updates.
RS
Rob_Schneider
SkY projecting a NO win now.
CM
Col Mustard
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IN
Independent
In the US, the coverage was sparse. CNN was showing a film for the last few hours so almost no coverage. A spectacular failure. Fox News and MSNBC had more live coverage than CNN/US. Fox would simulcast Sky occasionally.
In Canada: CBC had live coverage an hour here and there since the flagship newscast is replayed for several hours during overnight Eastern Time. CTV had live coverage every 1/2 hour because their flagship newscast is 1/2 hour long, which is replayed every hour between 11pm and 6 am ET. Both the French news channels covered it too and RDI is live for the rest of the overnight unlike the CBC. There's great interest in Quebec. CPAC (Canadian C-SPAN) is simulcasting BBC News Channel (clock included).
Al Jazeera covered it but spent most of its time on other stories.
Last edited by Independent on 19 September 2014 6:01am - 2 times in total
AN
Andrew Founding member
BBC missed the Edinburgh declaration there, STV carried it live. Now they've already forecast a no result it seems they are less bothered about taking the declarations.
GE
Gareth E
Ugh, ITV. Dear me
SC
scottishtv Founding member
BBC missed the Edinburgh declaration there, STV carried it live. Now they've already forecast a no result it seems they are less bothered about taking the declarations.

A tricky decision. Aberdeenshire significant because it's Salmond's back yard, City of Edinburgh significant because it's a hefty chunk of voters. Appears BBC Scotland took Edinburgh live and then ran Aberdeenshire, network did it the other way round.
WW
WW Update
In the US, the coverage was sparse. CNN was showing a film for the last few hours so almost no coverage. A spectacular failure.


CNN is finally simulcasting CNN International -- as normally scheduled at this time.

What an embarrassment!

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