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(May 2006)

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Time Warp
What an embarassing moment for Louisa Preston there, when the whole bulletin went tits up; not only did the top story fail to play three times at different points in the bulletin and she repeated reading the same story all of those times before the VT failed on every attempt, but the autocue also failed at the end of the bulletin and Louisa was forced to read from her script - some of what she said didn't even make any sense. Due to this, the bulletin ended about 20 seconds prematurely, and a BBC London bumper appeared on-screen.

Although the bulletin was awful, full marks to Louisa who was apologetic and handled the situation in a professional manner.
CH
chris
Time Warp posted:
What an embarassing moment for Louisa Preston there, when the whole bulletin went tits up; not only did the top story fail to play three times at different points in the bulletin and she repeated reading the same story all of those times before the VT failed on every attempt, but the autocue also failed at the end of the bulletin and Louisa was forced to read from her script - some of what she said didn't even make any sense. Due to this, the bulletin ended about 20 seconds prematurely, and a BBC London bumper appeared on-screen.

Although the bulletin was awful, full marks to Louisa who was apologetic and handled the situation in a professional manner.


There is a whole thread for BBC LONDON news!
JA
jamesmd
It's quite a few pages back, though. Please do keep your knickers fully ironed and not at all twisted, young man.
MR
mrwilliams
I see what you mean, she did handle the situation brilliantly.
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RT
rts Founding member
mrwilliams posted:
I see what you mean, she did handle the situation brilliantly.
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I thought she did bloody well. The amount of stuff being shouted at down her ear she did very well in not getting overly flustered. Certainly glad I wasn't in her shoes!

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