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BBC News 24

(January 2007)

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RO
Ronant
Moz posted:
Are countdowns back this morning, sans Kaplinsky or otherwise?

No countdown at 10, went straight to Tim and Maxine from the Weather. For some reason Breakfast was on till 9, so at that point there was a slightly untidy handover from Breakfast to News 24.
ST
Stuart
Ronant posted:
For some reason Breakfast was on till 9, so at that point there was a slightly untidy handover from Breakfast to News 24.

Yes, I noticed that too. Inexplicably the final regional opts on Breakfast are at 9:03 each morning. If they leave the handover to N24 until then it looks very messy indeed.
NE
Newsroom
Things are not quite right this morning at News 24.

11am hour, no countdown, no titles, and a complete mess to boot!

They also played full titles at 10.30.

Anyone know what's going on?
NT
nothanks
Computer problems.

Big computer problems.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
nothanks posted:
Computer problems.

Big computer problems.


I wonder if this is connected to the big problems BBC World were experiencing earlier on this morning? They had several record bulletins before finally going live again at 0900 GMT. It seems rather strange that both News 24 and World are having technical difficulties at the same time.
RO
Ronant
itsrobert posted:
nothanks posted:
Computer problems.

Big computer problems.


I wonder if this is connected to the big problems BBC World were experiencing earlier on this morning? They had several record bulletins before finally going live again at 0900 GMT. It seems rather strange that both News 24 and World are having technical difficulties at the same time.

It's probably also the reason why Breakfast was broadcast on News 24 right up until 9am.
MO
Moz
So is this why we've not been getting countdowns? Perhaps it's nothing to do with Ms Kaplinsky.
ST
Stuart
Well they now have the clock and the ticker, no astons though.

I noticed the weather was late. Lucky Dan Corbett can talk the "hind-legs off a donkey" and can fill time extreemly well.

They can get by without a countdown and titles at midday by going live to Downing Street for the media conference just beforehand. This is often done anyway when there is a live report continuing over the TOTH.
NT
nothanks
Computer network problems started about 5am this morning.
NE
Newsroom
Countdown with Natasha still in use at noon.
ST
Stuart
Grrrrr, looks like everything is back to normal now. It's no fun when everything is working OK.
NE
News24
2 points: The absence of the countdown all weekend is clearly not a technical issue (this has affected broadcasting today, not all weekend)

Also, BOTH sequences have been interesting - straight from weather to presenter 2 shot, then full headlines sequence as per TOTH, then titles...

I still expect to see a re-edited countdown before the day is up, or tomorrow morning. The TOTH's have actually been quite effective of late - straight from weather or trail, to presenter 2 shot on a slow creeping zoom "Hello, you're watching BBC News 24, the main headlines at x o'clock" Then the headlines bed kicks in - works quite nicely, captures the viewer's attention.

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