BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

The first theme tune heard is apparently the Mysterious Cities of Gold.

This is the YouTube clip that was being played

https://youtube.com/watch?v=we8hV2WyrYA

Because of the Obama press conference, Film 24 hasn't been filmed in it's normal slot. Does that mean there won't be an episode this week, or will it be filmed at a different time?

Assuming the Obama presser is being taken by World it's easy enough for the domestic NC to join World which frees up Studio C for recording the Film programme. Or get another gallery to handle the press conference.

It gets repeated so would probably have been recorded as-live, and it's first scheduled repeat now becomes it's first airing. There has been debate here in the past about whether it's usually done live or not anyway.

One of the strangest faults I've seen.

Belfast Telegraph:


Still pretty sure it was Kermode messing about.

Seeing as he was wearing a Den Of Geek shirt when he was on my flight to Atlanta a few weeks ago, I definately wouldn't put it past him!

Thanks to this fault I just discovered that Mysterious Cities of Gold came back in 2012

I can just about understand how they could accidentally switch to a camera in an empty Studio C, if any gallery can operate any of the news studios at NBH; but how does the audio from a YouTube video make it to a live broadcast feed?

Someone in the studio/gallery was watching the videos, perhaps? Though why they'd be watching old CBBC continuity of The Mysterious Cities Of Gold and Dogtanian is anyone's guess.

Yep, possibly on a PC connected to the sound desk?


I'd have thought it's more likely that the studio/gallery just got routed to air accidently rather than the camera itself

Each studio at NBH is self-contained with a dedicated gallery (so the cameras aren't directly available in any studio other than their 'own'). However any studio can call up the output of any other studio as an OS (and if that studio is not in use and has a camera left on output that would allow one studio to cut up a camera in another). Though I don't think this happened in this case - as that would have been quickly noticed.

Looks to me like a network routing issue (i.e. the wrong studio mis-routed to the network output) with the on-air gallery not seeing that they weren't on-air as they were monitoring the studio output (which was fine) not the network output (which wasn't)?



Because someone was watching YouTube on a PC or iPad etc. which had audio output available for on-aire use, and that happened to be faded up on the sound desk of the unused studio at the time?