BBC News Journalists to stage 2 48 Hour Strikes

Anyone going to place bets on the longest countdown tomorrow on the News Channel?

Although I think they may work on set times no doubt they will have gaps to fill.

According to the guardian article Breakfast won't exist tomorrow, isntead being 2 minute headlines at the top of an hour of repeats and filler programmes. This suggests to me a setup more like that of the daytime updates green screen.

What a great opportunity for Daybreak to get a lot of viewers and maybe keeps some of them.

I don't think they will be able to tell until tomorrow morning, to see who turns up to work or not, Sian did what was coming up on tomorrow's programme this morning, but that could have been the BBC hedging there bets. I am sure the BBC will be able to get some sort of service out tomorrow morning, but what this looks like remains to be seen.

I've mentioned this, I hope Daybreak gets good ratings out of this and maybe just maybe keep them for Monday onwards <holding my breath

Will be interesting to see what happens at midnight tonight...I wonder if Chris will just stop presenting!

He will be disconnected for the first time in years! they even gave him back up batteries to keep going while he was reporting on the chilean miners!

Are you confusing Chris and Tim there?

ooo I believe I have sorry I was watching Tim on the news channel that's why
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The longest will be a 50 minute countdown - it'll be that, two two minute summaries and three minute recorded weather forecasts that make up the five o'clock news hour. I heard the news summaries were recorded a couple of days ago, too.

I'm sorry if this has been asked recently but besides Stephen Cole who were the other presenters that day in 2005?

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