BBC News - more technical problems (21/11/18)

Normally a sports bulletin but not normally called sportsday. Presumably not live as I think world has sports today at the same time.

On the NC? That has become the norm now Mon-Thurs, it's just a pre-recorded clip earlier in the evening (the time shows 10:25pm), presumably because there is no sports bulletin at all from the 11pm TOTH bulletin. This started not that long after the Newsnight repeat was removed from the NC and replaced by a second papers broadcast.

Yes, there is a clock behind the presenter, suggests it's recorded just before the bulletin that follows the 10.

Looks like Newsday is being presented as per normal from Studio C, appears either the issue has been fixed, or the programme was already in the BNCS before it crashed.

Things seem to be back to normal at midnight.

Yes back to normal, good night

Normal service seems to have resumed. We’ll have to see what happens in the morning.

Why did the Newsnight repeat get dropped?

It's become pretty normal these days that everything gets resolved by the midnight broadcasts of Newsday. The day when it is forced to present from E is still elusive


I don't really know. Some time earlier this year, it just stopped happening. Possibly the change happened because of occasional technical issues and the consistent breaking news happening that resulted in the programme being dropped due to other events.

About to leave the building and this happened at 1545. It wasn’t good apparently! So 19 hours after arriving at NBH I’m leaving. Can’t tell you how much our teams do in moments like this to keep things on air. it’s also days like these you love having @Rob_scar around. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/bZ7PQF37tQ

— Chris Cook (@chrisckmedia) November 22, 2018

As last year, Thursday's Beyond 100 Days will be just 30 minutes as it's Thanksgiving.

In other words, headlines detailed enough so that they're useful for readers and actual news as opposed to "Otters photobombed couple during proposal", "Five things you need to know for the week" or "Justin Bieber confirms engagement".

I suspect most viewers won't have noticed a thing.

BNCS is a pretty robust system, and it doesn't spectacularly fall over very often. When it does, you often need to think fast to work around it, and kudos to the control room staff who kept shows on the air, albeit without quite as many bells and whistles as usual.

(Last time I had a major BNCS fault, one of the effects was that it de-routed a whole load of talkback routes for the three OBs we we live with. We were busy trying to fix the fault and didn't find out about that bit until later, as in all three cases the PA on site did exactly what they were meant to, and got hold of transmission on the phone.)