Seems that BNCS has had a "catastrophic failure" affecting routing things like, ironically, outside sources, and studios to output streams.
I guess that means we might see disruption to all BBC TV output for longer than a day, unless they can repair the whole thing overnight. For this evening, I guess it means the News Channel will take Newsday at all 3 broadcast times and it will come from Studio E?
Seems that BNCS has had a "catastrophic failure" affecting routing things like, ironically, outside sources, and studios to output streams.
I guess that means we might see disruption to all BBC TV output for longer than a day, unless they can repair the whole thing overnight. For this evening, I guess it means the News Channel will take Newsday at all 3 broadcast times and it will come from Studio E?
Cameras seem to be having a wobbly in E now, it's all go tonight.
AS
AlexS
Presumably Washington and Singapore cannot connect to NBH as I'd have thought that they'd have gone for a single headed beyond 100 days from Washington before resorting to a generic bulletin from E. Whether they can connect to Red Bee in order for WNA and the first hour of newsnight to get to air is a different matter. Having said this the connection to Salford seems to be working as normal so at the very least it is likely that Sports today will continue as normal through the night.
The thing that is making the least sense is that Global (and presumably Focus on Africa) were able to come from studio B after the fault had occurred but it seems Newsnight will not be able to do so for some reason.
I get the impression that they can manually replug/repatch things as required, but there is much less capacity than under BNCS. I suspect Newsnight will be ok, but I wouldn't be amazed if the overnight sequence decamped to Millbank while BNCS is being hit with a big hammer
Seems that BNCS has had a "catastrophic failure" affecting routing things like, ironically, outside sources, and studios to output streams.
I guess that means we might see disruption to all BBC TV output for longer than a day, unless they can repair the whole thing overnight. For this evening, I guess it means the News Channel will take Newsday at all 3 broadcast times and it will come from Studio E?
Either that or solo presented from Singapore.
But isn't Newsday normally handled by the studio C gallery?
There's also the other issue of whether those who operate the C gallery overnight can use E? I'd has it a guess that all the output this evening is being handled by the News channel gallery team.
Cameras seem to be having a wobbly in E now, it's all go tonight.
Looked like someone (quite possibly a world news director who rarely works in gallery E) keyed in for the papers opening shot rather than the shot with the presenter in the centre which caused the camera to be off centre and which was corrected by the movement while in shot.
EDIT: I imagine that all of the galleries are very similar but each has a few studio specific shots that could cause such minor errors (that really aren't important) in camera angles but shouldn't stop them working the gallery for each studio.
The thing that is making the least sense is that Global (and presumably Focus on Africa) were able to come from studio B after the fault had occurred but it seems Newsnight will not be able to do so for some reason.
I get the impression that they can manually replug/repatch things as required, but there is much less capacity than under BNCS. I suspect Newsnight will be ok, but I wouldn't be amazed if the overnight sequence decamped to Millbank while BNCS is being hit with a big hammer
I doubt they'll do anything that could cause E to fall off the air too, with the 10 still to air.
AS
AlexS
Did BBC London manage to air from D as normal at 18:30?
Edit: it appears they did although the Iplayer version currently has subtitles for a generic BBC news channel bulletin (with todays headlines) rather than London News.
Given E is currently the only studio they can broadcast from, I can't see them even trying to do anything that could negatively affect key broadcasts like News at Ten, WNA and Newsday. Since the overnight broadcasts from 2am onwards are just 30 mins news, then a pre-recorded clip, they can just ask the overnight presenter to do one bulletin at 2am, then just repeat it at least twice, giving them some time to work on the issue without directly disrupting anything live.
I seem to remember that some months back, overnights came from studio E but used the World News generic titles instead (minus the Newsroom pan). So they must have the ability to swap templates between the studios.
