GE
Some of us get to call that a job.
Anyhow, it seems that someone's awake in 4 Millbank: BBC Parliament will today be broadcasting live coverage of the Scottish Parliament, which has been recalled early.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mlylt
thegeek
Founding member
You'll miss watching crap daytime TV one day, trust me.
Some of us get to call that a job.
Anyhow, it seems that someone's awake in 4 Millbank: BBC Parliament will today be broadcasting live coverage of the Scottish Parliament, which has been recalled early.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mlylt
EX
Tomorrow and Saturday are the UKIP and Greens party conferences. Yet BBC Parliament are showing the same cycle of summer programmes all day tomorrow, and recorded Scottish Parliament from this week on Saturday that could be shown anytime. Their only coverage is the party leader speeches, recorded and shown on Saturday night.
Why not show live coverage from both conferences - there will be teams there to record the leaders speeches so it wouldn't take that much more effort. And with both parties having MEP's, IMO I would expect the BBC to provide more extensive coverage
Why not show live coverage from both conferences - there will be teams there to record the leaders speeches so it wouldn't take that much more effort. And with both parties having MEP's, IMO I would expect the BBC to provide more extensive coverage
DO
Probably a very simple answer - resources.
Covering a complete conference will need to be a full OB set up, and I'm not sure if Parliament has the budget & resources to be able to organise this. The big party conferences will be covered by News anyway, so Parliament can just take a feed from them. The smaller conferences will probably be an single camera & presenter job by News, which won't cover the whole conference, just bits that they have already decided to film (like the leaders' speeches), and quite probably even without the ability to broadcast live from the site, depending on how close the nearest BBC centre is to send content back to London.
Why not show live coverage from both conferences - there will be teams there to record the leaders speeches so it wouldn't take that much more effort. And with both parties having MEP's, IMO I would expect the BBC to provide more extensive coverage
Probably a very simple answer - resources.
Covering a complete conference will need to be a full OB set up, and I'm not sure if Parliament has the budget & resources to be able to organise this. The big party conferences will be covered by News anyway, so Parliament can just take a feed from them. The smaller conferences will probably be an single camera & presenter job by News, which won't cover the whole conference, just bits that they have already decided to film (like the leaders' speeches), and quite probably even without the ability to broadcast live from the site, depending on how close the nearest BBC centre is to send content back to London.
DV
Question Time
Friday 25 September 9.00-10.00pm - BBC PARLIAMENT
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the BBC's flagship topical discussion programme, BBC Parliament is re-broadcasting Question Time's original edition, first broadcast on 25 September 1979 and chaired by Robin Day
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Friday 25 September 9.00-10.00pm - BBC PARLIAMENT
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the BBC's flagship topical discussion programme, BBC Parliament is re-broadcasting Question Time's original edition, first broadcast on 25 September 1979 and chaired by Robin Day
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EX
Fair enough, though I would contest from a PSB angle that considering UKIP and Greens electoral success, they deserve more extensive coverage
Probably a very simple answer - resources.
Fair enough, though I would contest from a PSB angle that considering UKIP and Greens electoral success, they deserve more extensive coverage