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itsrobert Founding member
SomeRandomStuff posted:
If this was a weekend, then BBC World News regularly carries recorded programming for most of the hour, and these hours are lead by a short 10 or 15 minute bulletin. (Like hours when they show the Doha Debates, or two programmes, like The Health show followed by HARDtalk.)

Peter Dobbie was probably not scheduled to present a 30 minute bulletin during these hours. He usually does a 7 hour shift on the weekend, sometimes longer. So when a big story breaks, it makes sense to switch to the NC. As someone else has said, on a normal weekend, World News is simply not set up to run breaking news all day.


I doubt that a presenter's contract would be that specific. The on-duty newsreader is on call at all times, even when they're not scheduled to be on air. I remember when I visited BBC World getting on for 10 years ago the presenters all carried pagers with them so that they could be called back to N9 in an emergency should they have wandered off to another part of the building. Just because it's a weekend, it doesn't mean another 9/11 isn't going to happen. They have to be ready to go all the time.
JW
JamesWorldNews
If I am not mistaken, this evenings second edition of The Hub appears to be a replay of the last hours edition, apart from what appears to have been a live dropped in segment from Lyse Doucet in Cairo, where she stated on an open mic "are we now live" at the top of her segment, not realizing that she was actually already on air.

If indeed she was live, why is the main program at the London end recorded? Or am I mistaken.
MI
m_in_m
BBC WORLD posted:
If I am not mistaken, this evenings second edition of The Hub appears to be a replay of the last hours edition, apart from what appears to have been a live dropped in segment from Lyse Doucet in Cairo, where she stated on an open mic "are we now live" at the top of her segment, not realizing that she was actually already on air.

If indeed she was live, why is the main program at the London end recorded? Or am I mistaken.


That segment was also taken by the BBC Five O Clock News on the news channel - though until I had seen this I assumed it was just for the news channel as there was no usual local time bug.
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Worzel
news junkie posted:
Westy2 posted:
AlejoBBC posted:


Is there any reason why this Dobbie chap couldn't do a bulletin for World himself, or why didn't the TOTH go straight from the titles to Tim, seeing he is known on both NC & World, & him saying along the lines of 'Welcome to BBC News live from London, broadcasting around the world'?

It just looked messy, according to that clip.


Apparently, from what I've read in the past here, bbc world's TOTH is shorter than the NCs.

I thought it was a bit weird, but there must have been some reason behind it.


And no one noticed the blooper in the second part of that clap 'We now cross over to my World colleague - Tim Willcox' only for Martine Croxall to appear on screen!
MI
Michael
Worzel posted:
And no one noticed the blooper in the second part of that clap 'We now cross over to my World colleague - Tim Willcox' only for Martine Croxall to appear on screen!


I noticed it, but I just thought they were using soft focus and Tim was wearing a wig.

Also Peter Dobbie is very well known to NC audiences... he used to do 11pm-1am every night at one time.
JW
JamesWorldNews
As we all know, BBC World likes to make mistakes with astons. I think it's a deliberate strategy. But today's error really takes the biscuit. The wonderful "Martine Dennis" was astoned as none other than..........."Clare Rayner"!

Edit: 2nd error of the hour: the Sport Today Headline bed just started playing randomly in the middle of a (rather serious) report about the political situation in Morocco. Wrong button again????




Hmmmmm.
Last edited by JamesWorldNews on 25 November 2011 2:09pm - 2 times in total
JW
JamesWorldNews
So, on Friday, Martine Dennis had become Clare Rayner. And today, Matt Gooderick has become Ed Balls.

Clever work, BBC.
DF
DrewF
It appears according to her Twitter that Sue Thearle is going to be on the 5am shift on BBC World News tomorrow. First time on World News?
JW
JamesWorldNews
No. She has been on BBC World in that slot many, many times, doing the sports though. Not the news. She says she will wake up at 5am, so I am guessing she will go onto the 8am sports slot, rather than newsreading. Although, I may be totally wrong as I usually am.
DF
DrewF
BBC WORLD posted:
No. She has been on BBC World in that slot many, many times, doing the sports though. Not the news. She says she will wake up at 5am, so I am guessing she will go onto the 8am sports slot, rather than newsreading. Although, I may be totally wrong as I usually am.


No, you are almost certainly correct - your theory makes much more sense Wink Thanks for clearing that up.
ZA
zack11
I saw Paul Wood of the BBC on CNN AC360. He was talking about his exclusive from syria. When did BBC foreign correspondents start going on CNN? They credited the BBC though.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Some behind-the-scenes stuff here from the BBC Singapore studio, as shown on Babita's Facebook page. Thanks for these.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Babita-Sharma/296493533718837#!/pages/Babita-Sharma/296493533718837

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