BBC World News: Reith look onwards

If world is temporarily taking channel (or vice versa) then they don’t have to switch the feed to presentation direct to the other studio, they can take the other studio on an Outside Source. In order to stop any unnecessary duplication of work, they can ‘slave’ the lower thirds and live locators to the other gallery, meaning that the style is maintained but the captions should appear as they are run from the other gallery. This is very useful when there are different programme styles. It would appear here that a Viz engine was picked up before a slave, and not told what the current style for World was. Quite why that viz was still in the old pre-reith style is a slight mystery.

I think MediaBoy cleared that last mystery up - the pre-Reith styles are still available because some of the language services are still in that style.

Everyone meet Gerald...

This is Gerald. Gerald lives in studio C. Gerald is a free spirit and refuses to be caught. Be like Gerald ✊🐭🧀 #bbcnews pic.twitter.com/HV8vHYxtin

— Caroline Batt 💙 (@CarolineBatt) September 27, 2019

Just as well Shelagh Fogarty now works at LBC

https://youtu.be/uAcniOCKtug

To be fair, I think there is more chance of that mouse making it to Leicester Square than there is to it making it to Media City.

Good point.
I always thought the mouse incident was at TVC during Five Live last days before being dragged up to Salford, but definitely post move up north..

I'm surprised the little fella is tolerated, every recent H&S refresher course I've been on cite mice as a potential source of Weils disease (Leptospirosis), and in that environment the risk of fire due to him taking a bite out of one of the cables is reasonably high.

Seems to be the season to be wasting the BBC's ECU dept's time, perhaps I should persist with a compliant ?

They aren't tolerated at all at the BBC. Whilst the person in question posted a humorous comment - there are Rentokil baited vermin traps all over the place, and whenever a mouse (or other rodent...) has been reported more go in and pest control contractors come in to look at the location in case more extreme measures are needed.

Once this happens you don't normally see them for a good while... In that location...

David Claridge had better watch out too !

I imagine the scale of the BBC's operations both at W1 and Salford though mean they are inevitable and they'll never eradicate them entirely - especially with waiting at your desk being common place in lots of offices.

Very true. Waterside location for Salford on reclaimed docklands, and central London with eight floors linked by lovely interfloor cable ducts - paradise for mice. Doesn't help that inevitably people eat at their desks and sometimes leave food lying around, sometimes overnight. Mice are generally known for their incredibly keen sense of smell, being able to Houdini through miniscule spaces, their famous level of incontinence and predeliction for eating cable insulation, they're a nightmare. Worse than rats.

They are quite common in new buildings, because builders have a tenancy not to dispose of their food scraps properly. Food attracts virmin, simple as that. And it's always been said; you're never more than 20 ft (6m) away from a rat, anywhere