Boston Marathon 'Explosion'

Was very impressed that Mark Mardell was able to compile a relatively detailed report quite quickly for the Ten. I like the approach the BBC takes with breaking news like this where they do tend to keep a packaged report for the top of the hour. The others appeared to have only done so a few hours later.

Sometimes when channels just repeat the same loops of 30 seconds of footage and go from one eyewitness to the next I find it hard as a viewer to grasp an overview of what's happened and get a sense of the wider picture of everything that is going on. I suppose that's the difference between rolling news and more structured news programmes with greater editorial input. They both have their different strengths.

Just woke up, and shocked to see this news... and BBCWN is on double-presenter duty.

Oops... We were just told that the recorded phone interview just now was conducted with Kasia Madera - certainly didn't sound like Kasia...

And will they put the studio mics down during the v/t or recorded call stuff... All those mouse clicks and crashes are very off putting - and just now 'shall we update the casualty figures Mark'.

Double headed interview with Kasia and Tanya Beckett

Now dodgy feeds of the press conference...

Death toll now raised to 3.

BBC News also opened up live stream from the BBC News channel...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22160978

BBC World moved on to the weather......

EDIT - Now back to rolling coverage with Mike and Julie.

Same with BBC News channel, but they are continuing with the coverage right now.

EDIT: Al Jazeera English just moved on to regular programming, and Stephen Cole is solo presenting.

It didn't air on BBC News at all.

Any word if BBC America is airing regular programming or BBCWN simulcast?

Haven't seen the live graphic on the right of the picture before as it was earlier (BBC). Would there be a reason for this?