DA
Interesting to see that BBC Two joined BBC News Channel (after what seemed like ages with a caption but no audio) who then joined BBC Radio Five Live.
Where else was this being shown? I guess the BBC website coverage was either BBC Two, BBC News Channel or even BBC Parliament. What about the Labour Party website? Did anyone see what happened there?
Where else was this being shown? I guess the BBC website coverage was either BBC Two, BBC News Channel or even BBC Parliament. What about the Labour Party website? Did anyone see what happened there?
IS
That's a good question, it looked like they were repeating the whole thing on Today At The Conference tonight after Newsnight.... but I didn't stop to watch the whole lot.
Obviously it depends where the power failure was and where it was being recorded. I would have thought that the broadcasters would record the coverage locally for editing so that wouldn't have been affected depending on where they do it (in the conference building itself or in a truck).
Seeing they lost live coverage for a time, is there a full visual &/or audio version of the entire speech recorded, so in effect, there is no missing footage?
That's a good question, it looked like they were repeating the whole thing on Today At The Conference tonight after Newsnight.... but I didn't stop to watch the whole lot.
Obviously it depends where the power failure was and where it was being recorded. I would have thought that the broadcasters would record the coverage locally for editing so that wouldn't have been affected depending on where they do it (in the conference building itself or in a truck).
GE
thegeek
Founding member
It seems that the scanner producing the core feed was unaffected; but the power to the uplinks for Sky and the BBC was cut. (Sky were providing a backup path for the BBC, and vice versa; shame the single point of failure failed. I'm suspect the engineering managers will have been straight on the phone to Manchester Central to make sure that they've got separate supplies for the Tory conference)
GE
thegeek
Founding member
the iPlayer version of the Daily Politics appears to have cut some of the breakdown:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015gt9w/?t=48m48s
as broadcast, there was a freezeframe, followed by full-field blue - then they tried fading to a backup, which was a slightly different freezeframe. Then pres took over with their breakdown slide.
The clip above does include Tim Willcox though, you'll be pleased to hear.
BBC Parliament's breakdown appears to be here in full.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015gt9w/?t=48m48s
as broadcast, there was a freezeframe, followed by full-field blue - then they tried fading to a backup, which was a slightly different freezeframe. Then pres took over with their breakdown slide.
The clip above does include Tim Willcox though, you'll be pleased to hear.
BBC Parliament's breakdown appears to be here in full.
JA
james
the iPlayer version of the Daily Politics appears to have cut some of the breakdown:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015gt9w/?t=48m48s
as broadcast, there was a freezeframe, followed by full-field blue - then they tried fading to a backup, which was a slightly different freezeframe. Then pres took over with their breakdown slide.
The clip above does include Tim Willcox though, you'll be pleased to hear.
BBC Parliament's breakdown appears to be here in full.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015gt9w/?t=48m48s
as broadcast, there was a freezeframe, followed by full-field blue - then they tried fading to a backup, which was a slightly different freezeframe. Then pres took over with their breakdown slide.
The clip above does include Tim Willcox though, you'll be pleased to hear.
BBC Parliament's breakdown appears to be here in full.
On the slide they use when cutting to 5Live. It has to be the WORST BBC News logo ever used. It is really shocking.
SP
Did the radio coverage fall off air too? If it didn't (and I suspect it didn't) I'm surprised it took so long for the TV gallery to realise that it was available.
JO
On the slide they use when cutting to 5Live. It has to be the WORST BBC News logo ever used. It is really shocking.
I don't know who came up with it (or why it has been allowed to continue as a standard template for 3 1/2 years) but they clearly had no desire/knowledge of presentation what-so-ever.
the iPlayer version of the Daily Politics appears to have cut some of the breakdown:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015gt9w/?t=48m48s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015gt9w/?t=48m48s
On the slide they use when cutting to 5Live. It has to be the WORST BBC News logo ever used. It is really shocking.
I don't know who came up with it (or why it has been allowed to continue as a standard template for 3 1/2 years) but they clearly had no desire/knowledge of presentation what-so-ever.
IS
5 Live is readily available throughout the News Centre's router but whether it was ready on the desk I doubt it. The first priority of course would have been to get the dead image off the screen and fill.
I would assume that there would have been some basic checks to make sure that what was on 5 Live was the speech and it was live (that they hadn't had a breakdown too and started to play back highlights) and that it wasn't likely to drop off too
Did Sky have an audio backup? I assume it's radio operation takes it's audio from the TV
Did the radio coverage fall off air too? If it didn't (and I suspect it didn't) I'm surprised it took so long for the TV gallery to realise that it was available.
5 Live is readily available throughout the News Centre's router but whether it was ready on the desk I doubt it. The first priority of course would have been to get the dead image off the screen and fill.
I would assume that there would have been some basic checks to make sure that what was on 5 Live was the speech and it was live (that they hadn't had a breakdown too and started to play back highlights) and that it wasn't likely to drop off too
Did Sky have an audio backup? I assume it's radio operation takes it's audio from the TV