BBC News has Doucet/Alagiah/Bowen/Willcox/Simpson/Davis/Pannell/Wingfield-Hayes all on the ground. A very impressive line-up indeed. From what I saw last night, Tim Willcox has taken over Lyse's rooftop position, Lyse is now down on the main square, and George Alagiah did the Six also from the roof. It (The Six) was partially simulcast on World, but was very UK-centric, with references to "the number of Briton's in Egypt......and so on". They cut away fairly early-on, back to Lucy Hockings in London.
Tim Willcox just mentioning where they are in Cairo.
Said they were standing on boxes on the roof of the building, and someone just fell off one of the boxes. (Camera panned out to show set-up, and the person who fell off standing right in the corner). Shame I couldn't have done a video clip of that!
BBC News has Doucet/Alagiah/Bowen/Willcox/Simpson/Davis/Pannell/Wingfield-Hayes all on the ground. A very impressive line-up indeed. From what I saw last night, Tim Willcox has taken over Lyse's rooftop position, Lyse is now down on the main square, and George Alagiah did the Six also from the roof. It (The Six) was partially simulcast on World, but was very UK-centric, with references to "the number of Briton's in Egypt......and so on". They cut away fairly early-on, back to Lucy Hockings in London.
Jim Muir and Jon Leyne have also been reporting from Cairo for TV, as have Kevin Connolly and John Sudworth for Radio. Frank Gardner has been covering from the UK as well.
GMT currently going out on the News Channel (though not branded as such)
splitting at 12:47... BBC News Channel has business with Simon Jack, and BBC Two has the UK opt-out business news with Aaron Haslehurst, whilst BBC World News has an ad break.
BBC News Channel countdown without the number countdown (e.g. like ahead of BBC Weekend News bulletins), followed by the "Impact" (BBC World News) music crashing in, then Tim welcoming viewers to Impact, then Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis butting in with more headlines for the News Channel, then being cut off by the BBC News Titles and then returning to Tim Willcox in Egypt.
A BBC World News/BBC News Channel TOTH mash-up...!
BBC News Channel countdown without the countdown, followed by the "Impact" (BBC World News) music crashing in, then Tim welcoming viewers to Impact, then Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis butting in with more headlines, then being cut off by the BBC News Titles and then returning to Tim Willcox in Egypt.
Yes, clearly attempts to coordinate world and the news channel for the TOTH went very wrong just then - after the titles interrupted Emily mid sentence you could still hear her and Jon talking, presumably trying to figure out what had happened before we rejoined Tim, who already seemed to have started talking - Jon and Emily looked very confused throughout the sequence!
Indeed, I just posted my observations on the same events in the News Channel thread. The simulcasts are generally nowhere near that bad; sometimes when things go wrong, they all go wrong at once.
Indeed, I just posted my observations on the same events in the News Channel thread. The simulcasts are generally nowhere near that bad; sometimes when things go wrong, they all go wrong at once.
Agreed, and over the past few days, this was the first time it failed so miserably, it's usually flawless.