Plus Alex Salmond and the leader of Plaid Cymru are now also hinting that an alliance of Labour, Liberal, SNP, PC and the other Independents is the way to go, despite Salmond stating 48 hours ago that he would not enter into alliance talks with any party!!
Changed his mind?
This will happen, and David C know he will not get his Minority government and we will get PR reform.
Not quite - the Election special is at 12pm, local news at 12.35pm, the F1 starts at 12.45pm (12.15pm on RB) and then the Rugby League as scheduled at 2.15pm. The schedule on the BBC One website (where I'm presuming your info came from) is incorrect.
Actually I got the schedule information from the Freeview on-screen guide at the time I wrote my note.
On Election Night there were obviously a lot of OBs coming into TVC. How does TC1 Gallery handle them all? Are there are a finite (guessing there is!) amount it can handle at any one time?
It used to be the case that the regional switching centres acted as hubs for OB contributions from a particular part of the country, but now that more OBs are via satellite I think SCAR at TV Centre does most of the hubbing.
Well both Sky and the BBC NC were way up on their 2005 figures. In 2005 the News Channel got around 75,000 viewers and Sky 111,000. Shows the huge growth of the BBC NC since then, but I suspect Sky will be happy enough with there figure aswell albeit not in comparison to the BBC.
Why would so many people watch the BBC News Channel? It was just the same as BBC One but without the regional graphics, wasn't it?
Did they carry regional captions in all English regions and/or both platforms, or just the DSO'd regions ?
Sticking captions on BBC 1 analogue English regions is very messy for those watching digitally, because you end up with the analogue network 14:9 picture going out whenever local captions are inserted (soft opt mode).