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Fire alarm at News at ten!

(January 2018)

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AN
Andrew Founding member
Brekkie posted:
That ITV breakdown caption can give anything on BBC2 a run for it's money - truly hideous. The ITV News at Ten holding slide was much nicer.

And times like this ITV probably wish they'd outbid the BBC for the rights to Coast.


At least it's consistent, same font, same colour scheme as the rest of ITV presentation, not a slide in a different font typed in a solid block out of alignment, with a background no doubt from a previous look.
CR
Critique
Not very often you hear the Network CA reference something that only one region saw (in this case that London got Meridian).
TF
TellyFan
Asa posted:
ITV really need to work on getting a second music track Very Happy


Beyonce - Run The World (Girls)

Very Happy
AL
alexhb01
Why does it take so long for people to evacuate at ITN & ITV? When the alarm went off on Good Morning Britain at ITV studios they sat there for about a minute wondering what to do. When it happened on BBC breakfast they went straight into a simulcast of BBC news I believe.
LL
Larry the Loafer
alexhb01 posted:
Why does it take so long for people to evacuate at ITN & ITV? When the alarm went off on Good Morning Britain at ITV studios they sat there for about a minute wondering what to do. When it happened on BBC breakfast they went straight into a simulcast of BBC news I believe.


My guess is that it's live television, and they want to try and determine if it's a false alarm rather than effectively disrupt a broadcast and lose viewers who are met with a breakdown slide.
UB
UBox
alexhb01 posted:
Why does it take so long for people to evacuate at ITN & ITV? When the alarm went off on Good Morning Britain at ITV studios they sat there for about a minute wondering what to do. When it happened on BBC breakfast they went straight into a simulcast of BBC news I believe.

It's not just ITV, I remember watching a Football Focus, MOTD or Final Score a couple of years back from Salford where the presenters stayed for over 5 minutes with it going off in the background.

EDIT
AN
Andrew Founding member
Funny reading comments on Twitter from people bemused at Meridian News, liking the fact it wasn't all inner city crime. I assume it wasn't Fred Dineage hosting tonight as that would have caused even more Twitter comments.
AL
alexhb01
Larry the Loafer posted:
alexhb01 posted:
Why does it take so long for people to evacuate at ITN & ITV? When the alarm went off on Good Morning Britain at ITV studios they sat there for about a minute wondering what to do. When it happened on BBC breakfast they went straight into a simulcast of BBC news I believe.


My guess is that it's live television, and they want to try and determine if it's a false alarm rather than effectively disrupt a broadcast and lose viewers who are met with a breakdown slide.


From the fact they dumped out into a still slide before network went into the breakdown slide, they clearly didn’t have any standby tape to run
DV
DVB Cornwall
alexhb01 posted:
Why does it take so long for people to evacuate at ITN & ITV? When the alarm went off on Good Morning Britain at ITV studios they sat there for about a minute wondering what to do. When it happened on BBC breakfast they went straight into a simulcast of BBC news I believe.



I presume they, like many major 'mission critical' operations have degrees of evacuation. A complex algorithm within the alarm system determining the validity and scope of the 'alarm'. In consequence critical staff will leave only once the alarm system determines a step up in the level of evacuation. Highly sensible. I worked in such an environment for my working life. Only once was a total evacuation of site ordered. Key personnel staying at post throughout normally.
CY
cyberdude
alexhb01 posted:
Why does it take so long for people to evacuate at ITN & ITV? When the alarm went off on Good Morning Britain at ITV studios they sat there for about a minute wondering what to do. When it happened on BBC breakfast they went straight into a simulcast of BBC news I believe.

Or that one time on Lorraine...
SP
Steve in Pudsey
UBox posted:
alexhb01 posted:
Why does it take so long for people to evacuate at ITN & ITV? When the alarm went off on Good Morning Britain at ITV studios they sat there for about a minute wondering what to do. When it happened on BBC breakfast they went straight into a simulcast of BBC news I believe.

It's not just ITV, I remember watching a Football Focus, MOTD or Final Score a couple of years back from Salford where the presenters stayed for over 5 minutes with it going off in the background.

EDIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i68fVnbWefY

The alarm message was "please wait for further announcement", so that would be the alert phase rather than evacuate.
MO
Moz
DVB Cornwall posted:
I presume they, like many major 'mission critical' operations have degrees of evacuation. A complex algorithm within the alarm system determining the validity and scope of the 'alarm'. In consequence critical staff will leave only once the alarm system determines a step up in the level of evacuation. Highly sensible. I worked in such an environment for my working life. Only once was a total evacuation of site ordered. Key personnel staying at post throughout normally.

And in normal English!!? Confused

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