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Glasgow win 2014 Commonwealth Games bid...

... yet the BBC miss the announcement! (November 2007)

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BR
Brekkie
So Glasgow are to host the Commonwealth Games in 2014...

The BBC have a special programme, simulcast in part on News 24 for the actual announcement - but when the announcement was made, they were at a school somewhere in Glasgow and then quickly cut back to tell us it had just been announced Glasgow had won - missing the announcement itself!


I know STV also had a programme - so did they manage to get the announcement too?



Sky News covering it quite well, but Sky Sports News more concerned about Beckham and England!
TW
TWO ident Founding member
It's unbelievable, did Reporting Scotland not once spend half an hour building up to a visit from President Clinton, only to cut off as soon as the car drew up?

Anyway, fantastic result for Glasgow and Scotland Very Happy
:-(
A former member
STV got it LIVE!
SO
Steven O
623058 posted:
STV got it LIVE!


They couldn't exactly have got it DEAD, could they?? Laughing
BR
Brekkie
Didn't the BBC do something similar not so long ago - covering something then cutting away at the crucial moment.


Might have been something like Tony Blair's resignation speech IIRC.
DA
David_02
Brekkie Boy posted:
Didn't the BBC do something similar not so long ago - covering something then cutting away at the crucial moment.


Might have been something like Tony Blair's resignation speech IIRC.


Yep. BBC2 cut short the coverage of his farewell speech to Parliament to show trailers. Rolling Eyes
BR
Brekkie
The sort of apology we've come to expect from the BBC

Quote:
But although Glasgow was prepared to host the games there were some at the BBC that weren’t quite prepared. While CGF President Mike Fennel was saying, “I announce that the host of the 2014 Commonwealth Games will be Glasgow”, a special edition of a local Scottish news program called “Reporting Scotland” was interviewing children in a Glasgow school about the bid.

By the time BBC Scotland switched to the Sri Lanka hotel where the vote was taking place it has missed the moment by seconds and instead showed the Glasgow delegation jumping for joy. It seems the nine journalists the BBC sent to Sri Lanka to provide live coverage of the announcement missed the boat and when the BBC realized it, it was too late.

A spokesman for BBC Scotland said, “we were trying to get the announcement itself. But we got little warning when the announcement was made. We were broadcasting live from a school and quickly cut to get the result. They missed the announcement itself by a few seconds”.

He added, “if viewers felt disappointed at not getting the announcement, then that is something we are sorry for. It is a live situation and it is unfortunately that sometimes things like this happen. Overall the program captured the mood in the run-up to it”.


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Absolutely pathetic!
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
TWO ident posted:
It's unbelievable, did Reporting Scotland not once spend half an hour building up to a visit from President Clinton, only to cut off as soon as the car drew up?


Like that clip that's appeared on Alright On The Night many times and other similar programmes of some reporter saying "let's hear what the <person who was actively speaking behind him> has to say", followed by the speaker's "thank you very much!" and his immediate sitting down again! I've always wondered which news organisation this came from and for some reason I'm drawn to ITV News.

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