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London bombings - TV news coverage

ALSO: Birmingham security alert - p40 onwards (July 2005)

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SA
Salty Founding member
Thats because of thursday, and because normal shows wern't broadcasted.
PT
Put The Telly On
Apparently Police have 'carried out controlled explosions' in Birmingham.
WI
william Founding member
There was supposed to have been a press conference at 10 o'clock - but on WM at least they mentioned most journalists were having problems getting there.

I've not seen or heard anything from the press conference reported yet - all the stuff about controlled explosions is (I think) from eyewitness reports and journalists on the ground.
TV
tvmercia Founding member
nok32uk posted:
Apparently Police have 'carried out controlled explosions' in Birmingham.
latest i've heard is a controlled explosion on a bus on corporation st
SA
Salty Founding member
you're listening to the press conference to then andrew?!
TV
tvmercia Founding member
Salty posted:
you're listening to the press conference to then andrew?!
haha! no, i'm tempted to ask what press conference. my mate who works at the post and mail filled me in on that little detail via text msg.
GR
gregmc
" Several Controlled Explosions" Five Live reports
SA
Salty Founding member
well brmb are live in a portacabin. and just carried the press conference on a mobile phone. not linked to the london attacks. but your right about the bus tvm.
DE
de_uk
Where are five live broadcasting from in London? I can hear the presenter typing away, while the correspondents are talking.
WE
Westy2
That WM emergency tape ain't been updated for a bit, because they've just played a section of a Tony & Julie Late Show interviewing Reg Presley of the Troggs & they've left the station a few months ago !!

Now Mollie's 'popped up' with a Michael Bolton interview she did a few months ago!

Must have been from her lunchtime era then. Don't remember Bolton being interviewed on the Early Show!

Wonder who else will pop up on the tape?

Let's hope Malcolm Boyden pops up!

Also monitoring 5Live too !
WI
william Founding member
Westy2 posted:
That WM emergency tape ain't been updated for a bit, because they've just played a section of a Tony & Julie Late Show interviewing Reg Presley of the Troggs & they've left the station a few months ago !!


They have put rather more effort into it than the Radio Kent one however - which is just music with gaps in between and no imaging or interviews whatsoever.

I think it would have made more sense for BBC WM to have brought up Five Live on a fader rather than playing this...

Do WM have any other "significant" studios than the Mailbox - ie. somewhere where they can broadcast a full programme from?
TV
tvmercia Founding member
william posted:
Westy2 posted:
That WM emergency tape ain't been updated for a bit, because they've just played a section of a Tony & Julie Late Show interviewing Reg Presley of the Troggs & they've left the station a few months ago !!


They have put rather more effort into it than the Radio Kent one however - which is just music with gaps in between and no imaging or interviews whatsoever.

I think it would have made more sense for BBC WM to have brought up Five Live on a fader rather than playing this...

Do WM have any other "significant" studios than the Mailbox - ie. somewhere where they can broadcast a full programme from?

bbc wolverhampton and bbc coventry & warks (soon to be seperate again of course)

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