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BBC News (UK) presentation - Reith launch onwards

From Monday 15th July 2019 (July 2019)

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AN
Andrew Founding member
I’m not sure Matthew appreciated the references there. I’m sure Simon McCoy would have made more of it.
SS
SuperSajuuk
BBC News Channel basically had a complete crash just now at 7.25pm with the weather bulletin. Weather is being played out with no presenter on shot, and with the generic loop music being played in the background. Am more surprised they're not quitting out of the weather feed to show the countdown.
MF
Matthew_Fieldhouse
Strange incident on the BBC News Channel in middle of Beyond 100 Days, Mel Coles name appeared at beginning but no weather presenter, just going through slides with music from countdown.
WM
WMD
Thought that went rather well!
VM
VMPhil
Weather presenter ill at the last minute and they decided to just show the graphics, or somehow both the video and audio of the weather presenter failed?
SS
SuperSajuuk
Weather presenter ill at the last minute and they decided to just show the graphics, or somehow both the video and audio of the weather presenter failed?

If it were a case of the presenter being ill, it would make more sense to play some filler and then play back an older pre-recorded clip from earlier in the day for tomorrow's weather, rather than doing what happened. Showing just graphics without an explanation doesn't really help a lot of people, if people wanted that, they would just use their phones Razz

My guess is that the source that displays the video and plays the audio of the presenter (since the weather graphic feed and the presenter feeds are effectively separate) failed in some way, but strange they didn't just try to quit out of the obviously failed play back.
BR
Brekkie
Weather is being played out with no presenter on shot, and with the generic loop music being played in the background.

That's the next round of cuts then. Wink
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SS
SuperSajuuk
Weather is being played out with no presenter on shot, and with the generic loop music being played in the background.

That's the next round of cuts then. Wink

Next thing is soundless news bulletin broadcasts and you just have to read the subtitles/screens for the gist of the story XD
BR
Brekkie
Just rewound on the iPlayer - actually works quite well as a countdown at least, is actually somewhat relaxing.
WM
WMD
Weather presenter ill at the last minute and they decided to just show the graphics, or somehow both the video and audio of the weather presenter failed?

If it were a case of the presenter being ill, it would make more sense to play some filler and then play back an older pre-recorded clip from earlier in the day for tomorrow's weather, rather than doing what happened. Showing just graphics without an explanation doesn't really help a lot of people, if people wanted that, they would just use their phones Razz

My guess is that the source that displays the video and plays the audio of the presenter (since the weather graphic feed and the presenter feeds are effectively separate) failed in some way, but strange they didn't just try to quit out of the obviously failed play back.


I suspect the decision was complicated by the fact that Channel and World go their separate ways for weather before coming back again for the BOTH. Very sensible contingency, and worked quite well.
HA
harshy Founding member
It looked like there was a presenter missing to be honest...
BR
Brekkie
Yes, I wonder if she was there doing the forecast but we got the feed on the screen behind her rather than the feed of her.

Anyhow, if they're looking for music to accompany non-presented forecasts this week anything by Wet Wet Wet would probably be appropriate.

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