Reporting Scotland read out by continuity announcer

Surprised we never got another regions bulletin to fill in until Pacific Quay got whatever issues they were having sorted out.

What they delivered was of more use and relevance to the audience.

IIRC it's possible, though a bit of a faff to get another nation to air - whereas it's simpler and more relevant to get the announcer/director to read the script.

Like ITV West Country did in 2012?

I know it’s unrelated to this. But did the late bulletin go ahead for west country tonight in 2012 lol

Didn't BBC Wales take an NI bulletin recently?

I wouldn't know, they only have the clip of the 6:00 edition.

They did indeed Brekkie. In August 2019 the beeb in Cardiff had a power cut. therefore the 6:30 edition of Wales Today didn’t go ahead so BBC Newsline took over. they didn’t have Wales news or weather although they greeted them with a apology. The 10:30 bulletin went ahead from Llandaff

Is it (hypothetically) possible someone who recently worked in the studio or control room had tested positive and it needed thoroughly disinfecting and cleaning before being designated safe to use? Equally I’d imagine a positive test result from a member of an editorial team could in theory take out the entire Breakfast team? It struck me the continuity announcer’s script could just as easily have been adapted from the BBC News website or from news feeds, rather than necessarily the usual Reporting Scotland script given how short it was, and you’d imagine the gallery could still have played out any clips or visuals even if there was no in-vision presenter?

More than that, for most of the evening BBC One Wales had dedicated continuity from Belfast:

https://cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/1728/news/bbc-wales-hq-struck-down-by-power-cut/

The fact they could have over a minute of BBC ribbons and still join Newsline in time for half of the headline sequence says it all.

That ribbon sequence is gorgeous though - a couple of minutes of that replacing the unavailable breakfast bulletins wouldn't have been the worst thing to wake up to.

Hypothetically, I guess so. But there is more than one gallery and more than one position the programme could be presented from, albeit requiring additional staff. To have lost all opts rather than just the early ones before additional people were woken up and dragged in suggests it's not that.

I'm wondering if the fact that they couldn't even get a weather forecast or drop in a trail or two to fill the gap before opting back hints at a more fundamental problem, such as video servers going down affecting both news and pres?

I imagine the script the announcer used would have been adapted from Radio Scotland's bulletin.