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The Royal Baby

It's a boy! Announced at 2030 on Monday 22nd July 2013. (July 2013)

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bakamann
The website Slate thought that Simon McCoy had slip-up... haha.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/07/22/bbc_reporter_s_royal_slip_up_simon_mccoy_says_what_we_re_all_thinking.html
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Brekkie
Ronant posted:
I think this needs its own thread, as a new King or Queen should be born today.

Technically it's a Prince or Princess.

I guess it's wise then to avoid the news channels until there is some actual news on the situation. The Tories will probably be complaining tomorrow about all the coverage the BBC have given Labour today.
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Westy2
Is there a chance ' Network Recall' could be used, if anything happens during the local news?
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JamesWorldNews
"This is Sky News. With Jeremy Thompson and Kay Burley". Ahhhhhhh.

"Welcome to Sky News at Six o'clock."
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all new Phil
WW Update posted:
bilky asko posted:

It's not as if our country is a dictatorship or an absolute monarchy; we don't lack the freedoms of a republic (this is where the Republic movement falls down). Our figure-head gives us a lot of so-called soft power. It also gives us working history, as well as the economic benefits.


Well, my disagreement is based on your suggestion that replacing the monarchy with a republic is likely to make the UK -- or any country -- "worse off" than before. The citizens of, say, the United States, Germany, or France are in no way worse off because they live in republics. These countries are not merely as stable and prosperous as the UK, with strong national identities; they also exercise a great deal of (in)direct political and cultural influence ("soft power") on the global scene. As for a working history, do France or the U.S. -- or small countries such as Switzerland -- have less of it merely because they are republics?

Bore off.
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Steve in Pudsey
Brekkie posted:
Ronant posted:
I think this needs its own thread, as a new King or Queen should be born today.

Technically it's a Prince or Princess.


But will one day succeed William as King or Queen.
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Asa Admin
Please keep the discussion civil and on-topic, the debates on a republic aren't for here.

Westy2 posted:
Is there a chance ' Network Recall' could be used, if anything happens during the local news?

I'd imagine so. Wonder what decision has been made on whether to interrupt a regular programme midway or wait until the end. Does the BBC feel they should be one of the first to announce it to the largest audience?
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Westy2
When was the last time 'Network Recall' was used?

The most recent big stories happened during 'Network' hours.
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buster
Asa posted:
Please keep the discussion civil and on-topic, the debates on a republic aren't for here.

Westy2 posted:
Is there a chance ' Network Recall' could be used, if anything happens during the local news?

I'd imagine so. Wonder what decision has been made on whether to interrupt a regular programme midway or wait until the end. Does the BBC feel they should be one of the first to announce it to the largest audience?


Not a network recall but I remember when Kevin Keegan resigned as England manager wayback North West Tonight "broke" the news and went to News 24 briefly, which was rarely seen during daylight hours in those days. Not sure whether they got it from the network feed as in those days I think it was still carrying Newsroom South East rather than UK Today (which at that point was still a News 24 production). They couldn't get any sound on the feed though!
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WW Update
all new Phil posted:

Bore off.


[...]

But Asa is right; this conversation doesn't belong in this thread. I'm sorry I got involved in the first place.

(EDIT: Initial response deleted. The person in question isn't worth it.)
Last edited by WW Update on 22 July 2013 8:43pm - 4 times in total
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Ronant
BBC Points West has just said if an announcement is made it will come on the BBC News Channel.
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Steve in Pudsey
Westy2 posted:
When was the last time 'Network Recall' was used?


The regions were ordered to bail out of a lunchtime bulletin on 9th April 2003, according to some old posts on here. That was close to the end of the opt so regions would have been listening to network talkback for the count back to network, which was suddenly a lot sooner than expected. Leeds crashed out of the weather forecast, apparently.

On that occasion the presfax based auto recall wasn't used, and I believe some of our insiders have said it doesn't work on the digital distributions - although I guess with Central Coding and Mux they could yank a region off air if needed.

I'm sure the palace PR people would have a hand in when the notice goes up at the Palace, and would be aware that waiting half an hour to avoid the opt and make the announcement afterwards would be a good move.

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