Stabbings in Jersey

Six people have been fatally stabbed in the Channel Islands.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-14523741

According to their Twitter feed Channel Television have been providing extra news bulletins during the ITV1 schedule tonight at 1955, 2015, 2057.

Good to see an ITV region being local and serving their community.

BBC Jersey are doing a special 2215 opt as well at this moment...

Radio wise, BBC Radio Jersey stayed local until 2105 then rejoined the BBC West & SW network output.

Channel 103 had a bespoke bulletin at 10pm, although has taken the IRN/Sky News bulletins since.

Edit: Jersey took the networked Sounds of Brass show until 1900, then went local again.

Channel always have been, they are more local than regional.


Anyone know what arrangements the main broadcasters have for getting pictures back from the Channel Islands? The difficulties over the years of getting TV to/from the UK are well known, but obviously it's easier these days with satellites and IP based systems.

I assume there's at least one sat truck over there, maybe Channel's?

BBC have managed to get a live from Jersey via the Robert Hall's VSAT (or possibly a VPoint connection - it looks blockier than normal). Otherwise it's Breakfast coverage is mainly via Edward Sault's package fed from Jersey last night and some phonos.

Sky News kept losing the signal to their correspondent in Jersey earlier this morning. The picture quality was terrible too.

How did Daybreak cover the story? Did they utilise anything from Channel?

Spotlight's sat truck has now made it over to Jersey.

Overnight ferry from Weymouth I assume.


It does seem odd that in this day there aren't more permanent quality links back from the islands to the UK, they're using the same sort of temporary arrangements that they use from the middle of Africa

Without any proper SNG kit, (i.e. a vehicle or flyaway kit) surely that would be the case at any location in the UK ?

There is a radio link (possibly PAL?) from the Jersey studios - this was used to send reports. No reason the studio couldn't be used for down-the-line interviews either.

(Last week, Breakfast had a better quality down-the-line from the studio in Stornoway than one in Brussels, which seems a bit counterintuitive given how much better the latter is connected!)

What I did see of last night's coverage, (which wasn't much I admit) were down the line reports from the BBC Jersey studio with some local chap, and later Robert Hall. The quality was better than I've seen in recent weeks from Berlin, Brussels, and LA !