It looks as though the NC have abandoned their back half hour fillers in favour of rolling news coverage, although the EPG has not been updated on Sky.
As an aside, can we all please keep the forum to its intended topic, and not have needless squabbling? It's quite tiresome to come on here and have to wade through pages of such drivel to find things relating to TV pres. PM each other if you want to argue: why unnecessarily irritate everyone else?
It looks as though the NC have abandoned their back half hour fillers in favour of rolling news coverage, although the EPG has not been updated on Sky.
I don't recall
ever
seeing any EPG on any platform get updated to reflect on-the-fly changes to BBC News Channel scheduling.
Sky News have sent Helen-Ann Smith to Streatham High Road. There was a tiny bit of inane padding where she informed viewers about having a large Lidl supermarket, but Sarah Hewson has been filling time well.
I understand the frustration with BM11, but there’s some people on here are just writing crap and getting involved for the sake of it.
Is it to boost your post count? Needing the kudos? Or just can’t resist getting involved in something you ultimately have no interest in keeping on topic? If you start getting warnings, do not be surprised.
A thanks to those who RTP’d, and to everyone else - think before you submit.
CNNI taking the lead on this story in a change from the usual (normally they need little excuse to simulcast Domestic - no matter which country the story is about). Lynda Kinkade doing a great job thus far.
Bit of an observation, the two eyewitness videos on the BBC News channel were shot at exactly the same time. You can see the guy (Dan Smith) filming down the road as the girl (Alanah Murphy) gets her phone out starts filming in the wrong aspect ratio. Then on her video you can see the chap filming the helicopter above, which features in his clip.
I see Dan Johnson, infamous for the Cliff Richard coverage, is the in-studio correspondent for this story.
With the way the BBC News Channel is these days, I'm actually pleasantly surprised they've stuck withcoverage of the Streatham incident rather than going to the scheduled BAFTA fluff.
Sarah Hewson was also on-air for the London Bridge attacks recently, she did a stellar job then and stellar job now - lets everyone finish their points, fills time with updates and recaps. Well-covered IMO.
Interesting that Sky News is asking for eyewitnesses to WhatsApp them their footage in the ticker. I have not seen that before on Sky News - it's quite common to have it on French channel BFM TV and previously on former CNN programme
BackStory
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