Streatham

Duncan returned from the scene for the early evening news on BBC1, which was quickly followed by Asad Ahmad on scene for BBC London. Quite clearly the idea of sharing resources is yet to get through.

Or it never will!

The coverage is going round in circles padded with predictable reaction, and supposition. They could have easily taken the BAFTA coverage and returned to the studio in the event of any developments.

Any reason why the News channel/World are using some bodged News channel titles without the recorded newsroom shot?

Now Duncan's returned to the scene to report with Ben Brown.

I'm surprised there isn't an extended news bulletin on BBC One in view of the events. However, it may have been difficult to slot in without entirely removing the regional news at 23:15.

The preceding programme (BAFTAs) was recorded at 17:00 this today (probably 'as live') so may be difficult to edit. The following programme (Super Bpwl LIV) is probably live.

I suppose in this instance Ben Brown is the 'anchor' on location for the News Channel/World (and will possibly present the Ten tonight from Streatham), and Duncan Kennedy is the 'reporter' for the News Channel/World and network. Asad Ahmed is providing coverage specifically for London viewers. So it is 3 reporters at the scene, but each of them have a different role.

I suspect it might have been a logistical thing, the truck that Duncan was using hadn't been there for that long before the teatime news.


I don't know what London have available to use but it'll be something IP based and portable. As it was important to have live capability for BBC London's bulletin they probably sent theirs as they couldn't be sure that the network truck would make it in time.

It is possible for a sat truck to do two simultaneous lives so unless their locations were different then that was probably how it was done

Either way the extra cost is marginal, the resources and crews are there waiting for jut ucbn eventuality, the only extra cost is the few quid in fuel to get down to sarf London and any mobile data used for the live

Sadly these events are not newsworthy in the way they once were and don't really warrant the full breaking news panic that they may once have done. Just report it, analyse it and move on - no need for special bulletins and endless rolling coverage.

That's partly for good reasons too, thankfully today and some other recent 'terrorist' events have been a lot smaller in scale and the number of casualties smaller.

We can hope that those who do all the intelligence digging on this sort of stuff have managed to intercept what would would have been major attacks and put the proverbial spanners in those works.

Of course this leaves the "lone" individuals, those who get guns, knives and drive cars at people in what I suppose could be seen (compared to on the scale of something like 9/11) as a half-arsed "attack" so to speak.

But of course this is the world we live in now and the news coverage is what it is. Whether we'll ever see something on the scale of 9/11 again remains to be seen (and hopefully we never will) but that may be the new "benchmark" to get rolling coverage on the main network.

Editorially the NC/World did the right thing in covering the Streatham attack, it may have been small, but viewers would have expected them to cover it instead of brown nosing celebs at the BAFTAs on the red carpet.

Despite the lack of live coverage from BAFTA, the BBC team there would still be interviewing actors which would be used tonight and tomorrow when the news cycle returns to near normal.