Syria Conflict

With the US, UK and France beginning airstrikes against Syria tonight, here's a quick rundown of what the broadcasters are doing.

Sky News - Anna Jones continued until 2.30am with input from Mark Austin in Washington. Mark Austin anchoring solo from 2.30am. Also input from Alistair Bunkall.

BBC News - rolling coverage from 2am with the overnight World presenter whose name escapes me. Sky News certainly seemed more prepared although the BBC have had a decent variety of guests. Nothing on BBC One (obviously Commonwealth Games means no NC simulcast)

CNN - rolling with Anderson Cooper as well as input from Christiane Amanpour.

CNBC - simulcasting MSNBC.

As far as I can see the main US networks all aired Special Reports from 9PM ET.

Incidentally the Theresa May statement looked like it was filmed on a mobile phone. Poor quality and poorly framed. Obviously pretty rushed.

France, the other country involved in strikes has a loop of the midnight bulletin running on all their domestic news channels, which is standard for the country. The exception is Franceinfo which is simulcasting France 24 which does have coverage.

Anyone who has watched French news channels overnight will know that they're slow to react.

The BBC World News presenter is Nkem Ifejika.

Thankfully though it wasn’t in vertical AR !

Syria Satellite Channel on 8W:, can anyone translate the red banner? Syria Drama channel also showing the same.




Al-Ikhbariyah al-Suriyah on 7W:

As of 10am Matthew Price presenting on the BBC News Channel live in Beirut - no idea what World is doing but the TOTH used the long version of the News Channel titles and there's not a local time popping up on the 'live' straps, suggesting this is NC produced at the very least. No presenter in London has popped up so far - Price is linking to reports and interviewing correspondents/analysts all from his OB.

Meanwhile, some very slick TOTH sequences on Sky News today (along with one or two technical issues) - Sunrise was presented from London, Washington, Paris and Moscow, with a presenter in each location doing a bit of the headline sequence. I know Sky News is a lot plainer than it used to be but it showed itself to still be good at being pacy and slick this morning!

Feed for the presentation from Beruit is on 16E, 12713V 2399 3/4.

Translations via Google:

Top: [Our] News reporter waiting to take the last buses that transport the "Army of Islam" and their families until they are always completely free from terrorism.

Bottom: Source: The aggression of regimes of arrogance and Western hegemony came as a result of the frustration of the failure of the project security to Syria and in response to the defeat of their tools of terrorist organizations in front of the progress of the Syrian Arab Army.

Samantha Simmonds is in Studio C for BBC World with inserts from Matthew Price.

Ben Bland will take over on World later.

And Shaun Ley is in E for the Same inserts (and yes 10:00-11:00 hour was NC Produced as World took E as well.)

Yes, seems to be the usual scenario where the galleries alternate being responsible for the first half hour and TOTH. You can of course tell by the TOTH titles used.

Is he? That will be bland then