Theresa May becomes Prime Minister

All timed nicely for the BBC News at Six rather than the later ITV Evening News.

Justin Leigh of BBC Spotlight has just warned viewers that their 18:30 programme could be on air a little later than planned due to today's events in Westminster.

I have good reason for remembering the schedule that night:

17:00 PM
18:00 Six O'Clock News
18:30 PM (went back on air)
19:00 The Archers
19:15 - 22:45 World Tonight

World Tonight normally goes on air at 22:00 and having SMed the Six O'Clock News was expecting to do that. Just as I finished my manager popped through the studio door to tell me PM was going back on the air and World Tonight would start at 7:15pm. So I quickly grabbed some food and went into the studio just before 7pm.

The entire production team had run off to do the programme from Milbank. I looked out from S1 at the ground floor of Stage VI- there was not a soul to be seen.

I looked up at the TVs- saw the Downing Street feed with the podium in place, so I filled up the OSes on the desk with anything relevant sources I could find. When Gordon Brown walked out to speak the presenter (in the Milbank studio) hadn't been watching the feed so I had to fade him up under her, fortunately she realised almost immediately.

The next couple of hours were somewhat chaotic, I had to juggle the sources routed to the desk (I think S1 could have 10 selected) and - without any production present, just an ISDN for talkback to them - work out which one the presenter was throwing to. This lead to my favourite labelling of a source by SCAR:
"Live Bike : Somewhere"

STV are opting out at 18pm for there own Coverage, but that might all change.....

Me too - I'd been pottering around in town, and wandered down to College Green to see the media circus, then went up to take some pictures around Downing Street - all while listening to Radio 4. (I think I might have retuned to LBC during the Archers, and realised the reporter I was listening to was standing next to me on the pavement on Whitehall)

It's slightly surreal watching events like that unfold right in front of your eyes - if I wasn't in work, I'd probably be down there today. (Or in a control room with all the feeds available. Here all I've got is the news channels!)

The lefties are protesting on the Green, sounds unbearable on SKY... This is why they need covered positions.

G-SKYN currently in the air over Westminster. Possibly taking over pool feed duties from the BBC this afternoon/evening.

Huw Edwards keeps welcoming viewers on "BBC World".

Special titles for the ITV News Special with Alistair Stewart, different to how they've done them in the past for significant occasions.

Which of course started 90 sec early as with ALL ITV daytime programmes at 4pm...

Robert Peston walking back and forwards behind the BBC, trying to get a signal on his phone

actually doing a Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/pestonitv/videos/vb.1498276767163730/1655411711450234/?type=2&theater&notif_t=live_video&notif_id=1468406757683435

he's been doing a lot of them lately - many of which have been shaky inaudible versions of press conferences which the news channels are already covering.