Tyne Tees North East Tonight On Border TV

It has been explained several times in this thread why it was not possible.

but it would still have to go through border tv studios? which were without power.

Yes and as i have said from the start of this thread Border should have a back up plan in the event of any emergency situations.That is my whole point.They are still supposed to be providing a service to other parts of the region outwith Carlisle which were NOT affected by flooding .

But there was a back-up plan and they did do it - they routed Tyne Tees to the rst of the region.

It's not perfect, but it provided virtually a normal service to those who had TV. No organisation can have a back-up that will provide a 100% perfect service in every single percieveable and in-percieveable circumstance.

Ha ha...well spotted!!

I understand the point being made but even if you have a generator on site there's no guarantee it will work everytime(look at what happened to the BBC in London a few years ago!!!)
What usually happens is that generators are hired in-however as most of Carlisle was flooded and the phones were disrupted it would have been v tricky to get a generator and staff in to connect it up to Border enabling them to broadcast.
I guess this time you have to put this down to exceptional circumstances.

Good programme on Border tonight - The Day The Floods Came, presented by Fiona Armstrong, and featuring footage shot on Saturday in Carlisle.

It may have been late, but Border were able to put out a programme about the floods that the WHOLE region could enjoy. There was simply no way that it could have gone out at the weekend. Like you, Funky Guy, I am no fan of Border's output, but their coverage of the floods over the last few days has been second to none - and for that they should be commended.

I really think someone ought to tell 10.30 Border newsreader Kate Webster what channel she works for. At the end of every late bulletin she says ' We'll be back tomorrow in Breakfast ', maybe she thinks she's BBC1.

I'm sure someone at BBC Midlands said something along those lines - "bulletins tomorrow in GMTV" or something like that.

Really!!! That's very bad.

that'll be the infamous ashley blake (also of watchdog fame) incident.

Similar to Des Lynam telling us that a football match is over on BBC2..... when he was on ITV1

Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but there is a Lookaround special (The Day The Rains Came) this afternoon at 13:00 on Tyne Tees and Granada replacing Crocodile Hunter Diaries.