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What happens when....

(June 2006)

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AS
Asa Admin
Ronant posted:
Was there any reason why BBC1 couldn't cut out of Dazzling Bloomers a bit earlier?


Yep, the guys in the National News studio weren't ready and kept changing the time. There's a couple of interesting pages in this old thread

I'd be interested to know the procedure for the Queen, I guess it would be fairly similar?

Asa
SD
sda|
Interestingly, the recording dates for the Queen Mother obit progs are from 92 and 97
BH
BillyH Founding member
Is 'The Queen is dead, long live the King' still the official way of breaking the news? Will Peter Sissons or whoever actually have to say this before anything else if she does die?
SP
Spencer
Inspector Sands posted:
Mr.B posted:
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Of course sometimes you can see it coming, as with the Queen Mother, although ironically (as mentioned above) when it happened it was at one of the worst times for broadcasters. A number of stations were automated (including the now-demised Student Broadcast Network which came out of the 6pm IRN news with some hard rock!) and this is still an unresolved issue in many stations.


I was listening to various stations the night Diana died (i was working a nightshift), one particular station had problems because the IRN bulletins were extended to 3 minutes (there's a clip of the IRN announcement to stations on the MHP page). But the automation was still expecting a 2 minuter, meaning that the end was cut off.

It is possible for station automation to be dialled into and changed from home, but it does rely on a member of staff being woken up to do it


Of course this is no longer an issue, as all bulletins on the IRN180 service are now three minutes long.
MA
marksi
Ronant posted:
onetrickpony posted:
Well it works fine for me

http://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/bbcnews.html

and then go down the page and see if it works that way


Crikey BBC2 had to wait a long time didnt they!
Was there any reason why BBC1 couldn't cut out of Dazzling Bloomers a bit earlier?


News suddenly changed the agreed on-air time. BBC TWO had already left the programme and was left on the slide.
IS
Inspector Sands
Spencer For Hire posted:
Inspector Sands posted:

I was listening to various stations the night Diana died (i was working a nightshift), one particular station had problems because the IRN bulletins were extended to 3 minutes (there's a clip of the IRN announcement to stations on the MHP page). But the automation was still expecting a 2 minuter, meaning that the end was cut off.

It is possible for station automation to be dialled into and changed from home, but it does rely on a member of staff being woken up to do it


Of course this is no longer an issue, as all bulletins on the IRN180 service are now three minutes long.


It is, there's nothing to stop them extending a bulletin by a minute
JO
Jonathan
Andrew posted:
Jonathan posted:
onetrickpony posted:
Here is the site that has the times ect of what went on TV when Diana died.....


http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/continuity/diana.html

Yes, thanks I got that link as you posted it already. It was the other way round, sorry.

It's a pitty pages wern't built like that for other major news events. As time goes on the memories get blurred.

Yes in the least morbid way possible, I think it would be interesting for something like 9/11 or 7/7, as those days I wasn't in when the news broke.
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A former member
As far as 7/7 in concered, this is what happened - correct me if im wrong

- GMTV put up a strap reporting an explosion during LK Today, but Lorraine didnt mention anything about it.

- BBC One had its schedualed news update at 10.00pm, then went back to normal programming

- ITV 1 interpted Jeremy Kyle at 10.12am to hand over the ITV News Channel

- BBC One followed at around 10.20am ish to hand to News 24.

- C4 had regualr news updates during the morning, with a 1hr News At Noon

- The Wright Stuff spoke about it, and then handed to Sky News, then Kate somebody held together Five News's coverage for a while.
JA
jamej
onetrickpony posted:
As far as 7/7 in concered, this is what happened - correct me if im wrong

- GMTV put up a strap reporting an explosion during LK Today, but Lorraine didnt mention anything about it.

- BBC One had its schedualed news update at 10.00pm, then went back to normal programming


It wasn't scheduled - it was a news report.

onetrickpony posted:
- ITV 1 interpted Jeremy Kyle at 10.12am to hand over the ITV News Channel

- BBC One followed at around 10.20am ish to hand to News 24.


I thought both interrupted at about the same time?

onetrickpony posted:
- C4 had regualr news updates during the morning, with a 1hr News At Noon

- The Wright Stuff spoke about it, and then handed to Sky News, then Kate somebody held together Five News's coverage for a while.


Kate Gerbeau and she did hold it together well...
SE
seamus
WLIW and BBC America simulcasted BBC World all day, which in turn simulcasted N24 I think. FOX Simulcasted SKY News, seeing as they are sister networks.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
BillyH posted:
Is 'The Queen is dead, long live the King' still the official way of breaking the news? Will Peter Sissons or whoever actually have to say this before anything else if she does die?


What's with this " if she does die"? She might be The Queen, but she's certainly not immortal. Anyway, come next March, she'll overtake Henry III. Come 2015, she'll overtake Victoria. That'll be a moment of history we'll never see i our lifetime anyway.
MA
mansoor
Neil Jones posted:
BillyH posted:
Is 'The Queen is dead, long live the King' still the official way of breaking the news? Will Peter Sissons or whoever actually have to say this before anything else if she does die?


What's with this " if she does die"? She might be The Queen, but she's certainly not immortal. Anyway, come next March, she'll overtake Henry III. Come 2015, she'll overtake Victoria. That'll be a moment of history we'll never see i our lifetime anyway.


Not next March, March 6th 2008 she will overtake Henry III.

But if she still reign by September 9, 2015, at the age of 89, she would surpass the reign of Queen Victoria and take the title of the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

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