Fire Alert at BBC Scotland QMD?

During this morning's TSS, a fire bell could be heard - presenter told child to ignore and show carried on for another few minutes. Before end of segment cartoon shown - reason given a fire alarm. Any disruption to BBC Radio Scotland or they in a different building or on a recording?

Edit : problems - cartoon went out into a TSS sting then onto the (chromakey?) green screen with Taz Mania coming on a few seconds later - has London taken control of the broadcast?

Thats what it seemed like to me.

I would guess all the cartoons and stings would be controlled by London. (Please correct me if I am wrong someone:D )

If its still an issue at the end of Taz, I would guess they may go to TSS OB facility and do the surprise arrival at a child's house then.

No, all elements of the programme come from the studio, Imagine having to cue and run all stings and VT items from a gallery 500 miles away? With all live programmes, 'Presentation' in London cuts to the studio/OB at the start of the programme and stay with it until either: the programme finishes or until something goes wrong. Anything within that time comes from the studio gallery/truck

Taz was either a standby programme run from London or it was put on by the gallery in Scotland before the crew evacuated the building. The option there meaning that ifthey weren't back in by the time the tape ran out then London would take over

Not strictly true - back in the old days of Saturday morning TV - anything before Live and Kicking, the studio (often TC7) would go into a cartoon, then pres would cut to that source directly meaning that the studio was free to record or rehearse for the duration of the cartoon. Then once the cartoon was safely back on TC7's output they'd cut back to the studio.

This arrangement only stopped when L&K started because of their DOG

This is true in the main - but it is possible to arrange for presentation to play in segments of a programme - or to hop from a studio output to the incoming source clean. This commonly happens during Sports coverage, where the BBC Sport gallery will cut to an outside broadcast of a sporting event, but then presentation will jump to the OB clean, to allow the Sport gallery to close down if it is no longer required.

Yes with sports that is true, but it is very rare to play out segments of programmes, I assume even more so now it's not done by the BBC any more . AIUI they are only concerned with complete programmes, even if it's just the case of an aston being put out on top of a programme (for example the result of a phone vote) they won't touch it

Yes - increasingly the case - with the exception of CBBC I think.

(CBBC works with Presentation playing the programmes via tie-lines, under the control of a non-BBC Broadcast director in the CBBC presentation studio I believe?)

It is still possible to organise some flexibility I expect - though less easy than it once was. I am certainly aware of Pres playing out VT reports into live contributions from overseas live presentation before now - though this was in the days of BBC Choice.