Autumnwatch breakdown

I guess there's an argument that it's not the best time to be pre-recording during a live OB programme, given how that kind of programme is the most likely to fall of air.

What was interesting was that London seemed to give enough of a countdown into Coast for Tony to introduce it with a symbol, I imagined that they would just hit play as soon as their announcer had introduced it now you don't need to wait for tapes to get up to speed.

The iPlayer recording has had the entire breakdown taken out and the programme spit into two. Normally when a live programme falls off the air like this the entire charade is available to view on the iPlayer, but I can only presume because of what happened with the network feed, it was possibly feeding the Daily Mail to leave it in...

Somebody wrote on the Points of View messageboard that Coast did appear on the EPG and the second part of the Autumnwatch programme probably didn't record for most:

Also interesting that the Scottish breakdown caption and music was something that was cut to, mid flow, so I assume it's playing permanently (ish) on tap ?

They're not used any more. At all. And I did only say it was the idents, not the whole package.

Are still used.... ealry in the morning for signed programmes.

Signed programmes don't use traditional 'idents', they use a slide with the title of the programme on.

Although it wasn't network's finest hour, don't forget they're tasked with also getting the programme back on air as well as filling the gap. The nations don't have that unenviable task.

Has that continued now then post-referendum?

Possibly done that way to make life easier if a local programme goes down - one less thing for the announcer/director to worry about.

Yep, still with the most colourful news set ever.

Newsnight Scotland is not coming back.

Are you sure? I know Scotland 2014 is meant to end in November.