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NickyS Founding member
martinDTanderson posted:
Jim1701 posted:
Sometimes it's always nice to see BBC News improvise things
For one thing, I like the Breakfast studio...
If you ask me, let them do the 1 o'clock news there too Laughing Laughing


Working Lunch is in the Breakfast studio, so the 1 O'clock news cant come from there...

I wonder what NickyS is doing, was he shifted from his BBC Desk earlier?

I'm here ... but not shifted was my desk ... in an area that had power - was actually joined by quite a few people from other areas earlier.
SL
SteveL
Jim1701 posted:

Breakfast ended at 0930
Working Lunch starts at 1200

That would give them about 3 hours to redress the studio?
Does it really take that long to do the job?

Not today, we went from Breakfast (set) to Westminster just before 10:30. That gives them 1.5 hours.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Jim1701 posted:
martinDTanderson posted:

They normally remove one set and bring in another everyday, but with the extended breakfast, they obviously did not have time to complete the removal and reconstruction of the WL set, and so a compromise was met...


Breakfast ended at 0930
Working Lunch starts at 1200

That would give them about 3 hours to redress the studio?
Does it really take that long to do the job?


well that's 2 and a half hours in my book... and you probably want some rehearsal time for Working Lunch
AS
Aston
From Ariel-i:

Quote:
Power failure hits programmes

A power failure in the Stage 5 and Stage 6 areas of Television Centre took radio and tv programmes off air shortly before 8am this morning.

The Today programme, Radio Five Live’s Breakfast programme and News 24 were affected for about 15 minutes.

The problem was caused by an apparent fault in the electricity distribution system following a fire alarm activation, the cause of which is unknown. Two evacuation drills took place at TVC, where power was restored at about 10.30am.

Today, Five Live and News 24 all had to change studios, after news teams lost the ENPS electronic news service and most computer terminals in the Stage 6 area.

Jamie Angus, an assistant editor with the Today Programme, says: ‘We had just finished Thought for the Day, when all the power went off without warning throughout Stage 6.

‘Our normal backup studio wasn’t working either. So we rushed around the building trying to find a studio that worked. We found one at around 8.05am. There was complete confusion, so we had to fend for ourselves. In the five years I’ve worked here, nothing like this has ever happened before.’

Radio Five Live switched to an emergency mini-disk interview between Simon Mayo and David Attenborough after a couple of minutes off air. The breakfast programme was back shortly after 8am.

Five Live had a schedule of guests coming to the studio and once they were relocated in Studio S7 were able to keep more of less to the planned running order.

News 24 is currently being broadcast from the political studios at Millbank, which may also be used for Five Live's midday news and the World at One.
UK
ukfreetv
Nick Harvey posted:
I take it the BBC's spoll chacker was a casuaty of the failure, as I've always spelt it "bussbar".


They make a buzzing noise and they are bar-shaped, thus the name "buzz bar"
SP
Steve in Pudsey
So are we expecting regional news at 1.30? And do we know why the bulletins in Breakfast were dropped?

And they seem to have lost the John Hammond weather forecast, we're back to Carol in the Breakfast set with a masked clock
JI
Jim1701
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Jim1701 posted:
martinDTanderson posted:

They normally remove one set and bring in another everyday, but with the extended breakfast, they obviously did not have time to complete the removal and reconstruction of the WL set, and so a compromise was met...


Breakfast ended at 0930
Working Lunch starts at 1200

That would give them about 3 hours to redress the studio?
Does it really take that long to do the job?


well that's 2 and a half hours in my book... and you probably want some rehearsal time for Working Lunch


Sorry...small calculation error Embarassed Confused Confused
It is indeed 2 and a half hours..

Thanx Steve Wink
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A former member
martinDTanderson posted:

SKY must be ****ing themselves with glee


But if a similar thing happened to the Sky studios one day, affecting Sky News, wouldn't it be more of a problem for them? They haven't got something like Breakfast or even BBC World to fall back on. They've got a studio at Millbank of course, but it would take ages for someone to get there from Isleworth.
:-(
A former member
Steve in Pudsey posted:
So are we expecting regional news at 1.30? And do we know why the bulletins in Breakfast were dropped?


The breakfast bulletins were dropped because of the lack of external communications so TVC and the regions couldn't communicate.

Lunctime is likely to depend on whether the communications have been sorted or not
SP
Steve in Pudsey
N24 are about to take Hard Talk, to give time to prepare for the 1?
ME
me
JimR posted:
The breakfast bulletins were dropped because of the lack of external communications so TVC and the regions couldn't communicate.
Lunctime is likely to depend on whether the communications have been sorted or not

Can't they just get a few mobile phones? Smile
UK
ukfreetv
At least it's not the same HardTalk...

..but is still a bit "ooh look .. puppies" having David Attenborough

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