The BBC Strike

The first of these strikes starts at midnight tonight for a 24-hour period.
As other threads have indicated already (especially in the "News" area) much could be affected. But the total extent of how other programmes and how presentation will be hit won't become apparent until well after midnight. Perhaps it will be the Radio Networks such as Radio 4 and Radio 5 at midnight that will set the pace. On TV, News 24 should be worth checking out, along with the earlier than usual hand over from BBC-1 tonight at 1am. The irony of all this could be the cancellation of "Pages From Ceefax" on BBC-2 at 1.30am if there is no-one around who knows how to display them on-air!

Surely it would be better to keep all of this in one thread?

I mean, there are currently two in the archive, one in the Newsroom and one here now.

And to think a certain person complained when I opened the first thread. Shame on you.

why do you have to write in blue? it's so tiresome.

I must learn how to use this greasemonkey thing to remove the blue from your posts, then to remove James Martin's posts entirely

This is the ONLY thread here about what tonight will probably become a BIG ISSUE about presentation. So it deserves to be here. Would it not be better to discuss that than bicker about what colour my writing is?

Well there's already one thread about the BBC Strike (it's not breaking the law or anything having it in the wrong forum!).

Anyway, what happened to good old black for posts.

Apparently, mentioned in the other thread, there are going to be no junctions after 00.00. It will be interesting to see what links into the programme. Perhaps we could see the static idents for BBC ONE and TWO (Capoeira Still and Bounce Still) used with a simple pre-recorded message: 'This is BBC ONE/TWO'.

It doesn't say that - it says that there are no junctions in the nations after 00:00

Besides it takes exactly the same number of people to put a slide on air as it does a full ident

eh? unless the programme is going to last 25 hours, that would be a junction!

Why don't you just contribute to the other one? There's no barrier there saying 'No pres discussion'. I can't for the life of me see the point in having so many seperate threads about this topic.

ITN have just shown a BBC1 announcement from the last strike in 1998, in which Malcolm Eynon apologises for the loss of Breakfast Time. The ident was Scottish 7 (Forth Bridge).

"Breakfast" or "Breakfast News" rather than "Breakfast Time" surely in 1998?

They showed that earlier, tuned-in especially to capture it! ITV News truely is awful LOL!