BBC World Fault on Friday Morning

Hi,

I am not sure if someone has caught a 15 minute fault with BBC World on Friday morning.

At 12:15 am PDT (07:15 GMT), BBC World proceeds with the new break filler, it stays on longer than ususal.

The break filler continues to rotate ads. At around 12:20 or so, the break filer was replaced with a screen announcement saying that there is a temporary technical fault.

At around 12:22, BBC World rebroadcasted the newscast one hour earlier, with the word "REBROADCAST." on the top left corner.

When the news was over, everything seemed fine, when the program proceeded with weather.

Unfortunately, I am unable to capture any of this. But, this was my first time noticing a significant fault.

I also noticed that the new break filler can handle this fault better, being able to continue longer than scheduled.

I started watching at 0900 BST (0800 GMT), and they were playing out a recording of an earlier bulletin - it was the the 0700 BST version with David Eades. They had a massive black graphic coming down from the DOG, saying "RECORDED". At 0930, I switched over to News 24 to see what they were going to do about the edition of World News on there - Martine Dennis was back, live, but they had a bit of a shaky start, mainly with the audio sounding very odd. At 1000, they continued as normal, although at 1130, when there should have been Asia Today and WBR, they played out an edition of Hard Talk for some reason.

EDIT - while we're on the subject of BBC World, has anyone heard of the presenter pictured below? Her name is Ros Childs, and I think she's new this morning - I've never seen her before.

http://www.btinternet.com/~robc86/Images/BBC_World/ros_childs.JPG

She used to work for ITN IIRC

Yes, I just thought this. She did some stints on the ITV News Channel a while back.

Shes actually quite good if a bit fluffy.

I thought she must have had presenting experience, as she's too good to be a complete newbie!

Also ex CNBC Europe IIRC.

I could have sworn I'd seen her before when I saw her on World this morning, but I don't remember her from ITV. Mind you, she looks a *little* like Lyse Doucet, so that might be what I'm thinking about!

So have BBC World filled their presenter vacancy then - since Stephen Cole left and Martine Dennis took his old slot they used a lot of randoms on the World Today - is this continuing, is Ros Childs the new presenter or someone else?

Well as well as the ITV News Channel she used to present on ITV1 on occasions as well, appearing on ITV1 the same sort of frequency as Tim Wilcox really

In the subject of faults the BBC World News here in the US (11 GMT and 3 GMT) was fed to us completely DOGless. No BBC World DOG, no bbcnews.com. It was actually a shock really. I don't care for DOG's but maybe they had some problems with the North American feed?

BBC World here in Canada is still missing the BBC World DOG, and has been for the past few days. The bbcnews.com DOG is generated from the studio I beleive, and I have seen it recently.