Great upload - watch the newsflash at the end, must have been some confusion with continuity as the globe stays on for a long time with repeated promise of a statement from the MoD.
Echoes what happened on BBC Two about 20 years later when the Queen Mother passed away.
Also illustrates how much difficulty TV had covering the Falklands War. They had nothing to illustrate 'breaking news' with, as there was a lag of days and sometimes weeks before images were received.
It was the last 'radio war' I suppose. The zenith point particularly for IRN/LBC, whose coverage was far better than BBC radio's IMHO.
Great upload - watch the newsflash at the end, must have been some confusion with continuity as the globe stays on for a long time with repeated promise of a statement from the MoD.
Really unfortunate way of phrasing those announcements, sounds like they're going to have some sort of MOD official come on to address the nation about an imminent attack rather than a news flash.
Great upload - watch the newsflash at the end, must have been some confusion with continuity as the globe stays on for a long time with repeated promise of a statement from the MoD.
Really unfortunate way of phrasing those announcements, sounds like they're going to have some sort of MOD official come on to address the nation about an imminent attack rather than a news flash.
Within the context of the time not really as bad as that, as Ian Macdonald of the MoD was appearing on TV several times a day
Great upload - watch the newsflash at the end, must have been some confusion with continuity as the globe stays on for a long time with repeated promise of a statement from the MoD.
Really unfortunate way of phrasing those announcements, sounds like they're going to have some sort of MOD official come on to address the nation about an imminent attack rather than a news flash.
Within the context of the time not really as bad as that, as Ian Macdonald of the MoD was appearing on TV several times a day
That epitomises what I hate about the approach to breaking news on BBC One. The announcement alone is dreadful, but just throwing to the NC while Zuma was in the middle of his speech was just sloppy.
Thankfully, when Bruce Forsyth died, they really got their act together. A proper slide and announcement from the CA before they went to a bulletin especially for BBC One, not just an NC simulcast. I can only hope that standard continues.
Every time I see that clip I cringe. It’s awful on every level. It should be used as a case study in GCSE Media Studies.
By the way, was that a special comedy edition of Points of View up there or was the Took era always like that?
I do miss the way they used to just read individual words from letters, a practice that comtinued through the Anne Robinson era but they don’t do that now.
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From the editions I’ve seen he always took the piss out of them a little bit, but I think that one’s an exception as it’s obviously a wind-up merchant.
Really unfortunate way of phrasing those announcements, sounds like they're going to have some sort of MOD official come on to address the nation about an imminent attack rather than a news flash.
Within the context of the time not really as bad as that, as Ian Macdonald of the MoD was appearing on TV several times a day
That epitomises what I hate about the approach to breaking news on BBC One. The announcement alone is dreadful, but just throwing to the NC while Zuma was in the middle of his speech was just sloppy.
Thankfully, when Bruce Forsyth died, they really got their act together. A proper slide and announcement from the CA before they went to a bulletin especially for BBC One, not just an NC simulcast. I can only hope that standard continues.
I know I probably shouldn't ask this these days, but was Savile's death a Newsflash too? If so what did they do then?
That epitomises what I hate about the approach to breaking news on BBC One. The announcement alone is dreadful, but just throwing to the NC while Zuma was in the middle of his speech was just sloppy.
Thankfully, when Bruce Forsyth died, they really got their act together. A proper slide and announcement from the CA before they went to a bulletin especially for BBC One, not just an NC simulcast. I can only hope that standard continues.
I know I probably shouldn't ask this these days, but was Savile's death a Newsflash too? If so what did they do then?
Pretty Sure it was only breaking news on the news channels rather than any special buliitians. . It was a Saturday Afternoon announcement.
Great upload - watch the newsflash at the end, must have been some confusion with continuity as the globe stays on for a long time with repeated promise of a statement from the MoD.
Off topic, but it was very unusual for Jan Leeming to present the Nine O’clock during that brown stripey era. Jan was normally on weekend or early evening news Duty. Humphrys and Simpson were the custodians of the Nine back then.
Also oddly, that bulletin ended with a replay of the opening music rather than the closing music.
I know I probably shouldn't ask this these days, but was Savile's death a Newsflash too? If so what did they do then?
Pretty Sure it was only breaking news on the news channels rather than any special buliitians. . It was a Saturday Afternoon announcement.
He wasn't big enough a name to warrant a news flash. Saville was nowhere near as big a star as Forsyth and hadn't been seen on TV for many years before he died.
I don't think there's many people outside of royalty and politics that would get a Newsflash when they die. You have be grade A national treasure, Attenborough's the only one that springs to mind
Great upload - watch the newsflash at the end, must have been some confusion with continuity as the globe stays on for a long time with repeated promise of a statement from the MoD.
Really unfortunate way of phrasing those announcements, sounds like they're going to have some sort of MOD official come on to address the nation about an imminent attack rather than a news flash.
It's just a little unsettling, isn't it? Reminds me of my dad's memory of the JFK assassination, coming home after school, watching the BBC globe on screen in silence for what seemed like forever.