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Messy at 1pm

(December 2001)

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M
M@ Founding member
The headlines at 1pm today on News 24 were extremely messy.

I'll try to describe what happened:

Countdown to 00. Stayed on 00 for a while.

Went to a wide shot of the studio. Chris Eakin says:
'Hello, this is BBC News 24.' Then he reads the first headline straight to camera without the film.

Second headline is read with film. Then the third headline is read with the film from the second headline still being played.

After the third headline, we go back to the wide shot, and Chris Eakin says:
'We also have a forth headline this afternoon...' and reads the forth headline to camera.

The vamp fades and goes to the shot of the female presenter only. No titles were played. She says:
'Good afternoon (pauses for a moment and looks down at paper in front of here temporarily, as if the autocue has broken). This is BBC News 24. I'm XXXXX XXXXX (unknown name) and presenting with me is Chris Eakin'

She then reads a quite long winded first story. We then get to hear part of the upcoming report as she is talking. The report is played after about a minute of her talking to camera (quite a long time if you think about it). The report is then interupted by breaking news.

A lot of breaking news today actually!

Well, that's about it.
SO
Simon Owen Founding member
So presumably something to do with the fact that the verdicts in the Woodgate/Bowyer trial had just been returned, right at one o'clock then? Bearing in mind they were mixed (ie. Woodgate cleared, Bowyer guilty on one count and not-guilty on another) I'd be surprised if they were prepared for that particular outcome at that particular time. You'd imagine it was the worst possible scenario for the news eds, so hardly surprising no-one knew what was happening...
DB
dbfriends Founding member
Eww! Sounds a little (OK, a big) bit messy...

Would the presenter have been Liz Pike by any chance? She was on later this afternoon with Chris.

Don't suppose anyone captured it by any chance...
IT
itsrobert Founding member
Yes it was Liz Pike, I caught her just before 4pm when I returned home.
MA
Marcus Founding member
I gather they had a total crash of the ENPS system this morning. Maybe it was related.

(Edited by Marcus at 12:46 am on Dec. 16, 2001)
MA
Marcus Founding member
Bit messy at six as well. John Terret left sitting in vision for quite a while before they cute to a moving camera.
TP
Techy Peep Founding member
Marcus posted:
I gather they had a total crash of the ENPS system this morning. Maybe it was related.

(Edited by Marcus at 12:46 am on Dec. 16, 2001)

Not surprising, as you know Marcus!
ENPS has been having bouts of illness for the past couple of days. Big wigs from AP are on the case - Phew
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