South Today? Nope... LDN!

While watching Breakfast this morning, I have noticed that instead of getting South Today, like I should, I keep getting LDN. Has anyone notice any other regions which is getting LDN instead of their usual regional programme?

PS. Does anone have a real media clip of the new BBC News 24 Breaking the News trailer?


(Edited by Robert De Rosa at 8:29 am on Nov. 27, 2001)

the upside ofcourse is that more viewers get to see me if they are getting UK Today .... that should be the default back-up


(Edited by NickyS at 8:24 am on Nov. 27, 2001)

Well, we just had UK Today at 8:30!! Was that you? I wonder what is going on in Southampton?

It's possible it was just the Oxford transmitter, can anyone confirm if they did get ST this morning in any other area?

If it was UK Today and just on the Oxford transmitter then it could well be a fault on the sub-opt set up at Southampton, which just feeds the Oxford transmitter. I believe that both the Oxford and Southampton outputs have to be separately opted out - for joint bulletins the Oxford opt should be slaved to Southamptons gallery - but if no-one does this then Network aka UK Today goes out.

When the sub-opt first started Oxford viewers were treated to Pauline's rehearsals as well as her transmissions apparently...

However - if it was definitely BBC LDN was going out instead of UK Today - then this indicates that the feed from Southampton has failed - and Oxford is rebroadcasting a BBC London transmitter (probably Crystal Palace) Ideally the Oxford transmitter should rebroadcast a BBC South transmitter - but it may be that this is not possible (and the BBC London rebroadcast could be a legacy of the time when Oxford was part of the Newsroom SouthEast - then BBC South East - region)

I think the sub-opt is not used when the programme is shown at the bulitins throughout Breakfast, because when we look across the studio, we see the whole South Today region. The sub-opt is used (for example) in the 6 o'clock news and during the 10 o'clock news.