Omg. That's hilarious to watch now. What were the problems done to? Was it a work experience day for school students to run the show?
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I was a Scotland Today addict and I will never forget this happening. It was horrible to watch but for Shereen and John, hell - it surely would have been their worst on-air nightmares. Tapes would not play or if they did, it would be the wrong one, title bars would either not appear or appear at the wrong time. Just awful and IIRC Shereen was almost in tears after this. The reason for the fiasco, was staff had not been given the right training to operate the new equipment
I'm guessing training occurred after that. Surely they must have known where the headline caption was to be placed on screen rather than having to move the cameras whilst shooting.
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This of course is NOT the worse case for Scotland going **** ups, the worse case was the first week of the new Red digital studio. For three days on the trot it was pure car crash, The last time on Wednesday there finished with 15mins spare, having no choice but to put in extra programme. saying that there had to finish early on Monday and Tuesday
I remember two " lack of scenery " examples when the show did go on. I remember Blue Peter in the early 80s being presented from a bare studio ( Simon, Peter, Sarah era ) due to a BBC strike. Also didn't Saturday Superstore come from the Play School studio near Christmas 83 due to a similar strike?
Play School *set* - it was often recorded in TC7, the same studio SuperStore used, so it's likely the industrial action prevented the set being changed.
Not reduced circumstances necessarily but two other show must go on moments curtesy of Reporting Scotland were (1) a substitute weather forecaster in the early days of Heather the Weather having some sort of panic attack to the point they cut back to Jackie Bird who cited some technical problem and the weather was abandoned - poor bloke and (2) Sally McNair reading the 1025 bulletin with what you could only presume was the noise of the Pacific Quay opening party going on in the building to the point that you could barely hear what age was saying.
I've just realised that this thread has missed out possibly the most famous example - BBC2's opening night, in which a power failure affecting TV Centre (and Lime Grove) meant that both BBC1 and BBC2 decamped to Alexandra Palace, then home of BBC TV News.
Gerald Priestland holds the fort with a remarkably relaxed news bulletin in lieu of BBC2's planned opening night spectacular, initially in vision only until an audio fault is corrected.
I think I've read of John Craven claiming to be one of the first newsreaders not to wear a suit - Gerald beat him by at least a decade.
ooft, that Scotland Today is pretty ropey.
It did bring to mind a time they didn't make it on air - sometime in the mid 90s when a major fault took Black Hill off the air. It was back by around 6pm, and Reporting Scotland broadcast as usual, but Scotland Today was replaced by STV's emergency tape of aerial shots of Scotland.
And I'm not even sure what thread to put this in anymore - but the BBC's early coverage of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing mostly consisted of Des Lynam linking into CNN.
ooft, that Scotland Today is pretty ropey.
It did bring to mind a time they didn't make it on air - sometime in the mid 90s when a major fault took Black Hill off the air. It was back by around 6pm, and Reporting Scotland broadcast as usual, but Scotland Today was replaced by STV's emergency tape of aerial shots of Scotland.
And I'm not even sure what thread to put this in anymore - but the BBC's early coverage of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing mostly consisted of Des Lynam linking into CNN.
I remember that, but it was Steve Rider linking in and out of NBC or CBS ISTR ?
