UK Tod///k North

There was a cock-up tonight on BBC ONE in Yorkshire.

at 10.30pm, the UK Today Sting started, but then about 4 seconds in, we crashed into the Look North sting which had just about finished.

They'd obviously pressed 'Play' on the sting, but forgotten to press 'Opt Out'

Did a similar mistake take place in the east of the region?

I didn't watch! The only night I don't watch the BBC 10 O Clock News and a cock up happens! Bugger!

I saw it!
Ian White said 'and now the news for yorkshire

bless!

Us Forum members eh?! The obsession with cock-ups gets bigger every month!

I remember the same kind of cock-up happening with Midlands Today on analogue terrestrial many months ago (Unlike now, I didn't have Sky Digital at the time).

At 1759 we got the [ B ][ B ][ C ] ONE
Midlands clock.
And we got the MidTdy 1800 and 1815 headline inserts. All well and good as usual.

However, come 1830, we got the generic [ B ][ B ][ C ] ONE balloon, with 'We're sorry...' announcement (as opposed to '...press 'tv', then button '1'...' announcement used exclusively on digital satellite).

We then saw the UK Today presenter (I can't remember who it was) greet us and start reading the headlines, accompanied by footage.

When she was 3/4 of the way through saying the first headline, we cut to MidTdy, who were also mid-sentence. We had missed the first MidTdy headline completely, the mid-sentence we came in on was the second headline.

Obviously MidTdy had actually started on time, it's just that nobody had pressed the opting button.

Only a few weeks later, the 1330 edition of MidTdy fell off air partway through, and we saw the second half of UK Today until 1345. On that evening's 1830 MidTdy, Nick Owen mentioned that the lunchtime show had fallen off air, and said 'we hope you didn't enjoy whatever you saw instead too much' . But frankly I did enjoy it more...