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I watched the 18:00 News yesterday on BBC 1. The national bit was OK,
then they handed over to the regions. So what happened? The pictures
came from London, but the sound from Bristol! This lasted for 8 of the
10 minute allocation until someone noticed. I'm on the Mendip tx if that
makes any difference.

Hugh

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:06:34 +0000, Hugh Newbury
wrote:

I watched the 18:00 News yesterday on BBC 1.

Actually the 19:00 news.

The national bit was OK,
then they handed over to the regions. So what happened? The pictures
came from London, but the sound from Bristol! This lasted for 8 of the
10 minute allocation until someone noticed.

Why did you choose to exaggerate the figures by a factor of 2?
The actual times were 3:50 out of 5:00.
I can assure you someone noticed fairly quickly, but obviously deciding
what the problem was and how best to effect the solution was not
immediately obvious, although perhaps it should have been.

I'm on the Mendip tx if that makes any difference.

Yes it does.

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On 10/02/13 10:27, Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:06:34 +0000, Hugh Newbury
wrote:

I watched the 18:00 News yesterday on BBC 1.

Actually the 19:00 news.

The national bit was OK,
then they handed over to the regions. So what happened? The pictures
came from London, but the sound from Bristol! This lasted for 8 of the
10 minute allocation until someone noticed.

Why did you choose to exaggerate the figures by a factor of 2?
The actual times were 3:50 out of 5:00.
I can assure you someone noticed fairly quickly, but obviously deciding
what the problem was and how best to effect the solution was not
immediately obvious, although perhaps it should have been.

I'm on the Mendip tx if that makes any difference.

Yes it does.


You're right. I was checking the time in the Radio Times, but looked at
today's page instead of yesterday's.

Hugh

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:57:44 +0000
Hugh Newbury wrote:

On 10/02/13 10:27, Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:06:34 +0000, Hugh Newbury
wrote:

I watched the 18:00 News yesterday on BBC 1.

Actually the 19:00 news.

The national bit was OK,
then they handed over to the regions. So what happened? The
pictures came from London, but the sound from Bristol! This lasted
for 8 of the 10 minute allocation until someone noticed.

Why did you choose to exaggerate the figures by a factor of 2?
The actual times were 3:50 out of 5:00.
I can assure you someone noticed fairly quickly, but obviously
deciding what the problem was and how best to effect the solution
was not immediately obvious, although perhaps it should have been.

I'm on the Mendip tx if that makes any difference.

Yes it does.


You're right. I was checking the time in the Radio Times, but looked
at today's page instead of yesterday's.

Hugh


And the Radio Times can be wrong. It says that The One Show starts at
7:00 pm, but it often starts 2 minutes before that.
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Davey wrote:

And the Radio Times can be wrong. It says that The One Show starts at
7:00 pm, but it often starts 2 minutes before that.

Actually, I don't think The One Show *ever* starts as late as 19:00:00 ? !


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Davey wrote:

And the Radio Times can be wrong. It says that The One Show starts at
7:00 pm, but it often starts 2 minutes before that.

Actually, I don't think The One Show *ever* starts as late as 19:00:00 ? !


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It is designed so you can watch 2 minutes of rubbish and the switch over for
some intelligent TV from Channel 4 News.

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On 10/02/2013 08:06, Hugh Newbury wrote:
I watched the 18:00 News yesterday on BBC 1. The national bit was OK,
then they handed over to the regions. So what happened? The pictures
came from London, but the sound from Bristol! This lasted for 8 of the
10 minute allocation until someone noticed. I'm on the Mendip tx if that
makes any difference.

Hugh


Last week (Wednesday I think it was) the local regional news broadcasts
at 06:25 and 06:55 for the BBC London region were replaced with the
local South East news, covering Kent and Sussex instead. There was
clearly an issue, because during the 06:55 broadcast the presenter
'welcomed' viewers from London. No idea what the issue was, no on-air
apology either.


Clem

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Clem Dye wrote:

Last week (Wednesday I think it was) the local regional news broadcasts
at 06:25 and 06:55 for the BBC London region were replaced with the
local South East news, covering Kent and Sussex instead. There was
clearly an issue, because during the 06:55 broadcast the presenter
'welcomed' viewers from London. No idea what the issue was, no on-air
apology either.

That's normally because the London news presenter has overslept/had their car
fail to start/had the reminder ap on their smartphone crash.... etc


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On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:19:56 +0000, Davey wrote:

And the Radio Times can be wrong. It says that The One Show starts at
7:00 pm, but it often starts 2 minutes before that.

It's so they can fit in approx. 2 minutes of news at 19:58.
Programmes that notionally start at 19:30 also tend to start at
19:28 for the same reason, obviously.

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:19:38 +0000, Clem Dye
wrote:

Last week (Wednesday I think it was) the local regional news broadcasts
at 06:25 and 06:55 for the BBC London region were replaced with the
local South East news, covering Kent and Sussex instead. There was
clearly an issue, because during the 06:55 broadcast the presenter
'welcomed' viewers from London. No idea what the issue was, no on-air
apology either.

Apparently the presenter didn't turn up for whatever reason.

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On 10/02/2013 08:06, Hugh Newbury wrote:
I watched the 18:00 News yesterday on BBC 1. The national bit was OK,
then they handed over to the regions. So what happened? The pictures
came from London, but the sound from Bristol! This lasted for 8 of the
10 minute allocation until someone noticed. I'm on the Mendip tx if that
makes any difference.

Hugh

It happened on satellite too.

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Chris wrote:
On 10/02/2013 08:06, Hugh Newbury wrote:
I watched the 18:00 News yesterday on BBC 1. The national bit was OK,
then they handed over to the regions. So what happened? The pictures
came from London, but the sound from Bristol! This lasted for 8 of the
10 minute allocation until someone noticed. I'm on the Mendip tx if that
makes any difference.

Hugh

It happened on satellite too.

Of course, the Beeb have very strict 'Platform Neutrality' rules :-)


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I guess they can't afford the batteries for their hearing aids these days.

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"Hugh Newbury" wrote in message
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I watched the 18:00 News yesterday on BBC 1. The national bit was OK, then
they handed over to the regions. So what happened? The pictures came from
London, but the sound from Bristol! This lasted for 8 of the 10 minute
allocation until someone noticed. I'm on the Mendip tx if that makes any
difference.

Hugh

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:32:49 +0000, Chris wrote:

I watched the 18:00 News yesterday on BBC 1. The national bit was OK,
then they handed over to the regions. So what happened? The pictures
came from London, but the sound from Bristol! This lasted for 8 of the
10 minute allocation until someone noticed. I'm on the Mendip tx if that
makes any difference.

It happened on satellite too.

Well it would, as it was a studio output switching fault.

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Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:19:38 +0000, Clem Dye
wrote:

Last week (Wednesday I think it was) the local regional news broadcasts
at 06:25 and 06:55 for the BBC London region were replaced with the
local South East news, covering Kent and Sussex instead. There was
clearly an issue, because during the 06:55 broadcast the presenter
'welcomed' viewers from London. No idea what the issue was, no on-air
apology either.

Apparently the presenter didn't turn up for whatever reason.
Why couldn't someone else step in? They would only have had to read a
script wouldn't they? Manuel out of Fawlty Towers could do it. Mr Bean
could do it.

Bill

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Bill Wright wrote:

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

Apparently the presenter didn't turn up for whatever reason.

Why couldn't someone else step in?

teethsucking

Wrong union you see, can't have that.