Reporting Scotland tonight - what happened?

London tonight was shown until about 6.50 then Jacky Bird appeared
looking a bit flustered. We had 10 minutes of RS and Jacky apologised
for the truncated programme 'due to factors beyond our control'.

This was digital and analogue. Any idea what happened?

Scott

"Scott" wrote in message
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London tonight was shown until about 6.50 then Jacky Bird appeared
looking a bit flustered. We had 10 minutes of RS and Jacky apologised
for the truncated programme 'due to factors beyond our control'.

This was digital and analogue. Any idea what happened?

Scott

There was a fire alarm and the building was evacuated, apparently.

Scott wrote:
London tonight was shown until about 6.50 then Jacky Bird appeared
looking a bit flustered. We had 10 minutes of RS and Jacky apologised
for the truncated programme 'due to factors beyond our control'.

This was digital and analogue. Any idea what happened?

Scott

accord to a thread running over on u.t.broadcast something to do with
a Fire Alarm

"Scott" wrote in message
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London tonight was shown until about 6.50 then Jacky Bird appeared

You managed to get "London Tonight" on the BBC ?

"Zorst" wrote in message
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"Scott" wrote in message
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London tonight was shown until about 6.50 then Jacky Bird appeared

You managed to get "London Tonight" on the BBC ?




It was BBC London that was on screen. I switched the TV on at about 6-45pm
to find it instead of Reporting Scotland. Initially I thought it was another
instance of BBC incompetence since there have been numerous occasions in the
past in my experience when they have shown the London programme as happened
this evening. Generally this has gone on for a brief period presumably till
they realised there had been yet another cockup. Funny is it not that what
is supposed to be a news programme cannot give a credible explanation other
than "circumstances beyond our control".

"AJM" wrote in message
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"Zorst" wrote in message
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"Scott" wrote in message
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London tonight was shown until about 6.50 then Jacky Bird appeared

You managed to get "London Tonight" on the BBC ?




It was BBC London that was on screen. I switched the TV on at about 6-45pm
to find it instead of Reporting Scotland. Initially I thought it was
another instance of BBC incompetence since there have been numerous
occasions in the past in my experience when they have shown the London
programme as happened this evening. Generally this has gone on for a brief
period presumably till they realised there had been yet another cockup.
Funny is it not that what is supposed to be a news programme cannot give a
credible explanation other than "circumstances beyond our control".

Made the front page of the daily record: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ .
Don't know why this is a headline, most Scots are very used to
London-centric news.

Z

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:36:42 +0100, "AJM"
wrote:


"Zorst" wrote in message
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"Scott" wrote in message
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London tonight was shown until about 6.50 then Jacky Bird appeared

You managed to get "London Tonight" on the BBC ?




It was BBC London that was on screen. I switched the TV on at about 6-45pm
to find it instead of Reporting Scotland. Initially I thought it was another
instance of BBC incompetence since there have been numerous occasions in the
past in my experience when they have shown the London programme as happened
this evening. Generally this has gone on for a brief period presumably till
they realised there had been yet another cockup. Funny is it not that what
is supposed to be a news programme cannot give a credible explanation other
than "circumstances beyond our control".

And funny how BBC London could not say: "Welcome to viewers in
Scotland who may not be expecting to see this programme. The reason
is that there has been a fire alarm activation at our Scottish studio.
We will bring you more information as soon as we can."

I assume at least one of the highly incentivised BBC managers owns a
mobile phone and could phone Television Centre.

Scott wrote:
London tonight was shown until about 6.50 then Jacky Bird appeared
looking a bit flustered. We had 10 minutes of RS and Jacky apologised
for the truncated programme 'due to factors beyond our control'.

This was digital and analogue. Any idea what happened?

Scott


Can't see the problem or why the Daily Record has to even bother to
report this. We in the London area seem to have our political news set
by Scots anyway.

(OK, we know you don't like them either).

On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:04:15 +0100, Scott wrote:

And funny how BBC London could not say: "Welcome to viewers in
Scotland who may not be expecting to see this programme. The reason
is that there has been a fire alarm activation at our Scottish studio.
We will bring you more information as soon as we can."

I assume at least one of the highly incentivised BBC managers owns a
mobile phone and could phone Television Centre.

That programme doesn't come from TVC.

On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:04:15 +0100, Scott
wrote:

And funny how BBC London could not say: "Welcome to viewers in
Scotland who may not be expecting to see this programme. The reason
is that there has been a fire alarm activation at our Scottish studio.
We will bring you more information as soon as we can."

You'd *think* BBC London would show willing.. :-O

I assume at least one of the highly incentivised BBC managers owns a
mobile phone and could phone Television Centre.

It would probably take so long to get the message to the studio and
out on air that the Scottish manager would be quicker waiting on the
'all clear' and TX'ing his own message. News programme timings tend to
be to within a few seconds these days. Just sticking in a short
paragraph can be a pain because the likely way to cover it is for the
News Reader to speed up speaking, which isn't ideal.

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Z