A question of time shift? Possibly OT?

I have always believed that the main BBC news was broadcast to the
whole nation at the same time. On Sunday, I noticed that the BBC "10
O'Clock" news was being broadcast at 10.30pm, following the Julie
Walters drama, to most of the UK whilst in Scotland we were treated to
a special edition of Celtic Connections celebrating one Burns, Robert
who happened to have been born on that day 250 years earlier. Our
news was timed to be at 11.00pm. Now I gave up and went to bed before
11.00pm but I could not help wondering afterwards if the newsreader
had to do everything twice or if the BBC had some devious time shift
(aka as recording) to delay transmission in Scotland so that everyone
still believed that they were seeing the "live" news. Could this be
the start of a trend? Just being curious.....

Well, I do know that some years ago they did record the news an hour earlier
and just put it out when it was feasible due to some kind of live event or
something. I think they still had a live studio and a reader standing by in
case of late breaking news though.
Its done all the time on radio stations both BBC and Commercial, and only
redone when things alter. I know as I've heard the same fluffs on different
broadcasts.

Brian

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I have always believed that the main BBC news was broadcast to the
whole nation at the same time. On Sunday, I noticed that the BBC "10
O'Clock" news was being broadcast at 10.30pm, following the Julie
Walters drama, to most of the UK whilst in Scotland we were treated to
a special edition of Celtic Connections celebrating one Burns, Robert
who happened to have been born on that day 250 years earlier. Our
news was timed to be at 11.00pm. Now I gave up and went to bed before
11.00pm but I could not help wondering afterwards if the newsreader
had to do everything twice or if the BBC had some devious time shift
(aka as recording) to delay transmission in Scotland so that everyone
still believed that they were seeing the "live" news. Could this be
the start of a trend? Just being curious.....

ChrisW wrote:
I have always believed that the main BBC news was broadcast to the
whole nation at the same time. On Sunday, I noticed that the BBC "10
O'Clock" news was being broadcast at 10.30pm, following the Julie
Walters drama, to most of the UK whilst in Scotland we were treated to
a special edition of Celtic Connections celebrating one Burns, Robert
who happened to have been born on that day 250 years earlier. Our
news was timed to be at 11.00pm. Now I gave up and went to bed before
11.00pm but I could not help wondering afterwards if the newsreader
had to do everything twice or if the BBC had some devious time shift
(aka as recording) to delay transmission in Scotland so that everyone
still believed that they were seeing the "live" news. Could this be
the start of a trend? Just being curious.....


Many BBC 1 News bulletin are now simply simulcasts with the BBC News Channel
(aka News 24), most notably the weekday 10pm news. I suspect BBC 1 Scotland,
opted into to there at 11pm ?


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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:30:54 +0000, ChrisW wrote:

but I could not help wondering afterwards if the newsreader
had to do everything twice

According to the Digital $py forums, a separate edition of the BBC News
was broadcast to Scotland, and that this is not as rare as one might
think, since it occurs at other times of the year when events
(sports etc) in Northern Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, run longer than the
equivalent program being shewn on the BBC London-centric network feed.

ChrisW wrote:
I have always believed that the main BBC news was broadcast to the
whole nation at the same time. On Sunday, I noticed that the BBC "10
O'Clock" news was being broadcast at 10.30pm, following the Julie
Walters drama, to most of the UK whilst in Scotland we were treated to
a special edition of Celtic Connections celebrating one Burns, Robert
who happened to have been born on that day 250 years earlier. Our
news was timed to be at 11.00pm. Now I gave up and went to bed before
11.00pm but I could not help wondering afterwards if the newsreader
had to do everything twice or if the BBC had some devious time shift
(aka as recording) to delay transmission in Scotland so that everyone
still believed that they were seeing the "live" news. Could this be
the start of a trend? Just being curious.....

Time-shifting the news is definite no-no as BBC News are very protective
about accuracy and any news which has been time-shifted has the
potential to be seriously out of date.

All Nations have the ability to time shift items, and have been doing so
for a long time. Usually just a recording of the London source for live
programmes, much easier now than it used to be when videotape was used.

JN