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RE: Queen Elizabeth Health - steve - 08-09-2022

Yes, this is the Head of State. And she's been Head of State for over 70 years. Pretty much every part of how this country is run is under the banner of 'Her Majesty's...'

What we're about to see is going to be of a magnitude and scope beyond what most of us have seen.

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RE: Queen Elizabeth Health - JAS84 - 08-09-2022

At the very least, they shouldn't be having BBC One and Two both simulcasting BBC News, and BBC Four off air, which is what happened last time. Wall to wall coverage only on One and News should be fine - Two, Three (which wasn't on air when Philip died) and Four should be offering alternative programming.

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RE: Queen Elizabeth Health - TVenthusiasm - 08-09-2022

Here's hoping Operation Unicorn does not get activated - thoughts are with the Royal family

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RE: Queen Elizabeth Health - Worzel - 08-09-2022

(08-09-2022, 02:21 PM)Critique Wrote:  

(08-09-2022, 02:19 PM)Worzel Wrote:  Is Huw going out on World?

He is indeed - am abroad at the moment and have just retreated to the hotel in search of BBC World News. The other international news channels not generally rolling with the story.

Thanks. Am currently on holiday so don't have access to my usual World stream.

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RE: Queen Elizabeth Health - aaron_scotland - 08-09-2022

(08-09-2022, 02:42 PM)TVenthusiasm Wrote:  Here's hoping Operation London Bridge does not get activated - thoughts are with the Royal family

It would be Operation Unicorn as she is at Balmoral.

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RE: Queen Elizabeth Health - Chud - 08-09-2022

BSL still going on the news channel.

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RE: Queen Elizabeth Health - TVenthusiasm - 08-09-2022

(08-09-2022, 02:43 PM)aaron_scotland Wrote:  

(08-09-2022, 02:42 PM)TVenthusiasm Wrote:  Here's hoping Operation London Bridge does not get activated - thoughts are with the Royal family

It would be Operation Unicorn as she is at Balmoral.

Oh right thanks for correcting

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RE: Queen Elizabeth Health - aaron_scotland - 08-09-2022

(08-09-2022, 02:46 PM)TVenthusiasm Wrote:  

(08-09-2022, 02:43 PM)aaron_scotland Wrote:  

(08-09-2022, 02:42 PM)TVenthusiasm Wrote:  Here's hoping Operation London Bridge does not get activated - thoughts are with the Royal family

It would be Operation Unicorn as she is at Balmoral.

Oh right thanks for correcting

I felt a bit pedantic correcting you, but if you look them up theres totally different planning in regard to where she will lie in state etc.

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RE: Queen Elizabeth Health - BBCMeridian - 08-09-2022

(08-09-2022, 02:42 PM)JAS84 Wrote:  At the very least, they shouldn't be having BBC One and Two both simulcasting BBC News, and BBC Four off air, which is what happened last time. Wall to wall coverage only on One and News should be fine - Two, Three (which wasn't on air when Philip died) and Four should be offering alternative programming.

With respect I completely disagree with you, BBC Two is an important channel as well, not just BBC One, so it was right that programmes on BBC Two were and should suspended to simulcast with BBC One and cover news like this and right that programmes on BBC Four got suspended as well.

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RE: Queen Elizabeth Health - Stooky Bill - 08-09-2022

(08-09-2022, 02:39 PM)qwerty123 Wrote:  

(08-09-2022, 02:35 PM)ALV Wrote:  

(08-09-2022, 02:13 PM)Renap Wrote:  Surprised they never used the new studio for this when they switched to Huw. As they could have changed the background for it.

If it doesn't exist now, they probably are going to deal with that theme soon.

Switching studios isn’t as simple as you think in this scenario

For starters BBC One is taking the network TX feed so you need to coordinate with network controllers to ask One to switch to Studio B at a designated time with the NC

Secondly you probably need at another gallery crew to setup, since the current on duty NC crew is on air - which I’m not sure if they have a spare crew on standby in breaking news situations like currently…

The end goal is to get information out quickly, so it’s best to keep things simple

A second gallery crew in itself shouldn't be too much of an issue given the NC and World are currently in an unscheduled simulcast meaning the world crew would essentially be free to get another studio on air. The bigger issue from that perspective would be whether either of the duty crews are trained on B given NC and World are yet to come from B outside of BBC1 simulcast.

The bigger issue is getting Huw from one studio to another mid rolling news. They don't have a package they can go to while he goes down two floors. 

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(08-09-2022, 02:51 PM)BBCMeridian Wrote:  

(08-09-2022, 02:42 PM)JAS84 Wrote:  At the very least, they shouldn't be having BBC One and Two both simulcasting BBC News, and BBC Four off air, which is what happened last time. Wall to wall coverage only on One and News should be fine - Two, Three (which wasn't on air when Philip died) and Four should be offering alternative programming.

With respect I completely disagree with you, BBC Two is an important channel as well, not just BBC One, so it was right that programmes on BBC Two were and should suspended to simulcast with BBC One and cover news like this and right that programmes on BBC Four got suspended as well.

There's no question of BBC Two being left out. When these events happen all the TV channels are brought together (or display captions in the case of the children's channels) 

Last time round (and who'd have thought we'd have it twice in 18 months) BBC4 was taken off air more for technical concerns - having 6 channels with the same content causes issues with the statistical multiplexing 

I suspect BBC3 and 4 will be taken off this time round

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