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harshy - harshy - 20-11-2023

(20-11-2023, 01:17 PM)Deejay Wrote:  You wouldn’t have known it was Children in Need at Broadcasting House on Friday.  There was absolutely nothing at all.  TVC on CIN night was a very exciting place to work indeed and there was a real buzz about the place, as there was at regional sites when regional output was a core part of the programme.  Quite sad to be honest.

Aah so regional opts were dropped I didn’t realise that’s a shame.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - lookoutwales - 24-11-2023

An oddity for you. On the face of it, what appears to be a standard Nine O'Clock News - or Main News, in this case - from November 1983, but not quite.

AFAIK, Celtic's UEFA Cup clash with Nottingham Forest was being shown live on this particular evening - but only on BBC1 Scotland (7.10 - 9.20pm). Highlights were shown elsewhere via Sportsnight.

So, what follows is a Scottish-only network bulletin, shown at 10.20pm, while everyone else got the Nine as usual (a drama called Spyship filled the gap in Scotland between the football and the news)

Content wise, there's nothing particularly outstanding but at least it's evidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFyMMTEHwo4 

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - DTV - 24-11-2023

(24-11-2023, 07:20 PM)lookoutwales Wrote:  So, what follows is a Scottish-only network bulletin, shown at 10.20pm, while everyone else got the Nine as usual (a drama called Spyship filled the gap in Scotland between the football and the news)

When was the last Scotland-only network bulletin? I know they still occasionally have cropped up in recent years, typically on weekends, but can't recall one in the last few.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - lookoutwales - 24-11-2023

(24-11-2023, 07:27 PM)DTV Wrote:  When was the last Scotland-only network bulletin? I know they still occasionally have cropped up in recent years, typically on weekends, but can't recall one in the last few.

In recent years, I think they've mostly cropped up on Hogmanay - and the odd Bank Holiday here and there.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Yorksman - 05-12-2023

On this day in 2013, Nelson Mandela died

The annoucement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piqIJKbO36E  - BBC News Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aaLVn1kR3c  - BBC One

Rolling Coverage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQupvH_Dn4c  - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGGvXlrRs5M  - Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmURmmlIyIU  - Part 3

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - VMPhil - 05-12-2023

Ah yes, fading down grandad on Mrs Brown's Boys getting hit on the head with a frying pan, then the bizarre announcement about a statement from President Zuma, and finally cutting inelegantly to the news channel. Not the BBC's finest hour...

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Larry the Loafer - 05-12-2023

(05-12-2023, 05:11 PM)VMPhil Wrote:  Ah yes, fading down grandad on Mrs Brown's Boys getting hit on the head with a frying pan, then the bizarre announcement about a statement from President Zuma, and finally cutting inelegantly to the news channel. Not the BBC's finest hour...

Not to mention it was only... (squints)... 11 minutes before the 10 O'Clock News was supposed to start.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Steve in Pudsey - 05-12-2023

(24-11-2023, 07:20 PM)lookoutwales Wrote:  An oddity for you. On the face of it, what appears to be a standard Nine O'Clock News - or Main News, in this case - from November 1983, but not quite.

AFAIK, Celtic's UEFA Cup clash with Nottingham Forest was being shown live on this particular evening - but only on BBC1 Scotland (7.10 - 9.20pm). Highlights were shown elsewhere via Sportsnight.

So, what follows is a Scottish-only network bulletin, shown at 10.20pm, while everyone else got the Nine as usual (a drama called Spyship filled the gap in Scotland between the football and the news)

Content wise, there's nothing particularly outstanding but at least it's evidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFyMMTEHwo4 

Was the weather live on that occasion? I'm wondering how they did that technically - you wouldn't want to have two separate circuits from London to Glasgow (one with the news studio and one with the weather studio) but obviously BBC1 presentation wasn't available to do that mix between the two studios. So perhaps the news studio took the weather studio (pres A) as an outside source or vice versa? Or was the weather a timeshift of network played out from Glasgow?

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - steve - 05-12-2023

(05-12-2023, 05:11 PM)VMPhil Wrote:  Ah yes, fading down grandad on Mrs Brown's Boys getting hit on the head with a frying pan, then the bizarre announcement about a statement from President Zuma, and finally cutting inelegantly to the news channel. Not the BBC's finest hour...

I still can’t get my head around how badly this was handled. Presumably Mandela was a Cat 1 which justified immediate interruption but the way it happened was just bizarre.

I wonder if the much more elegant way of interrupting programmes and going straight to news bypassing pres (as with DofE and when Buck Palace put out statement re QEII health) was partly a result of this shambles.

If they’d just run as normal for that 11 minutes into Huw at 10 it would have been immeasurably better.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - VMPhil - 05-12-2023

Forgot about this Sky blunder (posted by Whataday in the thread from the time on TVF)

https://up.metropol247.co.uk/Whataday/mandela-promo-1-522x293.jpg 

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