06-02-2024, 03:33 PM
(06-02-2024, 02:31 PM)leewilliams Wrote: I’m not sure Absolute’s owner Bauer has the option of doing this because of the way the stations operate technically (all running off the playout software RCS Zetta but quite siloed) - as far as I’m aware, they don’t do any live news on any station and there’s no line down which a live bulletin could be broadcast.
I can imagine there would be a way of getting a single bulletin loaded into Zetta to replace all existing news carts in time for an announcement like that.
But if their newsroom didn't get a headups and only found out via IRN flashing it at 17:57, that's far too late for anything to be done.