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At exactly 6:30pm, the BBC News Channel crashed out of the BBC News at Six mid-report and appeared to switch to BBC World News which was taking Rishi Sunak’s speech to Parliament live. The clue was that the Global branding briefly appeared on the flipper, before being faded off in favour of the red Breaking News graphics.

Quite poor to not even hand over with a sting or something of that nature.

I think the question at present for that scenario is where the sting would come from, neither the News at Six or the World News programme would be able to do anything without interrupting their ongoing output so it would require a third gallery to pass through, as the News Channel operates by switching between galleries - it doesn't have it's own presentation suite to play anything else in.

This type of thing, at least, will be solved by the upcoming changes.

Actually, I think the current infrastructure allows a sting to be played without a third studio.

A video I captured of WN opting out of Sunday with LK recently showed that Studio B has the capability of fading out the audio AND inserting a sting into one of the TX line out to WN Pres WHILE the main programme continues on the BBC One/NC TX line...

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I think a similar mechanism can be adopted in this scenario... However this requires precise timing coordination in between Studio B and C's directors. Studio C's director needs to ask the presenter to pause, wait for Studio B's director insert the sting and switch NC's feed, verify their gallery TX is active on the NC, then cue the presenter... I'm not sure if this workflow can be carried out smoothly during breaking news scenarios...