[interestednovice]

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.

However, NC still had its own name on its lower third along Global branding, not "BBC World News" that they crashed into. Or is this substitution done automatically, without additional gallery?

Also, why could not the opt-out from the Six be done in the same way as from LK? Or is the latter on the News Channel done by the World News gallery as well?

I think the point is that opting-out of LK was easier because it was on air continuously from Studio B, using B’s gallery, but no other output was on air from the News Channel - it was also broadcasting from B’s gallery, with the separate lower thirds treatment.

Coming up to the opt-out point, the feed for the NC and WN would have been switched to Studio E or C’s gallery (depending on which was used) and a soft-opt conducted where the gallery could bring up the feed from Studio B’s output, pick a point to “fade out” to the filler and then take over the broadcast with unique content from the second gallery.

In this case, B’s gallery was broadcasting the News at Six and BBC World News (in C’s gallery) was already rolling with the breaking news. There was therefore no “free gallery” able to be staffed-up for a proper soft-opt switch out. In theory, A could have done it but it would have required extra staff.

The BBC News or BBC World News branding substitution is done automatically by Viz - it’s how programmes which are simulcast can easily show the “correct” brand to both audiences. The substitution can even cover things like BBC News vs BBC World News logos in the titles, too.