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Handled perfectly. Even broke into the weather with a breaking news sting and didn’t miss a second of the news conference.

Christian Fraser has stayed on air on the News Channel, but then handed over to Outside Source which was in full flow. Perfectly acceptable in my view. So long as this sort of coverage continues, I’ll be happy.

Also the fact that this is the kind of story they're willing to break into schedules for now, before the new breaking team is in operation, bodes pretty well in terms of how frequent the future opt-outs will be. Obviously we have to wait to see how it works in practice, but certainly a good few signs recently that the channel will err more towards 'not crap' than the other options.