01-09-2022, 01:48 AM
This brings back a lot of memories.
I was the newsreader on Downtown Radio and Cool FM that morning and afternoon. A Sunday morning, so just me and the duty editor first thing.
Our terrible newsroom computer system had broken down a day or so before, and we had a couple of printers lashed up printing out the news wires.
That would be kind of acceptable as a temporary solution on any other weekend, but that day the paper was endlessly shooting out of the printers. It was almost impossible to find the copy you wanted or cues you needed to go with the endless clips being fed from IRN in London.
I had to present specially extended news bulletins throughout the day. It was a mad day.
I was the newsreader on Downtown Radio and Cool FM that morning and afternoon. A Sunday morning, so just me and the duty editor first thing.
Our terrible newsroom computer system had broken down a day or so before, and we had a couple of printers lashed up printing out the news wires.
That would be kind of acceptable as a temporary solution on any other weekend, but that day the paper was endlessly shooting out of the printers. It was almost impossible to find the copy you wanted or cues you needed to go with the endless clips being fed from IRN in London.
I had to present specially extended news bulletins throughout the day. It was a mad day.
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