17-08-2022, 04:48 PM
I posted this in the TV talk forum, but I'll post it here as well. It concerns a fault, one afternoon on BBC2 Scotland in 1989, when you used to get a mid afternoon news bulletin, followed by a regional news bulletin on BBC2.
The national bulletin passed without a hitch. But, when BBC Scotland opted out to show the reporting Scotland bulletin, we saw the presenter, faintly, and could hear him faintly. However, overlaid on this, seen and heard more clearly, was the North west news! This was during the period when the whole of Cumbria, and not just the lower section, was in the BBC North West area.
We were able to see the north west news clearer, and could hear the presenter clearer, and faintly hear BBC Scotland, resulting in us hearing about stuff happening in the North West, especially Cumbria and the north of Lancashire! Right at the end, when the bulletins finished, was when the North West disappeared, and the fault was corrected.
How could such an event have occurred? There was no apology, and it seemed like no attempt was made to fix it, just the fault ended right at the end, when the North west disappeared, and we heard the BBC Scotland rpesenter saying goodbye?
The national bulletin passed without a hitch. But, when BBC Scotland opted out to show the reporting Scotland bulletin, we saw the presenter, faintly, and could hear him faintly. However, overlaid on this, seen and heard more clearly, was the North west news! This was during the period when the whole of Cumbria, and not just the lower section, was in the BBC North West area.
We were able to see the north west news clearer, and could hear the presenter clearer, and faintly hear BBC Scotland, resulting in us hearing about stuff happening in the North West, especially Cumbria and the north of Lancashire! Right at the end, when the bulletins finished, was when the North West disappeared, and the fault was corrected.
How could such an event have occurred? There was no apology, and it seemed like no attempt was made to fix it, just the fault ended right at the end, when the North west disappeared, and we heard the BBC Scotland rpesenter saying goodbye?