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This Trump stream on the front page of iPlayer has been a bit odd/interesting. Started at 14:15 with Lewis Vaughan Jones and later a female presenter, both in voiceover only (and not with great mics, either). At times they were doing fairly complex things like live interviews with reporters on camera at the scene, at other times they were just silently sitting on live pictures for minutes on end. At 17:00, when things were actually starting to happen, the feed switched to the actual news channel output with Matthew Amroliwala.

Seems to be from the breaking news team again, but as this time their output wasn't going out on the main channel it was a bit more basic and they didn't need to keep filling while waiting for something to happen. I think the fact that yesterday's sentencing coverage was also one of these streams on the front page of iPlayer is why they weren't going off to other UK stories when it was clear there would be a wait for anything to happen - while that would've been a good idea for the sake of news channel viewers, the feed was labelled as just being about that one story which might be why they felt the need to keep rolling with it.

You do get the sense that the higher-ups see this sort of pop-up feed as the future (when it comes to live TV in general, really).