17-09-2023, 11:59 AM
(17-09-2023, 12:29 AM)Rolling News Wrote: As far as I’m aware, they come from Washington from 11pm at the weekend. I’ve just checked the schedule for the World feed and they appeared to opt out for their own programming tonight around 10:10pm, which might explain why we were getting more time checks etc. The balcony area is never used at weekends (which I totally agree still looks awful).
Ah, I see, so all of that didn’t go out on the global feed. I wasn’t quite sure if it was UK-only, as it felt like it was but these things are difficult to tell on “feel” alone. I must have not realised there was an opt point at 10:10pm.
Interesting that 11pm is the regular weekend Washington switch, I am sure I have seen several times where it happened at 10pm at weekends but that might have been due to prominent US news such as Trump arraignments being covered?
I think there is at least the technical capability to broadcast from Studio C or E on either channel (like the good old days!) so theoretically opt-outs can come from the spare studio on weekends. I suppose we haven’t seen that tested yet as we haven’t had a big UK-only story breaking on a weekend yet.