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In the case of the (in-house) Nations Pres operations, they operate their own 'buddy' system among themselves.

Definitely recall two occasions when Northern Ireland stepped in for Wales (in both cases, there was a power cut at the old Broadcasting House in Llandaff)

On the first occasion, it was a straight relay of BBC1 NI for a few hours on a Sunday afternoon (though I seem to recall both were following the same schedule)

The second time around, Wales had a couple of opts on a Friday night - initially, it was another BBC1 NI relay (think they were showing a Garden Rescue repeat while Wales were due to show a Weatherman Walking repeat - which had to be dropped)

But after EastEnders, NI were able to start a bespoke BBC1 Wales service from its spare Pres suite in Belfast (their head of Pres, Mark Simpson, took charge), which allowed them to show the later opt as scheduled and the timeshifted line-up, more or less as planned (Llandaff had got some of its power back by then, but the late Wales Today bulletin was rather makeshift)

Given the circumstances, it worked impressively well.

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