BBC News Channel General Discussion

Caption error . . .

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Not the first time that's happened recently. Spotted a similar one last week (was watching at work and forgot about it until now)

Has it always been normal for the little side aston (e.g. "The Andrew Marr Show, BBC One") to wipe up instead of wipe from the right, when a special side picture is being used (E.g. PM questions has Houses of Parliament and now the oscars has a side image) as it is aligned with the little side image. sorry if you don't get what I mean, I'm not he best at explaining things

Yes

I read on Twitter that the News Channel were showing live coverage of the space walk this lunchtime, but as Tim Peake happened to leave the space station at just before one, they had to leave the live coverage to simulcast the BBC News at One o'clock. Leaving Sky News with exclusive coverage.

Surprised me too, however they did have, well signposted, the entire exercise from start to abort online. Would have been ideal Connected Red Button material, but that wasn't used.

We're getting 5 mins of countdown filler in the run up to the BBC News at Ten.

Rewatched, seems a recorded weather insert failed, a still Sarah Keith-Lucas frame then nothing, 1030 promo then several countdowns repeated.

Dodgy TOTH sequence at 23:00 tonight. At 22:59, the end of the weather forecast transitioned to the TOTH countdown as usual (with about 52 seconds until 23:00) but this was replaced almost immediately by Maxine Croxall looking startled as she realised she was already back on camera, as someone was handing her her script. She then went into the headlines a few seconds before it turned 23:00.

Why do the BBC make themselves look like amateurs?

It's almost as if broadcasting live TV news 24 hours a day is complicated, or something...



Not saying that the BBC News Channel hasn't had more than its fair share of glitches and stuff-ups of late, but BBC News is a huge organisation that runs two news channels simultaneously. Stuff is going to go wrong. As for the particular issue that you mentioned, it hardly seems like an earth-shattering failure. They still were able to broadcast the news.

I'm a bit curious if there's a major breaking news event that warranted being simulcast on BBC One is there a special intro used for it to gain viewers attention?

Here the networks all have special opens for when they break into local or network programming. The stations that are airing local programming get a warning ahead of time with a five or ten second countdown before the report starts.

Here's a rare example of an NBC News Special report that was produced by and aired on MSNBC:



Normally NBC and MSNBC do their own thing but Lester Holt wasn't available and the Today Show hosts likely left for the day the only person was available was Brian Williams who was already anchoring MSNBC coverage.

Not really. Unless BBC One are already in a news programme, you'll most likely see a BBC One ident and then cut to the News Channel presenter who will have paused for the junction (or straight to live coverage). Depending on the story they might wait for the next break on BBC One, or if it's important enough, will interrupt a programme.

Someone will be along shortly with examples (good and bad) from YouTube. Pretty sure we had this discussion in another thread not long ago but I cannot find it.