BBC Had To Replace Live Broadcasts With Recorded Material on its TV News Channels For an Hour Today Because of a Technical Glitch (bbc.com) 24
The BBC had to replace live broadcasts with recorded material on its TV news channels for about an hour on Wednesday following a technical glitch. BBC News reports: The News at Six was also presented from the BBC's Millbank studio instead of its usual home of New Broadcasting House. The issue affected OpenMedia, a new computer system rolled out across BBC News outlets over the past six months. OpenMedia supplier Annova has been helping to investigate the fault. Engineers believe they have now addressed the problem. BBC News Home Editor Mark Easton shared on social media that he was rushing across London to the Millbank studio.
The BBC had to replace live broadcasts today (Score:1, Funny)
The BBC had to replace live broadcasts with recorded material on its TV news channels for about an hour on Wednesday following a technical glitch. The BBC had to replace live broadcasts with recorded material on its TV news channels for about an hour on Wednesday following a technical glitch. The BBC had to replace live broadcasts with recorded material on its TV news channels for about an hour on Wednesday following a technical glitch. The BBC had to replace live broadcasts with recorded material on its TV
No disclaimer? (Score:1)
This newscast was prerecorded; events that were captured live were really captured at that moment. Due to some technical difficulties we will be broadcasting them with a delay of one hour, which will allow local law enforcement to dust for prints in the crime scene.
Re: (Score:1)
Maybe that explains it... but maybe not (Score:5, Funny)
I tuned in and saw this rather tall, thin guy reading the news from a desk on the beach for some reason. The newsreader said “and now for something completely different”, then they shifted to coverage of some bizarre event where people attempted to summarize Proust.
Please pray (Score:1, Insightful)
for all the people in Florida!
Statistical Analysis (Score:1)
The BBC did an analysis of variance on mean time between failures between the ANNOVA system, the previous software system, and doing it manually, and ANNOVA came in worst.
In other words, ANNOVA failed ANOVA.
(Yes, I am a father, but my son doesn't understand statistics, so I have to find another outlet for "Statistical Dad jokes.)
Meanwhile, in Moscow... (Score:2)
"Sergei...stop screwing around. This is only for special occasions."
Sergei: "Sorry, Comrade. It's only been about an hour. And I thought this was as special occasion." (Flips switch)
The Result (Score:2)
No one really noticed.
Viewer feedback (Score:2)
The BBC had to replace live broadcasts with recorded material on its TV news channels for about an hour on Wednesday
The BBC news channel is rolling news. It has a tiny audience and consists of the same 15 minute script repeated throughout the day.. All that changes is the person reading it and the short, light, "inserts" on subjects nobody cares about.
The question is: did anyone watching notice that it wasn't live. And if they did notice, did they care?
Annova? Anything to do with Ananova? (Score:3)
It's not the same product, but with it being news industry related and so similar a name, I wonder if it might have any of the same people around.
This just in from the BBC... (Score:1)
This just in from the BBC -- Argentina has invaded the Falkland Islands! [gifer.com]
Yaz
W1A (Score:2)
This just the beeb trying to remove any vestigial differences between real life an an episode of W1A.
New version of syncapatico anyone?