BBC Wales presentation

Joined: 9th March 2008
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Wales Today

Some problems earlier this evening on BBC One Wales, with the appearance of a local breakdown slide during X-Ray. It was handled well by the director (Dan Austin?), with the decision made to drop the 8pm BBC News update succeeding in getting us back on track ready for EastEnders.

Apologies for the large file size of these clips.

Breakdown slide (2:09, 14.9MB)

8pm junction (1:22, 9.5MB)

Steve in Pudsey

Joined: Before January 2003
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Yorkshire

Look North (Yorkshire)

Interesting that the breakdown caption is automatically accompanied by music in Wales, unlike the silent network counterpart. Presumably because the announcer/director has to talk to people to get the programme back on air rather than network's announcer who just has to keep the audience informed.

Tha can allus tell a YORKSHIREMAN but tha can't tell 'im MUCH

jumpinjack

Joined: 22nd March 2009
Posts: 77

Steve in Pudsey posted:

Interesting that the breakdown caption is automatically accompanied by music in Wales, unlike the silent network counterpart. Presumably because the announcer/director has to talk to people to get the programme back on air rather than network's announcer who just has to keep the audience informed.

Yes that's right. Also note that the breakdown caption background is shots from the idents, as opposed to Networks plain Red. Not sure about the use of Ident music though.....

SOL

Joined: 1st June 2004
Posts: 480
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STV Central

Reporting Scotland

Steve in Pudsey posted:

Interesting that the breakdown caption is automatically accompanied by music in Wales, unlike the silent network counterpart. Presumably because the announcer/director has to talk to people to get the programme back on air rather than network's announcer who just has to keep the audience informed.

Scotland has the music accompanying the breakdown slide as well. I saw it last year at some point when This Week came off air.

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