BBC News Channel General Discussion

What happened?

Chris is back LIVE after recorded Sport

Playout problems. Chris had to fill in vision before they could put Reporters on.

I assume they cut Reporters short to go to a paper review. I didn't watch the whole thing through. Did the film review get to air?

Now showing 5 Million Ways to be Scottish instead of scheduled Reporters.

Looking back on iPlayer rewind, a short edition of Reporters was shown at 23:25 and The Papers followed straight away at 23:35. The Film Review was on at the normal time.

Must say Chris' filling in to cover the technical issues before Reporters was very good - I'm picturing the Cathy Newman technical issues moment...

Judging by the trundle cam's rather static and odd position, could it have been that which threw everything else into spasm. I seem to recall the trundle cam failing in the past causing some odd technical problems?

Yes it seems to have that effect. Last time it happened it required as studio change , something which is probably to much effort for that time in the evening.

The BBC weather sign above the weather area on the trundle cam seems to have been pulled down leaving a bit of a mess behind - you'd think they would be hiding it on-camera until whatever they're up to is finished:

It's been removed as Outside Source will share the presentation area for some parts of the programme.

Could they not just put a 103" up in Studio K or the MPA for OS?