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Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

(February 2020)

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ST
Stuart
I doubt this press conference is going to end by 17:15, so expect some filler programme to be broadcast in place of Pointless.
WA
Warbler
News Special on BBC1 extended to 18:00, Pointless moved to BBC2 at 17:45.
RH
richard h
and there we have it...Boris Johnson says this is the worst health crisis of a generation and I must level with you many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time

it does not get more serious than that
MA
Markymark
richard h posted:
and there we have it...Boris Johnson says this is the worst health crisis of a generation and I must level with you many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time

it does not get more serious than that


I'm the same age as Boris J, I don't recall anything in the UK worse than this in my living memory, which is more than a generation.

My Gt Grandmother was killed by Spanish Flu in 1918, probably the worst since then?
BR
Brekkie
Tony Hall has said some BBC services may be scaled back if necessary during the crisis.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51851414
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Andrew Founding member
Warbler posted:
Pointless moved to BBC2 at 17:45.

Why? Why not just drop it for a day rather than messing about with BBC2’s schedule?
MA
Markymark
Brekkie posted:
Tony Hall has said some BBC services may be scaled back if necessary during the crisis.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51851414


Anybody want to put a bet on when the first DS post appears demanding a licence fee refund?
MA
Markymark
Andrew posted:
Warbler posted:
Pointless moved to BBC2 at 17:45.

Why? Why not just drop it for a day rather than messing about with BBC2’s schedule?


It seems to have aquired a similar 'must show no matter what' status as EastEnders
NE
Newsroom
Carrie Gracie anchoring the second half of this news special on BBC One/NC- Brilliant.

'She ain't going anywhere'.
RN
Rolling News
Newsroom posted:
Carrie Gracie anchoring the second half of this news special on BBC One/NC- Brilliant.

'She ain't going anywhere'.

She was probably just scheduled to do the Five anyway.
BR
Brekkie
Or everyone else is on lockdown.

Moving Pointless to BBC2 half an hour later is just pointless. House of Games is far superior.
RK
Rkolsen
NYTV posted:
CBS News was also affected by COVID-19, as two New York-based employees tested positive for it. Here is CBS’s report that aired on the Evening News on March 11th.



As a result, it has affected both the national CBS News department as well as the news department of their owned-and-operated station WCBS-TV.



CBS This Morning is airing from the newsroom (effectively a rebrand of CBSN’s rolling coverage) as well as from Washington DC and WCBS-TV’s News is running from Studio 55, the home of CBSN New York, as seen here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MM3AzSVIpU WCBS-TV also is not running local inserts into CBS This Morning. Technical difficulties also led to viewers in New York getting news from Boston's WBZ as well.





From my understanding CBSN is now originating from Boston and that service is also going out on CBSN New York as well.

At the broadcast center there are minimal employees, and their network master control is operating on a skeleton staff. If need be they’ll transfer it to Los Angeles.

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