Reporting Scotland read out by continuity announcer

The Breakfast gallery in Salford takes BBC London to air, and the News Channel stays with the output from Salford.

If the presenters in Salford do something to sustain Scotland as universal_r proposes that would go out on the NC. And any other region that fails to opt for whatever reason.

Well whatever the circumstances, I think the Scotland announcer did a very good job at sustaining an opt when the other option available (London) would have been far worse. Yes the initial visual chosen wasn’t ideal but it was probably the best available at the time. (Suspect it may have been left on the output of the news studio and may have been the only thing to hand).

Except during Breakfast when AIUI BBC London is still the sustaining feed during the short regional opts, and BBC London doesn't opt-out locally in London for them (instead Salford cut to BBC London's gallery output).

The reason for this, is that at other times the sustaining network feed (that would go out when regions don't opt-out) would carry the BBC News Channel - but the News Channel is carrying Breakfast at that time of the morning, so between 0600 and 0830 doesn't work as a sustaining feed.

Additionally the version of Breakfast carried on the BBC News Channel 0600-0830 needs something to fill in the gaps during the regional opts, so Breakfast's gallery would need either to fill these gaps with output (I suspect those opts are VERY useful for catching breath, automating new running orders etc.), put a break filler out that worked on BBC One HD and BBC News Channel, or take a region via their gallery.

There will be a strong wish not to have to staff the News Channel gallery to opt-out every 30 minutes to fill the gaps I'm sure...

From what I understand, there was an issue which I won't disclose on here which meant that the bulletin could not make it to air.
The CA was offered what we saw on TV and was sent scripts. Scotland's preferred option when things go wrong is to stay away from London. As others have mentioned, the London bulletin is carried on the clean feed so the CA did not have another option.
It may not have looked the smoothest, but the country still got a morning news bulletin.

Back in the days with "UK Today" for News 24 and the sustaining feed, everything made much more sense with Breakfast opt outs... from the operational standpoint. Backup news bulletins for all the regions and nations! Sadly, the BBC doesn't have much funding freedom nowadays, the last thing they want to do is to waste money on programmes with low ratings.

And quite rightly. It makes little sense to put together news bulletins every morning that you intend nobody to see.

Any alarm in this context to only to make someone aware of a possible issue I'd have thought?

It does highlight there is no moving station ident that can be used in an enduring manner.

I remember in the 80s the presenter's camera at Southampton failing at the start of a breakfast opt. The presenter, Gordon Radley paused, sighed, and punched up the COW ident and carried on, I think that was used for the subsequent opts that morning

Can't the BBC generic ribbon ident mentioned earlier serve that purpose? ITV of course has the breakbumper loop.

It certainly could, though the BBC only seem to use it 'internally' !

That originates from RedBee. The circuit it sustains was carrying the London opt during this incident.