We're all on MHP discussing it... entertaining wasn't it?

>We're all on MHP discussing it... entertaining wasn't it?

Some of us aren't on MHP-chat - I used to be but gave it up a few years ago because my inbox was about to burst. If I went back to it now (though I'd love to) I'd get even less work done.

Can anyone give a definateive account of what happened where and when and if everything is back to normal?

>Wot? No comments on Newsnight coming from the main news studio?

The BBC had a power cut and some of the studios weren't ready, including the Newsnight one. A comment was made right at the beginning of the show.

>>Wot? No comments on Newsnight coming from the main news studio?
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>The BBC had a power cut and some of the studios weren't ready, including the Newsnight one. A comment was made right at the beginning of the show.

I think he meant no comment in the group. BTW was UKTV affected?
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>Can anyone give a definateive account of what happened where and when and if everything is back to normal?

I can tell you what I know.

One of London Electricity's sub stations shut down (screwed up a huge area). The Beeb's backup generators kicked in, as designed to. Somewhere along the line, the back-up had a small fire - that's when the lights went out on the Six O'Clock News etc.

The backup systems came online from Birmingham, giving Dads Army for BBC One South East viewers instead of Newsroom South East. The other regions came on line, taking their normal programmes, and for BBC One all that happened was that Euro 2000 started 5 mins early. BBC TWO showed something to do with Michael Palin apparantly. Choice? Pass. Knowledge? Pass. Radio 5 Live switched to their team in Belgium and Radio Four's Six O'Clock News got replaced.

BBC News 24 and BBC World showed backup programmes. For some reason World seemed to get back on air quicker, moving to Millbank (the Westminster studios). News 24 took a recorded World bulliten around seven and started taking BBC World live at 8.

The (not) 9 O'Clock News also decamped to Millbank and looked fine bar the wrong font on the 'BBC News Live' things. Newsnight took the main news studio, complete with desk covered in lots of sheets and dust covers by the look of it. They managed to do a reasonable programme bar having Chris Waddle sat in a studio on air in Sheffield, but having to talk down the phone!

BBC News 24 kept on taking BBC World until 6am (I think) when they switched to taking Breakfast News, restoring their own service at 9am. I'm not sure when BBC World returned to TV Centre.

I believe the News 24 studio was one of the worst hit, hence their prolonged absence.

>I think he meant no comment in the group. BTW was UKTV affected?

Don't quote me on this, but I \think\ the UK Transmission suites are in a different building.

>Don't quote me on this, but I \think\ the UK Transmission suites are in a different building.

I read somewhere else that UKTV was affected slightly. Choice and Knowledge weren't. I did hear that the UKTV suites are close to the BBC ones, though I could be talking through my arse on this one.

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>>Don't quote me on this, but I \think\ the UK Transmission suites are in a different building.
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>I read somewhere else that UKTV was affected slightly. Choice and Knowledge weren't. I did hear that the UKTV suites are close to the BBC ones, though I could be talking through my arse on this one.
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Tell you what, lets both talk out of our rear ends cos neither of us know for sure :)

My mother was v disappointed that we in Devon got Euro 2000 instead of Dad's Army. Come to think of it, so was I..

>My mother was v disappointed that we in Devon got Euro 2000 instead of Dad's Army. Come to think of it, so was I..

I thought that you in Devon and Cornwall liked your 'Spotlight' magazine. It's pathetic! I bet you'd rather live in the East MIdlands Today region, in somewhere like Derby, Coventry or Leicester?

I gather from various messages posted on various forums over the past week, that when everything went kaput at Tv Centre, Pebble Mill took over network tranmission for a time. BBC Midlands Today went out as normal, apart from 3 attempts to link from the studio, to the newsroom re. the story in north worcestershire about the newsagent stabbing one of 3 burgalars, who later died. The show carried on as normal, until roughly 6.55, then we were put straight into Dad's Army without a by your leave or wot, then after 5 mins, this was cut off, & then we went straight into the football. My question is, why didn't the Midlands Today production team liase with whoever was running the network from Birmingham, so we could have had a bit longer for the local news, thus eliminating the situation at 6.55pm, which looked silly, Does anybody else agree ?