>wern't it great for ITV that the BBC had a power cut I bet there was high viewing figures last night
Yeah, because during the power cut they showed the England Match, News at 10 and that rather interesting Panorama prog.
Everybody must have switched over to ITV immediately!
Admittedly the news was a bit buggered up, and even News 24 wasn't on properly this Morning (they were taking Brekkie News). What about now - is everything back to normal?

>Admittedly the news was a bit buggered up, and even News 24 wasn't on properly this Morning (they were taking Brekkie News). What about now - is everything back to normal?

Apparently so... it probably would of been a much more interesting event if it wasn't for the footie last night. Probably would of got the Beeb a lot more adverse publicity too...

The Newsnight studio was out of use last night so they had to use the beige BBC News studio.

The live football was actualy 'managed' from Birmingham

Anyone notice the footie switched to Port v Germ at one point and went back to Eng v Rom?

The Ceefax and Radio 4 buggered up too. It'd have been funny if they couldn't have shown the match. A right laugh! I think these little failiures in life prove that no matter what kind of digital crap they use (COME BACK ANNA LOGG, sorry analogue) things still fuck up, and hopefully always will.

I love a crisis!

News 24 was replaced largely by BBC World last night (first time I've seen World - great variation of the beeps and drums), with the news coming from Westminster (albeit DOGless and clockless with a mish-mash of graphics from different BBC news programmes). The replacement this morning by Breakfast News proved a problem as the regional slots were from Newsroom Southeast. All was back to normal by 9am.

So, everyone, what were your favourite cockups (there were plenty) during the power cut?

Well, Due South was humorously cut off halfway through and replaced with an old Michael Palin travel documentary. I'm not sure if it was anything to do with the powercut, but it was fairly bizarre.

Well there was an episode of Dad's Army replacing Newsroom SE, and just as Fulton Mackay was explaining to our gallant boys they had received no points for a number of tests they had undertaken, it cut off straight to the England v Romania coverage - which was kind of ironic.

More than 20 million viewers saw England crash out of Euro 2000 in last
night's nail-biting match against Romania.
BBC1 coverage of the crunch clash raked in an average audience of 17.5
million, peaking at 19.3 million as Phil Neville gave away the tragic
last-minute penalty which spelled doom for the national side.
The ratings - equivalent to 71% of the overall TV-watching audience at that
time - do not take account of the many who are likely to have seen the game in
pubs and clubs.
While an average of 18 million viewers tuned in to watch England's historic
1-0 win over Germany on Saturday, they were spread over two channels, BBC1 and
ITV.
Tuesday night's figures are all the more remarkable in the light of the fact
that, 20 minutes into the Six O'Clock News, the BBC was forced off air following
a major power cut in West London.
Technicians and news teams finally managed to restore normal service at 7pm -
just in time for the football build-up in Charleroi.
A BBC spokeswoman said today: "Last night's was the highest viewing figure
for the tournament so far by a long way, so we are delighted."
The match, which turned out to be England's last, was scheduled against ITV
stalwart shows Emmerdale and Better Homes, presented by television maths wizard
Carol Vorderman.

Hang on - is Greg Dyke contributing to this thread or something?

Look North (NE&C) also got Dad's Army after an apology from John Lawrence (?!)

I was staying up late to watch the England match (about 3am where I am) and I noticed something was up when I flipped past BBC World and it had a "Recorded" caption in the corner. Actually they managed to keep going till the end of the bullitin at 6pm UK time somehow but after that went into documentries and the same recorded news twice, followed by Gavin Estler doing his News 24 bit and then Michael Burek got his mug on worldwide TV. Good to see what was going on back home instead of the international mix of stories on World.

Pity about the match, though...

>Anyone notice the footie switched to Port v Germ at one point and went back to Eng v Rom?
>
>The Ceefax and Radio 4 buggered up too. It'd have been funny if they couldn't have shown the match. A right laugh! I think these little failiures in life prove that no matter what kind of digital crap they use (COME BACK ANNA LOGG, sorry analogue) things still fuck up, and hopefully always will.
>
>I love a crisis!


actually... digital was fine - and managed to sustain their output. it was only analogue that got screwed up - and that was only cos Pebble Mill took things into their own hands, and started putting out filler progs - like Dads Army and Michael Palin

>actually... digital was fine - and managed to sustain their output. it was only analogue that got screwed up - and that was only cos Pebble Mill took things into their own hands, and started putting out filler progs - like Dads Army and Michael Palin

It's hardly Birmingham taking things into their own hands. It's Pebble Mill's _role_ to step in when these things happen. They didn't just sit there and think "Hey, lets put on Dads Army cos London have popped out for a bit". It's called a contingency plan. Just as BBC News decamping to Westminster is a contingency plan.

Yeah! Get your facts right, Anno, shame on you!

Ah, but Pebble Mill arent supposed to step in til they're advised to... and by all accounts, they just went and took control anyway - without talking to the digi directors in London who were in control of both the analogue and digi streams.
In the meantime, digi thought they had control of both networks, but didnt as they discovered when the feeds swapped to completely different programmes.
So there, my facts are right !!!!

>Ah, but Pebble Mill arent supposed to step in til they're advised to... and by all accounts, they just went and took control anyway - without talking to the digi directors in London who were in control of both the analogue and digi streams.
>In the meantime, digi thought they had control of both networks, but didnt as they discovered when the feeds swapped to completely different programmes.
>So there, my facts are right !!!!

I really don't know where you get this rubbish from. Digital BBC ONE and BBC TWO were just as affected as their analogue counterparts. They had no feeds. How the hell could they take control?

Fact: according to the contigency plans, if TVC *might* look like it is about to close, staff start travelling up with M40 to Birmingham. This happened *before* BBC ONE and BBC TWO went off air.

Watch the clips of BBC ONE. Hew Edwards told viewers they might go off air. If you don't believe me there is a clip on TV World: http://home.clara.net/jim.edwards/ - they were planning what would go on before they even went off air. Would anyone with any sense hand over network control to Digital who could also be affected by power problems? Who would do this? Only a yoghurt.

>>Ah, but Pebble Mill arent supposed to step in til they're advised to... and by all accounts, they just went and took control anyway - without talking to the digi directors in London who were in control of both the analogue and digi streams.
>>In the meantime, digi thought they had control of both networks, but didnt as they discovered when the feeds swapped to completely different programmes.
>>So there, my facts are right !!!!
>
>I really don't know where you get this rubbish from. Digital BBC ONE and BBC TWO were just as affected as their analogue counterparts. They had no feeds. How the hell could they take control?
>
>Fact: according to the contigency plans, if TVC *might* look like it is about to close, staff start travelling up with M40 to Birmingham. This happened *before* BBC ONE and BBC TWO went off air.
>
>Watch the clips of BBC ONE. Hew Edwards told viewers they might go off air. If you don't believe me there is a clip on TV World: http://home.clara.net/jim.edwards/ - they were planning what would go on before they even went off air. Would anyone with any sense hand over network control to Digital who could also be affected by power problems? Who would do this? Only a yoghurt.

i dunno where you're getting YOUR facts from, but Digital were in control of the networks. infact, digital took control at 1730.
and yes, BBC 1 did loose the network news - but they got themselves back on track by 1900 (on digital), and bbc2 digital stayed on air, without losing Due South. it was the analogue networks that were mainly affected.
so come on, where are u getting your info from ? and what do u know about plans for a new resilience centre ?

If digital wasnt having probs then why did it switch to Breakfast News in the morning on News 24 (broadcast via digital)
I was there at 6am watching start up, they said
'DUE TO ONGOING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES AT THE NETWORK CENTRE WE WILL BE UNABLE TO BRING YOU BBC NEWS 24 UNTIL PROBLEMS ARE RESOLVED, MEANWHILE WE JOIN BBC ONE FOR...BREAKFAST NEWS'

And also, you said that digital bbc one was not affected,
Erm, I was watching it and it was the same as the other BBC one, Where are YOU getting your facts anno?

All I can say is may it happen AGAIN!