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BBC Had To Replace Live Broadcasts With Recorded Material on its TV News Channels For an Hour Today Because of a Technical Glitch (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the oops dept.

The BBC had to replace live broadcasts with recorded material on its TV news channels for about an hour on Wednesday following a technical glitch. BBC News reports: The News at Six was also presented from the BBC's Millbank studio instead of its usual home of New Broadcasting House. The issue affected OpenMedia, a new computer system rolled out across BBC News outlets over the past six months. OpenMedia supplier Annova has been helping to investigate the fault. Engineers believe they have now addressed the problem. BBC News Home Editor Mark Easton shared on social media that he was rushing across London to the Millbank studio.

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  1. Maybe that explains it... but maybe not by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tuned in and saw this rather tall, thin guy reading the news from a desk on the beach for some reason. The newsreader said “and now for something completely different”, then they shifted to coverage of some bizarre event where people attempted to summarize Proust.

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  2. Annova? Anything to do with Ananova? by mccalli · · Score: 2

    Anyone else remember Ananova? Was a news site that optionally used an avatar to read the news, very early one. I bookmarked that site for years, and in fact when the domain was expiring I tried to buy it simply in order to keep my bookmarks the same.

    It's not the same product, but with it being news industry related and so similar a name, I wonder if it might have any of the same people around.