News Coverage PM No Confidence Vote

[Markymark]

Huw wearing a conventional microphone meaning he is being drowned out by all the commotion at the end of the street.

Let’s hope they’ve got someone in the studio for the rest of todays news, or else the section about the war on Ukraine will turn into a farce

Still, presumably Tears for Fears will now receive an unexpected royalty cheque for tonight?

[News Engineer]

You'd think really they'd have given him one of those Madonna mics. He's had to apologise at least twice now for the noise, and nobody else in the studio for the rest of the news.

They may not have had one immediately to hand, where as ECM77s (standard type of lapel mic) are everywhere.

There will have been a presenter on standby in the studio (in case the line went down), presumably they decided it wasn’t bad enough to abandon the presentation from Downing Steeet.

[Omnipresent]

Fiona Bruce and Chris Mason had Madonna mics on Downing Street on the 6.

Ben Chu was just on Newsnight from Downing Street with D:Ream “Things Can Only Get Better” in the background.

[Newshound47]

In this case though off the back of Corrie and with the BBC not doing anything I suspect they would get better ratings for news than for Long Lost Family.

LLF isn't a low rating show though, I know you think news take priority over everything but I think ITV made the right call to keep the schedules intact.

Particularly not tonight’s episode which has been heavily promoted.

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One thing I noticed today was the fact that GB News' Political Editor Darren McCaffrey and Correspondent Tom Harwood have been absent from the channel all day.

It's been left to Paul Hawkins to report from outside Number 10 and Gloria De Piero to sort of fill in for Harwood's role this afternoon in the studio.

I think it's highlighted that 2 political reporters is woefully inadequate for a news channel.

Darren said on social media he was trying to get back from Rome in time to broadcast for before the vote but got stuck in a 90 minute border control queue at Heathrow and didn’t get there and on air until after.

[Humphrey Hacker]

An absolute non event as far as the BBC were concerned.

A real damp squib for the beeb.

[Markymark]

An absolute non event as far as the BBC were concerned.

A real damp squib for the beeb.

Thanks to the 'event' I gather the Beeb managed to muck up the recording triggers for Silent Witness on (all?) platforms?

[telebox2001]

Virgin still doesn't have a dynamic EPG so that should have been fine.

[headliner101]

Did the hour containing the result announcement get removed from iPlayer just shortly afterwards?  I find it weird that the hours leading up to it were still up but not the moment itself.