I thought i saw a News crew when i was on my home but didn't take much notice as i was concentrating on my driving, as well as checking my lip gloss and hair in the rear view mirror. While watching the BBC South East news and i see they were covering a story just down the road from me. I was gonna pop out and take some photos but they've probably gone by now, and besides i'm warm and comfy and that Penny woman reporting was looking a bit cold, so i poured a glass of wine, reclined my chair and thought to myself, 'god i'm glad i'm not you'. The last time TV crews were here it was when builders found live bombs from the second world war. Not a surprising find considering they were buliding on a former WW2 Aerodrome. We were all evacuated, we didn't need a man with a megaphone to inform us to Evacuate. A policeman kindly gave us an early morning alarm call along with a Meridian camera shoved in your face. Mr Hellfire growled/cussed at them, then the reality kicked in, the seriousness of the situation, as in, ' i hope that didn't go out live'. It certainly wasn't on any of the other bulletins that day. The story they're covering tonight is nowhere near as exciting as that little episode.
Everyone will be talking about it tomorrow at my local villageshop and post office. It's quite fun isn't it when the BEEB are set up near your house.
I bet you all have a BEEB/ Regional news tale to tell too.
The BBC on a street near you!
Well, there was some story about the infamous Spinnaker Tower (there always is), and I was sitting in Gunwharf, randomly absent-mindedly watching the Meridian team filming it. They asked this big shouty sailor man (who was trying to sell boat tours of the harbour) for an interview, and he said yes. So then I watched him rambling on. That's it. I never saw it on the telly. Not that exciting, but you did ask.
Years ago we had East Midlands Today in our street because some mad bat across the road from us claimed that she had buried a child in the back garden several decades previously and there was all this hoo-har about "ooh, maybe it's a Fred West sort of thing, with loads of bodies on the property".
I was at school at the time, so missed seeing the cameras (much to my disappointment), but it was definately quite weird watching the report that evening on the television and seeing our road, a bit of our house and our next door neighbour being interviewed.
In the end, no bodies were found, and the lady in question got taken into care, I believe.
I was at school at the time, so missed seeing the cameras (much to my disappointment), but it was definately quite weird watching the report that evening on the television and seeing our road, a bit of our house and our next door neighbour being interviewed.
In the end, no bodies were found, and the lady in question got taken into care, I believe.
There's a news crew in Italy that always stands infront of this palace sort of place, I guess it's just like England standing outside of Number 10 talking about some fat arse kid who could be taken of his mum. Hey, it's a nice back ground.
Funny enough, I was walking around York this afternoon when I saw a satellite OB van without any branding outside the city walls. There were no logos or anything to identify who the broadcaster was. On walking past the van around 15 minutes later, there was a man talking into a boom microphone with a cameraman filming him with no sign of a reporter around
Turns out it was a recorded two-way with Harry Gration for the lead story on tonight's Look North. Thankfully, I didn't appear walking in the background
Turns out it was a recorded two-way with Harry Gration for the lead story on tonight's Look North. Thankfully, I didn't appear walking in the background
About a decade ago I was bunking off school with some friends when a local church got struck by lightning and (eventually) burnt down. By lunchtime Meridian and South Today were there and my mates thought they would go and be prats in the background - next day they all got in trouble for it as the teachers had been watching the news. :roll:
Near me we had North West Tonight in our village (about two minutes walk from my place) doing a few Live OB's not too long before Christmas, with Gordon Burns admitting he even shopped here on one or two occassions.
North West Tonight have also been to our School, as did ITN once, although I wasn't there when they were filming I saw it on TV the same night, and it was also shown a couple of times afterwards.
Also saw a North West Tonight Van outside Liverpool Magistrates Court in the middle of Summer last year, although there was only one person in the vehicle who looked rather sleepy.
North West Tonight have also been to our School, as did ITN once, although I wasn't there when they were filming I saw it on TV the same night, and it was also shown a couple of times afterwards.
Also saw a North West Tonight Van outside Liverpool Magistrates Court in the middle of Summer last year, although there was only one person in the vehicle who looked rather sleepy.
steve
Febraury 27th 1998 and the cameras were all over us like I don't know what.. I was only 8 at the time and found it very exciting - The Bristol Heart Babies Enquiry after 200 babies had been neglected and was one of the biggest NHS scandals to date.
It was fascinating to watch the ITN News at Ten and see myself on the headlines! Although it was a great shame having that story to back it.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get hold of archive footage as I'd really love to see some of the reports again.
It was fascinating to watch the ITN News at Ten and see myself on the headlines! Although it was a great shame having that story to back it.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get hold of archive footage as I'd really love to see some of the reports again.
http://www.metropol247.co.uk/forum/sear ... r=superguysuperguy wrote:Live broadcasts are all the same.
And your posts are all inane.
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