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BBC Breakfast taken off the air by fire alarm

Posted on 26th March 2022 by The Clean Feed Team
Last updated on 30th December 2022 Filed under News

This morning’s edition of BBC Breakfast was taken off the air a few minutes early due to a fire alarm at the BBC’s studios in MediaCity in Salford.

Presenters Roger Johnson and Rachel Burden were interviewing Harpreet Kaur, the winner of The Apprentice, when the fire alarm went off in the studio.

After a minute or so of confusion, the programme was taken off the air.

BBC One’s presentation team took over quickly, playing out a number of extra trails, to take us up to the next scheduled programme, Saturday Kitchen, at 10am.

VIDEO: fire alarm takes BBC Breakfast off the air. Our clip includes the full BBC One junction, leading up to 10am. Presenters: Roger Johnson and Rachel Burden. Announcer: Mercy Ajisafe. TX DATE: 26th March 2022. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

Playout centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales also jumped in to pad out the unexpected gap in the schedule.

Northern Ireland took the initial seconds of the network junction. We then had a few seconds of the filler animation, usually played out on the clean feed of BBC One between programmes.

Local playout of trails then kicked in – albeit there was an appearance of a network-branded sting, which appeared to be played out locally.

VIDEO: fire alarm takes BBC Breakfast off the air. Our clip includes the full BBC One Northern Ireland junction, leading up to 10am. Presenters: Roger Johnson and Rachel Burden. Announcer: David Olver. TX DATE: 26th March 2022. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

In Scotland, the announcer/director managed to update the playout schedule in time and covered the entire junction locally. However, he suggested in his link announcement for Saturday Kitchen that the programme was starting earlier than billed due to the issues with BBC Breakfast. In fact, Saturday Kitchen started on time.

VIDEO: fire alarm takes BBC Breakfast off the air. Our clip includes the full BBC One Scotland junction, leading up to 10am. Presenters: Roger Johnson and Rachel Burden. Announcer: TBC. TX DATE: 26th March 2022. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

BBC One Wales covered the entire junction locally without issue.

VIDEO: fire alarm takes BBC Breakfast off the air. Our clip includes the full BBC One Wales junction, leading up to 10am. Presenters: Roger Johnson and Rachel Burden. Announcer: Steve Allan. TX DATE: 26th March 2022. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

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