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Timeline: 2023 Week 41

Posted on 9th October 2023
By The Clean Feed Team
Last updated on 5th November 2023
Filed under Timeline

A round-up of the week’s stories and observations.

  • MON 9TH OCT (7.15PM)
    Technical issues on the BBC News at Six
  • THU 12TH OCT (9PM)
    RTÉ Aertel ceases transmission after almost 38 years
  • SAT 14TH OCT (9AM)
    Protestors vandalise entrance to BBC Broadcasting House
  • SUN 15TH OCT (12.40PM)
    BBC Points West affected by audio fault
  • SUN 15TH OCT (11PM)
    Another cock-up on BBC One West

Monday 9th October

7.15pm Technical issues on the BBC News at Six

The BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet was left on screen in silence for about 20 seconds on tonight’s BBC News at Six, before shouting to her technical team that she’d lost comms,

The package shown between the two links in this clip was also impacted by a technical fault.

Thursday 12th October

9pm RTÉ Aertel ceases transmission after almost 38 years

RTÉ’s teletext service, Aertel, was shut down at lunchtime today.

The service was dismantled on a phased basis, beginning at 10.16am today. Shortly after 1pm, only a corrupted version of the front page (page 100) remained.

At 1.22pm, Aertel was switched off.

RELATED ARTICLE: RTÉ Aertel: Going, Going, Gone.

Saturday 14th October

9am Protestors vandalise entrance to BBC Broadcasting House

The front entrance of BBC Broadcasting House in London has been vandalised with red paint.

A Pro-Palestinian group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

Palestine Action posted on X (formerly Twitter): “Palestine Action left a message overnight for the BBC: spreading the occupation’s lies and manufacturing consent for israel‘s war crimes means that you have Palestinian blood on your hands”.

The group accused the BBC of being complicit in “manufacturing consent for the occupation’s genocide of Palestinians”.

The BBC declined to comment on the incident, saying it was a matter for the Met Police.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “We are aware of criminal damage to a building in Portland Place, W1A.”

Sunday 15th October

12.40pm BBC Points West affected by audio fault

Almost ten minutes’ worth of this morning’s edition of BBC Politics West on BBC One went out with the audio of BBC Politics East.

Among the Items affected by the fault was an interview with Alastair Campbell.

The iPlayer copy of the programme includes the fault.

UPDATE (16TH OCTOBER): a glitch-free version of the programme is now available on BBC iPlayer.

VIDEO: an edit of this morning’s BBC Politics West, showing where the audio fault began and ended. TX DATE: 15th October 2023. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

11pm Another cock-up on BBC One West

BBC West is definitely not having a good day.

During tonight’s late edition of BBC Points West, the weather for the south of England was played out in error.

Thanks to @GregHallsworth for flagging.

VIDEO: weather for the south of England was played out in error on tonight’s BBC Points West bulletin. TX DATE: 15th October 2023. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

RELATED ARTICLE: Timeline: 2023 Week 40.

RELATED ARTICLE: Timeline: 2023 Week 42.

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PICTURED: Lyse Doucet experiencing technical issues during the BBC News at Six. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

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