Editorial collapses
The worst that can happen in a live programme is a complete breakdown of the editorial running order. It can, if not stopped, cause the domino effect, where one item collapses, causing the next to collapse, which knocks down the next, and so on.
The domino effect
The example opposite shows a perfectly reasonable running order for the first part of a half-hour news programme, running on a commercial network. Allowing for adverts, the programme editor has just 24 minutes to fili, so he has broken it down into two parts of 13 and 11 minutes each.
The programme starts fine, with titles and a series of headlines. While the headlines are on air, the technical director tells you and the programme editor that the live link to the ...
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