Dirty Dishes
One downside of the heatwave this summer is that it plays havoc with our technology. We tend to design all our outside broadcast kit with the assumption that it will be probably be cold and raining most of the year, so weeks of blazing sunshine can have unforseen consequences.
Today, for example, we had to cancel two events because the satellite dish on one of our outside broadcasts vans developed a fault. I'm told some gizmo in the centre of the dish actually melted. It might have been a rubber band, for all I know. As bad luck would have it, all our other OB vans were in different parts of the country andso our production teams had to make other arrnagments.
For Tom Morton that meant a mad dash from the Crinan Canal to the studios here in Glasgow. Luckily the team had pre-recorded some material from the location to provide a little bit of local colour to the programme.
Meanwhile Vic & Bryan were supposed to be having a Scottish Adventure in Tarbert, complete with live music from . Instead, producer Barbara Wallace retained the outdoor feel of the show with a live performance in the ±«Óãtv car park in Glasgow. The band set up on the steps outside my office and a good time was had by all.
I'm told that all the technical problems have now been sorted. And hey...here comes the rain. 
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