Originally posted by EternalOptimist
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Editing a 1 hour programme can take days, especially around getting it to be just the right timing etc. As soon as you cut something out, what do you put in it's place to make up the time. The best way to cover this is to deliberately run over time to give yourselves a buffer, but then it means you must cut something out, even if nothing went wrong.
So I think they normally do a "live" edit - i.e. the VT editor / director will edit it on-the-fly as if it were live and that's what goes out, bar anything extreme or exceptional circumstances.
But given that the BNP are on tonight, it wouldn't surprise me if they made the recording first thing this morning to give the VT editor more time in case it needs some major surgery before the transmission deadline.
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