I saw this go out last night. It was one clip in a series of - no doubt hastily compiled clips. They apologised later in the newscast and online. Talking to a someone who has a better idea about these things, I think the clip was indeed in the system from the previous day when James passed Bryant's record (itself a story that was unlikely to have appeared on main UK TV sports coverage).
Interestingly,Kobe Bryant was top story last night. I mention this because the NBA really isn't a massive sport in the UK. Indeed I suspect that the mistake was made because the people assembling the package didn't know what he looked like (yes it clearly said "James" on his vest in the rogue clip, so no real excuses). There definitely *are* massive NBA fans in the UK including a lot of other British professional sportsmen and women, but I think it was top of the news because culturally he's such an important figure. Adam On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 1:46 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > During last night's News At Ten, they aired a package on the death of Kobe > Bryant. Except that smack dab in the middle of it was footage of LeBron > James. > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/27/bbc-confuses-lebron-james-with-kobe-bryant-helicopter-death-coverage/ > > Based on what was shown, the best guess from the Twitterverse is that > someone did a search on Bryant and grabbed the first thing they found, > which was James passing Bryant on the all-time scoring from Saturday night. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BdGh9ooh6cy5dgCFkdR_ytX%3D5V2XzeNFDgqGz74LTkg-Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BdGh9ooh6cy5dgCFkdR_ytX%3D5V2XzeNFDgqGz74LTkg-Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGA6vicZ24%3DSvp1bDbn4ApoF7L0Vi9TTF9-eD4ToDk4EHw%40mail.gmail.com.
