CNN International has been relaying CNN from 2300 UK, and is continuing to relay CNN US until 1300 UK, when Kristie Lu Stout will anchor NewsStream. 14 hours of live coverage of Super Tuesday when the results were known by 7am UK time. I don't think all these extra hours of programming were really necessary.
I noticed that too! It only started doing that from last Monday.
The CNN EPG listings on TiVO are terrible right now, a bunch of domestic-international simulcasts were shown in the wrong slots due Daylight Saving Time adjustments in the States coming in a couple of weeks ago, but our UK clocks not yet changing and no-one adjusted the schedules to fit that arrangement.
Nightly right now - not just Super Tuesdays and debates - more domestic coverage is being taken on CNNI, like the second hour of AC360, Tonight with Don Lemon etc, but none of this is reflected in the TiVO EPG.
Finally, State of the Union on Sundays is shown as still being presented by Candy Crowley, despite Jake Tapper becoming host in June last year. You also can't series link it for some reason despite it being a weekly Sunday Politics style show. Grrr.
I found Meet The Press gets an airing on CNBC on Sundays, and it's coverage of US politics is better, and very good intelligent analysis too.
I found Meet The Press gets an airing on CNBC on Sundays, and it's coverage of US politics is better, and very good intelligent analysis too.
It' pretty good, but not a patch of what it was under the late great Tim Russert. Now, that was compulsory viewing for insight on US politics. About the best programme out there is Washington Week with Gwen Ifill on PBS, which you can watch on podcast, or on the PBS video site.
I believe it is up in January as well for a few days. Wonder why it keeps going down?
It was on 10e which was a refeed of 20w c band and it was configured as a temporary feed and had multiple audio soundtracks ie you could hear mobile tones to queue the affiliates in, this test is configured as a proper test channel but has now disappeared
It was on 10e which was a refeed of 20w c band and it was configured as a temporary feed and had multiple audio soundtracks ie you could hear mobile tones to queue the affiliates in, this test is configured as a proper test channel but has now disappeared
I wondering if it could be a temporary back haul for in the field productions that require a HD feed - complete with IFBs under the different audio tracks. I don't know if using one of the extra audio feeds are used in Europe as an IFB. Here in the US some stations (mainly those that don't regularly have Spanish language simulcasts of sports and some news) use their SAP feed as a way to provide reliable sub second IFB latency. On the flip side using SAP means a viewer will hear the producer and directors taking to those in the field.
It was on 10e which was a refeed of 20w c band and it was configured as a temporary feed and had multiple audio soundtracks ie you could hear mobile tones to queue the affiliates in, this test is configured as a proper test channel but has now disappeared
I wondering if it could be a temporary back haul for in the field productions that require a HD feed - complete with IFBs under the different audio tracks.
Why would field-productions need HD? (Unless it's just 'business as usual') If it was an on-air 'reverse vision' feed it wouldn't be network, if it was a confidence feed, it wouldn't need to be HD. I guess it could be used for promotional purposes - i.e. if CNN were at a major event and wanted people to see their HD feed in presentation areas etc.
Usually, in-the-field confidence vision is SD (and often quite low quality as low latency codec parameters are ideally used, which trade-off shorter GOP for higher bitrate or lower quality pictures). As you say, using additional audio feeds to carry one-half of a 4-wire (the other half would be carried on the outgoing vision from the OB) is a sensible thing to do (particularly if you don't mind additional latency and benefit from talkback and vision being in-sync)
