CNN International & Domestic

Here's some from last night's coverage of the plane crash...

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The red line at the start of the ticker is very sky news-ish. Pity.

[quote="rob"]

Here's a baffling thing from last night. Why the heck were CNN reduced to having to take pictures from Channel12 Long Island (which is around 25 miles from New York City) and WPIX11?

There doesn't seem to be much co-operation between CNN and NY1, which is strange being as they are both owned by Time Warner. One would assume that cutting to a sister New York based network yesterday ,would have been the obvious choice.
It also demonstrated that there was no camera plug-in point on the roof of the Time Warner Centre at Central Park South & 57th, because if there was, they would have an unrestricted view of the rescue effort going on in the Hudson River less than 5 blocks away.

Just a quick query... why do CNN International occasionally play dialling tones during breaks and before programmes, like at the start of this video?

That's interesting - I've never heard that on this side of the world.

I've never heard that on the European satellite feeds

Anyone else can verify this? Have you heard it too? Haha.

I have more videos with the tones in my files, it'll take me a day or two to get to them, not near my main PC at the moment.

Rob, just to confirm - these are from the Freeview version?

Yes, from Freeview.

I think I know what it is now. According to Digital Spy Forums...

They're not test tones (you couldn't test much with them) they're almost certainly opt-out/in tones.

They'll be to trigger any stations carrying the programme, or their other centres (Europe, Asia etc) who are inserting adverts into the channel to opt back for the next part. I would have thought they'd nornally be sent on a seperate sound circuit so they aren't heard at home but maybe sometimes they have to appear on the main audio or get accidently patched to air.

One of the Discovery Channels which I was involved in years ago (about 13 scarily) had them for exactly this reason - to cue the local automated advert breaks.

Radio stations have used them in the past, you used to hear them before the travel - these were normally to switch on the RDS traffic flag. The tones were built into the travel jingle