Usually, live programmes have a main and standby feeds to transmission and they're supposed to be via differing routes, thereby improving the resilience.
Though if they both go via the switch at BT Tower and are booked with the same timings, then they'll both fall over at the same time...
Well, Sundays Something for the Weekend is on iplayer, including the bit where the show fell off air. It seems they carried on with the show while BBC 2 viewers were listening to some breakdown music.
Usually, live programmes have a main and standby feeds to transmission and they're supposed to be via differing routes, thereby improving the resilience.
Though if they both go via the switch at BT Tower and are booked with the same timings, then they'll both fall over at the same time...
Yes, but as I said in my post, they're supposed to go via differing routes. Certainly for major OBs and programmes made in BBC centres, the main and reserve feeds are booked via totally different routes so that if one route fails, it shouldn't affect the other. Obviously not the case for this programme!
It's certainly a hell of a coincidence if it wasn't to do with the clocks changing that the line dropped exactly on the hour. There may well have been a secondary route, but if the same person who hadn't got their head around the GMT/BST issue booked both then it would have been affected by the same problem as the primary route.
Half-expected there to be an accompanying ident, sadly not.
This 'Violence Season' started with
Horizon: How Violent Are You?
a few days ago, an hour before which it was promoted with a motion slide for the programme, immediately followed by the full trail for the same programme - talk about over-doing it!
Remember last October's aborted BBC2 refresh? Well it's on again... sort of. 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday) is the changeover time.
There's nothing to get too excited about - the new trail endboards are quite nice, although the repositioned BBC TWO patch (yes, it's staying) doesn't work on the idents, and the solution they've come up with isn't at all great.
The changeover also means it's farewell for good to the Chase and Cappuccino idents.
Remember last October's aborted BBC2 refresh? Well it's on again... sort of. 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday) is the changeover time.
There's nothing to get too excited about - the new trail endboards are quite nice, although the repositioned BBC TWO patch (yes, it's staying) doesn't work on the idents, and the solution they've come up with isn't at all great.
The changeover also means it's farewell for good to the Chase and Cappuccino idents.
Here we go again then, anyone care to wager how long it'll last this time?
No new idents then? Get rid of 2 (+all the Chase variations) and don't add any, great plan.
