They've really messed up the EPG now - various programmes across all regions are now shorter than their billed length - I hope someone realises soon. Meanwhile, while all the changes have been happening tonight, the website schedules haven't changed, nor have the synopses on the "watch live" pages, suggesting that this isn't linked to the Freeview/Sky/Virgin EPG system.
How wonderfully surreal - as well as being a great match, its turned in to a bit of a 'special occasion' tonight with the lighting and the rest of Wimbledon in darkness. I fully agree with the decision to stay on BBC One. After all, they've delayed the news umpteen times for football, so why not for tennis?
I don't have a problem with the news or almost any other programme being delayed because of another one over running. My problem is with the terrible way it has been handled. Why did it take them until 21:14 to decide that the news couldn't start at 21:15? The news is now listed at 22:30. If the time gets to 22:25 and the tennis is still running, push the news back some more don't wait until 22:29. How difficult can it be?
They were just delaying it at 15 minutes increments, which was the sensible and obvious thing to do. I guess now they'll drop the repeat of Moving On and be back on schedule at 11.30pm.
Often this practice of switching from BBC2 to BBC1 isn't called for - it certainly wasn't on Saturday, but tonight it was absolutely the right choice to switch when they did, and the occasion proved worthy of the disruption to the BBC1 schedule.
I just hope the BBC don't get a taste of it and start demanding an evening session at Wimbledon - although on the other hand, that would make scheduling much easier if they knew certain matches wouldn't start before 7pm for example.
10.40pm though - way past Wimbledon's bedtime maybe, but they've had matches start later than that at the Aussie open.
According to the banner at the bottom of the screen, the BBC News follows this programme. That may be true on BBC One, but surely BBC HD viewers don't have to see that?!
As an aside, Wimbledon, London and even that fleeting shot of the Moon all look stunning in high definition.
I think that the programme information captions are now being generated at Wimbledon rather than being added at Red Bee in W12. (Probably because the Red Bee ones totally obliterate the baseline and one of the two players...) AIUI there isn't a clean-feed for BBC HD to take, as they no longer have a separate on-site HD presentation operation, and instead hop between BBC One and Two feeds (both of which come back in HD) they would have to put a BBC HD specific caption over the top of the Wimbledon generated one on the feed for BBC One or Two.
This also mean that if the information is incorrect in the Nations that they will have to obliterate them with their own captions (though AIUI Wimbledon are warning over talkback when they are imminent and when they've gone)
The BBC One and BBC Two programmes are being produced in HD, and being downconverted for use on each of those networks. I'm not sure what the HD channel are doing to fill the gaps when there's no tennis on either One or Two - presumably a third HD link is being used, and the OB are producing coverage on that.
Meanwhile, the Virgin Media EPG has shown its shortcomings this evening - it's not reflected any of the evening's changes. Nor has the BBC /programmes site, which I'd thought was driven from the EPG, but apparently not.
I would assume (noggin can you confirm?), that there are two HD lines back to W12, neither of which are strictly allocated to BBC1 or BBC2, so tonights HD coverage will have remained on one feed throughout, with BBC 2 using the second feed between 6 and 7 with the same content on it. That means that BBC HD could use either feed depending on what the other channels are doing (being switched by Red Bee rather than at Wimbeldon). If neither are broadcasting, it means there are two lines not doing anything and are available for BBC HD.
I would assume (noggin can you confirm?), that there are two HD lines back to W12, neither of which are strictly allocated to BBC1 or BBC2
I know for sure that, as I said, there are two HD lines, which are referred to as BBC One and BBC Two. (I could check the other lines, but won't be back in work until after the tournament's over...)
According to the banner at the bottom of the screen, the BBC News follows this programme. That may be true on BBC One, but surely BBC HD viewers don't have to see that?!
As an aside, Wimbledon, London and even that fleeting shot of the Moon all look stunning in high definition.
I think that the programme information captions are now being generated at Wimbledon rather than being added at Red Bee in W12. (Probably because the Red Bee ones totally obliterate the baseline and one of the two players...) AIUI there isn't a clean-feed for BBC HD to take, as they no longer have a separate on-site HD presentation operation, and instead hop between BBC One and Two feeds (both of which come back in HD) they would have to put a BBC HD specific caption over the top of the Wimbledon generated one on the feed for BBC One or Two.
This also mean that if the information is incorrect in the Nations that they will have to obliterate them with their own captions (though AIUI Wimbledon are warning over talkback when they are imminent and when they've gone)
Why dosen't BBC HD use the encrypted feeds at 7e, they are clean feeds aren't they with match graphics?
How do HD split their coverage then between BBC1 and BBC2 - or do they just not bother with the network programmes and dip into the matches of their choice, which inevitably most of the day will also be on either BBC1/2.
I guess as the match on BBC2 at 1pm usually switched to BBC1 at 1.45pm, and similarly the match on BBC1 at the end of the afternoon broadcast normally switched to BBC2 at 5.50pm, they could do it pretty seamlessly by just sticking with those matches. But knowing the BBC, I suspect they complicate things for themselves!
How do HD split their coverage then between BBC1 and BBC2 - or do they just not bother with the network programmes and dip into the matches of their choice, which inevitably most of the day will also be on either BBC1/2.
I guess as the match on BBC2 at 1pm usually switched to BBC1 at 1.45pm, and similarly the match on BBC1 at the end of the afternoon broadcast normally switched to BBC2 at 5.50pm, they could do it pretty seamlessly by just sticking with those matches. But knowing the BBC, I suspect they complicate things for themselves!
I guess its complicated because theirs three operations going on, one for the UK(BBC feeds via fibre), international feeds from EBUER and there's a world feed and who actually shows that, can't think of any broadcaster in Europe using this.
Satellite feeds are often used on these events as they can easily be downlinked by more than one person. For the EBU it makes sense to just have one satellite booking each of it's rights holders can access, rather than separate bookings for each broadcaster. Anyone on site like the BBC would have to sort their own path back to their centre, and it's often cheaper and easier to use landlines than satellite space (provided the lines already exist!).