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(January 2006)

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DV
dvboy
steveboswell posted:
dvboy posted:
David posted:
BBC Two (and I assume BBC HD) have given the F1 until 22:20. I guess Family Guy will be dropped from HD.


BBC HD will drop Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage if anything as it's a repeat that was put in place of Mock the Week which was mysteriously SD only at the last minute. The two episodes of Family Guy are new.


Family Guy dropped, A Little Later dropped in ( what else?! ), Francesco on time. So, HD and Three are out-of-sync now.


Well that makes little sense.
DA
davidhorman
The BBC One HD DOG has been stuck on the right since F1 finished (or since it started, in fact).

David
BR
Brekkie
dvboy posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
DVB Cornwall posted:
,,, and peculiarly, series linked Coast on the iPlayer has delivered the as yet unbroadcast second episode in HD of the series to my PC.

Has there been any word as to when Coast will be on? It gets a repeat on Friday night so that could have the knock on effect of needing a replacement too


Friday may be its only showing.

Off topic but as the Coast repeats will be dropped pn Fridays for Wimbledon they could bump it along a week and show it next Sunday, but premiere episode 2 & 3 in the Friday repeat slot first.
DV
dvboy
davidhorman posted:
The BBC One HD DOG has been stuck on the right since F1 finished (or since it started, in fact).

David


I don't understand why they move it - it doesn't obscure anything in its usual position.

Unless it's because they want it visible when the likes of Sky News use clips.
JO
Jon
Or it's just standard practice on BBC Sport programmes as score bars are usually on the left?
DV
dvboy
Jon Wells posted:
Or it's just standard practice on BBC Sport programmes as score bars are usually on the left?


Score bars are usually within the 4:3 safe area.
UK
UKnews
Ant posted:

And Family Guy dropped from HD, which I'm fairly annoyed at. Just got in so didn't get a chance to change the recording to BBC Three.

Could be that (for rights reasons) the HD showing has to be simulcast with the main BBC channel showing it. That was certainly the case for Heroes and Mad Men.
DO
dosxuk
Nice to see at least one wikipedia editor was watching the Grand Prix today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-shouldered_Blackbird
JO
Jon
dvboy posted:
Jon Wells posted:
Or it's just standard practice on BBC Sport programmes as score bars are usually on the left?


Score bars are usually within the 4:3 safe area.


True but it would still looks a bit odd, wouldn't it?

Can anyone confirm they move it to the right for sport?
DE
deejay
The nightmare scenario stuff of ye olde presentation job interviews!! I remember questions like this were standard for even junior jobs within presentation just to prove you had the right thought processes. So you're about to run a 2 hour feature film premiere on BBC One, Scotland aren't taking it, but you do have a message that the Pope isn't well and news might want to go on air with a news report. What do you do? Erm....
WE
Westy2
deejay posted:
The nightmare scenario stuff of ye olde presentation job interviews!! I remember questions like this were standard for even junior jobs within presentation just to prove you had the right thought processes. So you're about to run a 2 hour feature film premiere on BBC One, Scotland aren't taking it, but you do have a message that the Pope isn't well and news might want to go on air with a news report. What do you do? Erm....


Use of some sort of talkback between News, London Pres & Glasgow Pres, plus Belfast & Cardiff Pres(as they'll be doing their own continuity!) & all agree a time to cross over to News presumbly.(speaking as a 'total layman' in these matters!)

Is Scotland already in their programme or not? What's the duration? Could a separate news report be fed to Scotland a few minutes later?

(That's actually a good idea for a thread. Throw up some broadcasting/presentation scenarios & ask 'How would you do this?')
DV
DVB Cornwall
Don't usually post unreliable stuff, but a report I read yesterday inferred that ESPN UK is losing just over £3M a month based on it's first year figures. This was a one liner in an article somewhat critical of it's programming, So whether accurate or not is debatable.
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