The Sport Thread

It was Martin Tyler with someone else, as they were taking the world feed produced by Input Media.

I think I've only seen him once, its so far been Matt Smith and Scott Minto, he seems to be the chief presenter, he models himself on Gary Lineker very clearly.

Doesn't he do there 3pm Saturday kick-off?

I'll have a look next time im watching it.

Yes Gary Lineker does front their Champions League coverage on Al Jazeera Sport +3 which is their English sports channel. Normally they show one of the English clubs on each CL night.

I hope Harshy doesn't mind, but here are two screenshots he sent me of the Al Jazeera coverage of a La Liga game which came from the DayBreak studio. I think he said these were taken from a (HD?) feed on 10E of the coverage rather than the coverage directly.

Woah, images are large enough!

But it's interesting to see the Daybreak clock still on there, and the studio at night for that matter.

Wow. The DayBreak clock can display two digit hours. This is an improvement over the GMTV clock.
http://www.dl.netmx.co.uk/images/gmtv-time2.png
http://www.dl.netmx.co.uk/images/gmtv-time1.png

Sorry changed the images to thumbnails now.

Ste

Why is the GMTV clock saying 3:09?

That was the output of an EVS LSM with the status display on it. (It shows the operator - and sometimes the gallery - clip names, time code, durations, clip position in clip list etc.)

Suspect it was a routing error on the line-switching to the vision mixer - if thay were the case as a vision mixer you wouldn't see it until it was routed to you, and depending on the way of working, you might not question its presence in the monitor stack (as some operations chose to have the EVS status display in their stacks rather than the clean output)

In many areas the vision mixer would be able to preview the EVS outputs on their vision mixer before transmission (on smaller productions typically) - but if you are routing 20+ EVS channels down 4 or 5 replay lines (which is quite common), you might never have seen the issue until you came to play the closer.

Shouldn't happen - but I can see how it did. There is a slight pause before they cut to it when you can almost hear the exclamations from the truck...

I think that programme was pre-recorded at 13:09, if I remember, and then played out the following day or something, and obviously the original time of recording was shown for one reason or another.