They didn't dedicate 20 minutes, however they had an inane interview with Emilia Fox in the studio to plug Silent Witness with nothing more than a tenuous link to London.
You've read Private Eye this fortnight then!
Yes, that's a good example of regional news irrelevant filler too
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(Off-topic but I'd also disagree with the view that BBC regions would pull nationally-covered stories without a good local angle - some of them have a terrible habit of covering stories identically and as if viewers haven't already heard it minutes earlier.)
As someone who has worked on a regional news programme, it does happen. Many a time we'd have to drop a story and send everything to the national news.
A local angle can be an alternative angle on the story from a local point of view or in details that national won't cover - practical, parochial details for example
They didn't dedicate 20 minutes, however they had an inane interview with Emilia Fox in the studio to plug Silent Witness with nothing more than a tenuous link to London.
You've read Private Eye this fortnight then!
Yes, that's a good example of regional news irrelevant filler too
Yep, also witnessed (no pun intended) the interview in all it's banal glory.
Elaine Willcox twitter pics show she was down at Meridian last week getting weather presenting tips from Simon 'perky' Parkin. Does this mean she will be on weather duty soon?
I watched Granada Reports after News at Ten the other night and happened to be listening to it using headphones. I noticed that all the output from Granada was in mono. The output from ITN was in stereo, as was the ITV continuity straight after Granada Reports. I'm amazed that Granada is still mono after moving to a new facility recently. Do you think this was just a one-off error, or is it always in mono?
I watched Granada Reports after News at Ten the other night and happened to be listening to it using headphones. I noticed that all the output from Granada was in mono. The output from ITN was in stereo, as was the ITV continuity straight after Granada Reports. I'm amazed that Granada is still mono after moving to a new facility recently. Do you think this was just a one-off error, or is it always in mono?
I've noticed this - on the 6pm bulletin the main titles are in stereo, but everything else is in mono. If you listen to some of the clips I've put on YouTube with headphones you'll notice it.
Isn't it common to produce VT packages in mono with actuality sound on one channel and the voice over on the other, then it gets mixed down to mono live during transmission? Something to do with being able to easily reuse the footage later as I remember.
It could be that either the channels on the sound desk were mono'd for the packages and then they forgot to out them back in stereo for the next bulletin. It's better to accidently put out the titles in mono than a split track package in stereo!
Or maybe to keep things simple for the late bulletin with less staffing, everything is mono'd as a matter of course
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Yep - news is usually (though not always) edited in split-track and then mono-ed on transmission. In some situations you can dedicate one replay source/line/channel to stereo sources (titles, stings etc.) and the rest to split-track stuff (which is mono), in other situations the sound supervisor (or in some cases automation or playout system) will change the channel set-up based on the content. This can be forgotten, and in some cases it is safer to Mono (with a left-both, right-both)
You occasionally hear the reverse problem of a split track or single track VT played out stereo, so you hear sound only on the left or right, or effects on one side and track on the other.