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cue dots

marksi posted:

There is a rumour that at least one channel controller had a Presfax display in their living room so they could see what was happening next and make a phone call to change it if they so wished...


There was an incident back in the 70s when someone at LWT succeeded in making a Presfax decoder, which they used so they could juggle their junction times in a competitive manner during the Saturday night entertainment sequence. Word got back to the Beeb and they ran at least one Saturday evening with incorrect timings showing on Presfax so as to confuse LWT. The BBC regions were pre-warned to add or subtract the appropriate amount from the Presfax timings to get the true picture.
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cue dots

The Nurse posted:
I heard that on ITV the dots went off exactly 5" before the break was due to start because that's how long the VT machines playing the ads would take to start.


ITV's used to go off at 7secs to go, as that was the run up time for the Telecine machine, playing out the ads from film !

Markski posted:
Of course there is always the option of doing the anno, closing the mic, opening talkback and yelling at them, but that's not really very neat...


Even less neat in the days of the confused BBC regional announcer who forgot he was doing TV that day, not radio. In those days radio faders were down for open and up for close, whereas TV ones were the opposite. Hence the junction which was entirely silent, save for the words "RUN VT" Razz
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Broken News

Spencer For Hire posted:
just cutting away when they'd run out of ideas for a particular segment.


Monty Python had that down to a fine art 30 years ago!

Spencer For Hire posted:
I really don't see how they're going to stretch this to six episodes.


Yes, I felt I'd really seen it all after 15 minutes. I wish them well with it, because it's in a good cause. The absurdities of rolling news are ripe for picking.
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Red Bee Media, formerly BBC Broadcast

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Pam Masters, CEO of Red Bee Media, said ......everything we do across the company is ultimately about stories.'


Hey, Mr Storyteller. Tell us a story. Can we have the one about the woman who wasted millions on crap automation systems and got away with it? That's one of my favourites......
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The dancers on BBC1

tweetypie posted:
I think the BBC should make an ident as a farewell one for the dancers. .


Lovely idea! How about Capoeira with just the rooftop and two pairs of hands holding on to the edge for dear life? Or Skateboard with the boarders lying in a crumpled heap on the ground, being tended to by paramedics?
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Old TV slides

noggin posted:
in the case of SlideFile hardly resembled a computer at all. No keyboard or VDU - just an LED display and a numeric keypad with a couple of extra buttons anda fader!


I loved Slide File! A really good bit of kit to use under pressure (assuming you did actually have the images you needed loaded in the first place!!!). No unnecessary complications and that simplicity made it really easy to change your plan half way through a junction if things were going "off piste".
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Old TV slides

Some places had a device with two metal wheels, with slots for the slides arranged round the circumference. You could cut to one, make the other one move on, then cut to it, etc etc. However if one wheel jammed, your sequence would go wrong. Add in the effect of panicky multiple button presses and random freeing of the jammed wheel, and a complete shambles could easily follow on-screen!
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CA's talking at inappropriate moments

james2001 posted:
Instead we have TV which can be as low as 2Mbps and radio between 64 and 128kbps

They had high hopes for quality at the outset of DAB, but then the reality dawned that punters aren't convinced to adopt new technology by promises of technical quality. Content has to be the driver.
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CA's talking at inappropriate moments

tvarksouthwest posted:
Can the makers of the special not insist the BBC shows the programme "as is"?


Presentation are in charge of how the programmes go out and which bits get talked over. The programme makers could make a request, but it's not their decision.
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BBC TV coverage of the Proms

Agreed! Those big purple blocks were awful and completely ruined the framing of the shots.

Let's hope they revert to being an "optional extra".
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Dead Ringers Cock-Up

Dan posted:
Was it the same announcer on the slide?

Yes!
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Children's BBC Broom Cupboard

Westy2 posted:
did 'Broom Cupboard'/OOV presentation ever fail itself , because every time any programme went down, you could always get the 'Broom Cupboard' / OOV output to air?

Those old Pres suites were very reliable. If the main gallery mixer died you could still use "Emergency Cut" to get sources - including the Broom Cupboard / Announcer Booth to air. Or you could bypass the gallery altogether and put the Announcer Booth in control of everything. If the Announcer's area died, you could plug up a lip mic in the back of the gallery and announce from there. And if things were really desperate you could move to NC3 !!