Inspector Sands' posts, page 7

ITV Programming Thread

ITV closing the SD version of Central East on satellite

https://www.itv.com/news/central/2021-03-15/information-for-itv-news-central-satellite-viewers-with-sd-only-set-top-boxes

Downing Street Briefing Room

You'd hope so, but with this lot it wouldn't surprise me.

If they are leaked photos then it'll be a leak to test the waters... and the reaction has been fairly tepid

The BBC Coat of Arms

A couple of years ago one BBC local station whose patch I regularly drive through had a promo for their rugby coverage that would trigger the RDS travel flag. Happened for weeks, it wasn't just a one-off

Downing Street Briefing Room

Quite. If you're showing off £2.6 million of TV studio then at least remove the vacuum cleaner before you show it off to the world!

TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread

Sounds similar to the old BACC advert playouts where new adverts were played out twice a week from various facility houses to ITV and other commercial TV companies. That was (in the 90's/2000's at least) all sent out and presumably co-ordinated from LWT.

I'm surprised that they'd play out directly from the feed record tape, I'd assume the ones they wanted would be comped into a cart machine or similar, though if something was only getting a couple of plays then probably not worth doing that

Twitter (and other social media) Gold Thread

The Look East self-op desk in action in 1983

Putting the BBC East regional news on the air in 1983 with Judi Lines... pic.twitter.com/TF52RWJ6nW

— The Telly Box (@tellytvbox) March 7, 2021

TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread

They have just been using the graphics for the menu of what was on that feed/tape. That was never meant to be seen on air - just a nice/easy way for their promos department to knock up a list of contents

Presumably Yorkshire fed down a whole load of promos and slides etc for C4 and other regions to use. What you're seeing is the tape they recorded that on fast forwarding rather than playing - looks like it was meant to be a trail for Heartbeat (which was of course a Yorkshire production)

Twitter (and other social media) Gold Thread

He's got links to Kaleidoscope, when they ran Big Centre TV David presented a show for them.



According to the schedule I posted a link to above, the last programme was 20 minutes long

Twitter (and other social media) Gold Thread

That's a bit of TV history that I've never seen before. I wonder where that has come from, I don't think even the ABC-obsessed bods at Transdiffusion seem to have it.

They do have the transmission schedule for their last day though:
http://abcatlarge.co.uk/inside-abcs-last-day/

BBC Newsline

Probably not considering the fire alarm in Salford went off about 9 hours after it happened

Piers Morgan to leave GMB

I haven't seen one, or heard about one happening for a long while. I always thought they looked awful - bad choice of colour and font. They don't have the gravitas of the old BSC/BCC ones

Piers Morgan to leave GMB

It's more often misrepresentation than privacy. They've always been taken more seriously than the 'I didn't like this' style complaints. Prior to Ofcom personal complaints like those were handled by a seperate regulator, the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) who also dealt with serious issues of taste and decency - things escalated from the broadcasters, the ITC and the Radio Authority

Going back futher than that, personal complaints were handled by another organisation - The Broadcasting Complaints Commission. So there were several different organisations handling complaints, the BSC and the BCC used to have their rulings broadcast after episodes of the relevant programmes.